Expected Litters
The Q2 litter was born December 18, 2011. The Q2 litter has been sold. We are currently taking deposits for the R2 litter (Margot II vom Jagdkonig X Hans vom Seilerhaus) expected March 21, 2012 and S2 litter (Comtesse II vom Jagdkonig X Isaac II vom Jagdkonig) expected April 2, 2012. These puppies will be ready to go to their new homes in May of 2012.
About Us
BREEDING PHILOSOPHY
We produce the most highly talented upland and waterfowl dog possible while still having the versatility to be a Prize I utility dog. We are generational breeders. We started with several old and established Deutsch Drahthaar motherlines from northern Germany. We have since strived to produce a consistently better litter of dogs through subsequent generations. We breed for these specific qualities.
1. Natural Ability:
A dog should have an excellent nose and the desire to hunt with you. A dog that points and becomes cautious when it encounters bird scent is easier to train and will be a more reliable pointing dog throughout its life. To have a great hunting dog you need a great nose, and you can't fix a mediocre nose: you must start with a very good nose. Beyond having a great nose, a dog should want to hunt with you. This means that the dog is biddable and hunts close enough that it can pick up on cues from you and pays attention to you while hunting. It makes for a significantly more pleasant and productive hunt.
2. Personality
A successful versatile hunting dog should have a sound character and must be trainable. To us, this means that a dog is first and foremost confident and friendly. There are important genetic tendencies that make a dog confident and friendly. We also properly socialize our puppies from the time they are whelped by handling them, mildly stressing them once a day and exposing them to different people and situations. Trainability brings a young dog to the goal of being a willing worker. Breeding females that we have whelped, raised and trained ourselves to the level of Prize I utility dogs for 5 generations provides us with the knowledge we need to choose the best males that will complement our females. This helps us produce a litter with the highest percentage chance of being a confident, friendly and trainable hunting/companion dog.
3. Form ---Conformation
Our Deutsch Drahthaars are healthy dogs that only go to the vet for routine vaccinations, They are free of chronic health problems, They are free of genetic faults that would restrict them from being certified to be bred in the VDD system. We believe a medium-sized, athletically built dog is best suited for the purpose of upland hunting and most durable for work in the water and forest. Form is listed before hair in the ZR ratings. Form is more important. Great form helps a dog hunt harder and longer, both in a day's hunt and throughout the later years of a dog's life. You can see on the ahnentafels the efforts we have made over the years to breed the dogs with the best conformation possible. This gives you a great chance to own a sound and durable hunter/companion.
4. Coat
We think a dog needs a dense, hard coat of a proper length, and we breed for the most serviceable coat possible with a beard. This means that the coat has an undercoat for warmth in cold weather and has the hardest outer coat possible to counter the burrs and brush that hunters inevitably encounter.
5. Color
We primarily breed dark pigmented braunschimmels, (brown and white/grayish) dogs There are also black and white and entirely brown dogs in the breed, but each of these schwarzschimmel brown dogs are born with automatic breeding restrictions, which is why we stay with braunschimmel dogs.