Our First Bernedoodle Puppies are Here
The fun continues out here in the Central Oregon High Desert! We recently welcomed the arrival of Yose’s litter, which is our first litter of Bernedoodle puppies. Honey’s Sweets litter went home this weekend, finding homes all across the west from Arizona to Washington. Also, Winnie has entered into heat this week, so we are planning to breed her this week for a litter of mini Goldendoodle puppies arriving at the beginning of the year. It’s been a couple weeks full of joy, training, and anticipation; we are excited to share it with you!
Off the bat, lets talk about Yose’s fabulous litter of standard F2 bernedoodles! On October 23rd, Yose delivered 8 beautiful bernedoodle puppies , four females and four males. All of these bernedoodle puppies are tri-colored, and we have one girl and one boy bernedoodle puppy that is also merle. This is coat pattern comes from Remi, the sire of the litter who is also merle. While they all have varying amounts of white in their coats, they all have a base phantom pattern. We had two puppies who needed some special attention right after they were born, because they were a little slow to feed. However, after a couple of days they caught up with the other puppies, and all of these Bernedoodle puppies are doing great and gaining weight. They’ve just about completed our ENS and ESI curriculum, which helps our Bernedoodle and Goldendoodle puppies grow more confident and resilient in their surrounding world. Next, they will begin to receive some new stimulating props, toys, and sounds every day to continue with their exposure cirriculum.
One difference with Yose’s litter is that we are co-whelping them with our neighbor family. Jessica and Kevin have been a part of our community for a couple years, and have experience in animal husbandry. It’s been beautiful to see them welcome Yose into their home, and lovingly care for her and her beautiful bernedoodle puppies. They have three boys who are also involved in the daily care and handling of Yose’s litter. We’ve named this litter after national parks. The four boys are named Zion, Cascades, Denali, and Mesa. The four females are Shenandoah, Sequoia, Smokey, and Glacier.
We did have a bit of a surprise with this litter. Since both Remi and Yose are F1 bernedoodles, we knew that each bernedoodle puppy had a 25% chance of being unfurnished - or having a flat coat. Since this was the case, we tested the whole litter for their furnishing genes, and guess what . . . all the puppies had at least ONE FURNISHING GENE! Needless to say, we were quite surprised by this. We had a couple people on our waitlist who were hoping for a unfurnished, flat-coated Bernedoodle, so they’ll wait for our next litter. That just goes to illustrate how probabilities are just probabilities, and things can end up quite differently. All in all, we’re excited for these beautiful bernedoodle puppies, and are excited to see this litter flourish!
This past week, all of Honey’s Sweets medium Goldendoodle puppies went home! We had four of her puppies go home and Friday, four of the goldendoodles went home on Saturday, and the final puppy met their forever family on Monday. It’s always a beautiful thing to see these Goldendoodle puppies meet their new families. These puppies went to families around Portland Oregon, Seattle Washington, and even Phoenix, Arizona! We had the opportunity to fly Charley down to Phoenix to meet their new family, and she did so great in the airplane. She slept quietly under the seat in front of me. Some people were surprised that they had no idea there was a puppy on the plane when they saw me leave with the goldendoodle puppy in the carrier. It was a wonderful trip, and I also didn’t mind a brief dose of 70 degree temperatures!
As we sent off one litter of goldendoodle puppies, and welcomed a litter of bernedoodle puppies, our mini Goldendoodle momma Winnie began her heat cycle this week! We will pair her with Luca, so we would be expecting mini goldendoodle puppies maturing to around 20-30 pounds, with red and apricot abstract coats. We are testing her progesterone levels to accurately time the breeding, and we anticipate it occurring over the next week. This would mean the puppies would be born in the middle of January, and go home in the middle of March.
We’ve had so much fun sharing this joy of these beautiful puppies with friends, neighbors, and our new puppy families. We’re excited to see what the next few weeks hold with Yose’s litter, along with seeing what’s in store in the weeks ahead.
Thanks for joining us on this joyful journey!
Erin and Jay