Litter updates and Dog Show Updates

Hello Folks

Well, Dalla is a big as house and Ada is not far behind, Today is the first day that Dalla could safely have her puppies, and so we wait on pins and needles for her to start labour.. ahh new puppies.. what could be more amazing..

How about the Daddy to the litter taking two days of Best of Breeds for another Four CKC points earned towards his CKC Championship, Go Belglen Riddari! Just to show his wonderful Structure and movement.. check out the movement photo of him in the ring on Sunday..

Barks

CERF Update Results, and coming litters plus New Ch Tofra Lagsi of Greenstone photos

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Welcome to this fine raining monday morning at Greenstone Kennel. Well its been a bit since I wrote so will break up a few things into different areas of news.

Lets start with the amazing photos of Ch Tofra Lagsi of Greenstone Kennel, Grandma Sharp outdid herself on these photos, the first one of Lagsi curling himself up for a sleep in Northpole Sherman's bed, nice big bed for a nice big old Ragdoll boy, but not so big when a Icelandic Sheepdog is trying to fit as well :) Show's off Lagsi sweet and snuggly side and his wonderful depth of color in his markings.. I love that Lagsi is such a pretty boy, one of the nicest show marked red/white/black pieds, I have seen over the years.

The second picture cracks me up, this shows Lagsi playful side, he is with string in his mouth convincing Ticky Boo that playing with him is the "BEST" fun LOL..

Thank you so much Grandma Verla for the wonderful photos of Lagsi but also the wonderful happy photos of Ticky -Boo and that handsome Sherman! Everyone looks so very happy and health.

Ch Tofra Lagsi was born in Norway, imported in to the US, where he had two litters under the Aldebaren Kennel Name, and then was imported into Canada and into the Greenstone Kennel at the age of two, and he has been living with Grandma Sharp ever since.

CERF Updates: Tofra Dalla and Greenstone Ada, (upcoming momma dogs) have gotten their CERF Renewals for 2007, for more information on Greenstone CERF results for the past seven years please check out this link. If you have a Greenstone Puppy and it is over the age of two and if you would like to consider getting a CERF exam so I can continue to track the eye health of the breeding lines, I would be grateful. I will look up and find you the nearest CERF vet or CERF clinic in your area to help in this if you are interested.

http://icelandsheepdog.blogspot.com/2007/04/greenstone-cerf-resuls-2001-2007.html

Puppy news:

Dalla is huge!!! I never seen a female this big this early, and the puppies can be felt moving, I was laying with her, she is being a very sucky female, and so both Jason and myself find ourselves stopping many times during the day to just snuggle her.. she seems to need it, but it does not help the work LOL but whatever Dalla needs she gets.. and who could resist her brown eyes and soft muzzle resting on you to see if you might like to stop and give her a snuggle, and she wants a full body hug/snuggle on the coach and then she sighs and closes her eyes in contentment while I give her a very! gentle massage.. spoiled baby she is LOL

I don't know, either the puppies are going to be big, or she has a Big Litter, the most puppies ever born at Greenstone was six, but only five lived.. and I have a feeling that she is going to break that record this time round.

Ada is starting to show now as well, she is the normal size for a female at her stage in the game..

So in keeping with the dogs and their puppies.. I have as always been doing research and found that there was two things that were wonderful for developing smarter puppies in the womb, one is found in the trace minerals in Seaweed, second is found in farm fresh eggs( found in regular eggs to, but at a much reduced rate) and so I have created my expecting mother cookies, well more like a big breakfast snack.

I don't know if you can make this recipe without a farm but you can try if you have a good health food store?

Expecting Cookies and or making smarter puppies

6 Farm Fresh Eggs (I perfer Ducks, as it givens me double the yolk to white, and what I am after is in the yolk)

1 cup whole fresh (just milked) Goats milk

I Tablespoon Fresh Ground Flax seed

1/2 Teaspoon of fresh top of the line Norway ground Kelp

1/2 Traces Gold/Silver/Copper water

The eggs, Milk are beaten together and then the flour is added I start with two cups, and then add the extra's on top and mix together then start adding about half a cup or less till it is a stiff dough, and then I roll it out and place on cookie sheet (make one large sheet, about half an inch high) and I cut it with Pizza cutter into big sqaures and cook for ten min at 350 and then turn oven off and leave all day if possable or over night to harden, the females have been getting this since breeding- 3 cookies per day as snacks.. everyone else gets one cookie per day only.

I got the Flax, Norway Kelpt and Mineral trace water at the health store.

So we will see if it helps, I had read a paper, once I see if I get the effects I am after I will let you know the link to the paper and see if anyone else wants to try it as well.

Well otherwise, life is busy but good, regular farm chores, and lots of work to do, thrilled to have the rain over the weekend and they say rain off and on all week, we can use it, the gardens can use it, the well can use it etc.. but it means can't mow the lawn right now either and it could use it, o well its always a give an take on these things.

Garden is coming along well, enjoying it very much this year..

Spent a great deal of time Grooming dogs this weekend, and a bit of time on runs and training.. Looking forward to the show in Kar's on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd.. I think the dogs will do very well at it..

So that is about it, everyone have a great day.

Barks

Birth of a Puppy

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Hope you are all having a good easter weekend, ours has been interestings.. so on Friday, my momma dog to be, starting hanging out very close with me, she kept going into the crate in the living room and then coming back out again.. hmmmm

Then she tried to climb under the living room sofa, hmmm, she followed me into the bathroom and openned the closet door, reached up and pulled down towels and layed down with a, "just shut the door will you" look on her face.. so they went into the wash, and she followed me back out, well by nine that night, she was asking me to go downstairs and so down we went..

Labour had started, with some signs of contracts off and on, it was a very normal progress, and we had her set up in her birthbox and boy did she give those towels a good dig and pull session to work out her pain..

Finally at just after 11pm, she got down to business, and got quiet and started laying down and really pushing.. well within a few min, that lovely sound happened.. I don't really know how to explain it, but there is a sound to a dog giving birth and It can wake me up within a heart beat if I was dozing, which I was not at this time, so slurp, slurp and baby starts making noise.. Afterbirth is accounted for, and all is going well.. I can see that its a very dark brown baby with lots of white, but otherwise, I am letting momma bond and keeping a close eye on how its going..

At this point, if all is well, I try and stay out of the way.. and within seven min of being born, puppy number one is nursing and momma dog is settling down a bit.. so at this point its time for a puppy check.

So here is my run though

Sex : Female

Color: Yellow Gene

Pattern: White muzzle, wide White blaze, White collar, White Chest and front legs, White socks on rear, white tail tip

Dewclaws : double on rear, single on front

Check for Cleft: negative

Check for sounds of fluid in lungs: negative

Check cord: looking good

Check the rest of the body: normal

Weight : 13.1 oz or just a touch under 400 grams, nice big active baby.

And then back with Momma dog, and I wait, and I wait, and I wait..and I start to doze off and on, and I wait, and I wait.. and finally, at four am, I have to admit that it appears that all is done and well.. and I have my first single litter of puppies!!

One puppy, a lovely puppy to be sure, but what happened to the rest of the litter.. I know that dogs can absorb puppies, and I have had it before but it was still a big surprise to me, she did not look small enough to only have one puppy, and I know that I am going to have some sad puppy owners to be, but I will be breeding for more litters in 2007, but I am afraid that the wait will be a little longer then any of us thought..

I still can't believe that I only have one!

So here are the newborn non-flash blurry photos of little girl, I managed to sneak them when Momma had to go out for a pee, I will take more in a natural light soon. So the puppy is growing and gaining weight well, Momma dog is doing great, eating well, tons of milk, but very much, I only have one, so is very attached to her.. but we are slowly learning to share, I have never had a single puppy to raise, and I would imagine that I will need to learn a bit about if I need to do anything different for her.

Updates to follow on a regular basis..

Barks

Greenstone Puppy Photos

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Things are busy, busy with the coming dog shows, the new births in the barn, spring is in the air and so lots of fun but hard work being done. Dogs are all wonderful, everyone is healthy and happy :) Three new Training classes for agility starting in March, which will take me up to four training times per week plus at home training.

So what I will post today, is one very cute casual photos of the some of the Greenstone Puppies from last year, just hanging out in the yard with us, enjoy.. and hope some of them make you smile

Barks

Spring Litter Planned for Greenstone Kennel

Hello Folks

Just wanted to let you know that Greenstone is planning one spring litter at this time, with most likely one late summer breeding, I am hoping greatly to use Narri from Pineridge Kennels on Greenstone Ada on her late summer heat.. This will be Ada's first litter and I am expecting great things from her.. Right now, I have a waiting list for possable Show/Breeding Puppies, but am actively looking for wonderful Altered Pet homes for the Spring litter.. Expecting Med/Long hair Red/White puppies.

If you are interested in getting on my waiting list for a possable Show/Breeder or a Pet Puppy, or a Performance Puppy, please let me know at

isdpuppies@hotmail.com

I will send you a copy of my puppy application and be very happy to answer any questions in regards to the difference possable planned litters for the coming year, and possable breeding plans for the next couple years.

Barks