Meadow Creek Labradors: A bit about our Labs!

MEADOW CREEK P'UPDATE!!!

The Chocolate male, two black females, the yellow girl and a yellow male are now reserved. Thank you to the 5 families who have already chosen their new pup! There are two black males, and two yellow males still available.

The pups, eyes, and ears have opened. They are beginning to walk around better, play, bark, growl, chew on each other, and their teeth are arriving! It is also time for another toenail clipping. They love to give licks with their wide tongues. Its pretty funny since their coordination is still way off!

Wednesday, Jan 30th will be 3 weeks. I will weigh them again, give an update as to their progress and they will have their first food mash. This consists of an egg, dog food, (diamond naturals, "extreme athlete") milk replacer, and water, blended to a mash.

We have a new page for our puppies pictures. I will start moving a few of the ones on this page, since it takes so long to load. We also have a few new pictures of Ranger and Goldie on there that turned out very nice.

www.meadowcreekpuppies.blogspot.com

Pup growth Weights

Goldie and Ranger's puppies are here!
Whelped: January 9 2008!!

Here are the 1st three weeks of weights starting from original birth weights.

Coat ~ Sex~ Ribbon color~ Birth~ Day 1~ Day 2~ 1 wk 3 days~3 WEEKS

1.Yellow Male, black ribbon 14oz~ 16oz~ 20oz~ 3lb 3~6lbs *Reserved

2. Black Male, Yellow/(l-green) 16oz ~ 16oz~ 20 oz~ 2lb 4~5lb 12oz

3. Black Male, Red 14.2~ 14 oz~ 17oz~ 2lb 9~5lbs 12oz

4. Black Female, Pink 15.3~ 18 oz~ 3lb 8 ~ 6lb 12oz~*Reserved*

5. Yellow Female, Orange 14oz~ 14oz~ 18oz~ 2 lb 8~5lbs 8oz *Reserved

6. Chocolate Male, no ribbon 16oz~ 18oz~ 20 oz~ 3lb 8 ~6lbs 13oz*Reserved*

7. Yellow Male, Brown 13oz ~13.5 ~16oz ~3 lbs~6lbs

8. Yellow Male, lite Blue/(lav) 14oz~ 16oz~ 17oz~ 2lb 8~6lbs 3oz

9. Black Female, Green 15.2 ~15oz~ 20oz~ 3lb~6lbs 8oz *Reserved*

Thank you to those who have reserved their future companion. May God Bless you and your dogs life together. It is our prayer that your pup, will be, "that dog of a lifetime", you've always wanted. Lord Willing! Deo Volente!

Monday, January 1, 2007

A bit about our Labs!

"We are a small-scale, breeder with a reputation for producing sound, well-balanced, quality, Labrador Retrievers."

Our Dogs:

Sergeant Ranger Airborne

Our Black male, is of the English bloodlines and confirmation show type. Standing at 88 lbs, he carries both yellow and chocolate recessive genes. His confirmation is correct, very stoutly muscled, having a nice length in body, well set out barrel with no excessive fat or skin. His head is blocky with a nice nose length and thickness. His neck, shoulders and hips are awesomely made for strength. His eyes are very expressive.

Ranger's lineage includes many champions in show confirmation, master, junior, hunter, companion dog, working dogs, and pointed champions that you can easily find on the internet. He is from a wonderful line of good to excellent, OFA certified hip pedigrees. Ranger's hips also are OFA certified, "Good", as well! His temperment is loving, loyal, willing to work, very forward, having a straight, proud carriage keen sense of sport, and endurance.

OFA Link to Rangers certification:
http://www.offa.org/results.html?all=LR-164882G63M-NOPI&x=4&y=3

6 comments:

Meadow Creek said...: No true signs of Pups just yet with Goldie. SHe is over 85lbs of Amazon and has plenty of room to be hidin them.

Lara; February 5, 2007 at 10:36 PM
Meadow Creek said...: Rangers OFA certification of his hips came back listed GOOD. Whew!! Great news!!!; February 9, 2007 at 5:40 PM
tdmfl said...: I have one of the chocolate male labs from Ranger and Sally.; June 24, 2007 at 6:36 PM
Meadow Creek said...: How wonderful to hear from you tdmfl! I would love to see pictures of Rangers pup that you have! Can you send me pictures? I love his babies and want to keep a scrap book as well! Oh and tell me about his/her personality!! Thanks!

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Pedigree for Sergeant Ranger Airborne
black

Other Champion's included in Ranger's Paternal line is:
CH Scrimshaw Trappist John,
CH Exmoor's Play It Again,

Maternal:
CH Charway Crofter,
CH Hennwood Zachary Alastair,
American & Canadian CH Monarch's Black Arrogance, CD WC
CH Monarch's Dusty Chief,
CH Stepamgar's Masai Mara Simba CD JH

Sire Greg's Bo Dixie Gold SN739560/08	Sire Colton's Rebel Gold SN338684/02	Sire Tulsa Sampson of Winroc SF501099 05-90	Sire Winroc Tulsa Minor SE828204 10-88 Chocolate
			Dam Miss Mocha Magic SD874897 12-84 Chocolate
		Dam Andy's Golden Trigger SF694833 Yellow	Sire Ebony Magic Collier SF251776 03-90 Black
			Dam Jessica Amelia Lawson SF014105 04-88 Yellow
	Dam Wayne's Dixie Blue SN336811/03 Black	Sire Lord Of Lake Murray SF 633570 08-94 Yellow	Sire Ash Tree Farm's Henri Boy SE584834 10-88 Yellow
			Dam Lady Georgette of Dozier SE751970 10-88
		Dam Megan's Happy Hunter SM835841/02 01-93 Black	Sire Duke of Patten SD 777125 05-85 Chocolate OFA27G
			Dam Amber's Black Cinder SF643838 05-90 Chocolate OFA67G
Dam Riverchase Brandy Rose SN634628/05 Chocolate	Sire Stepamgar's Kool Hand Luke SN283106/03 05-97 AKC DNA #V110569	Sire Hennwood's Great Expectation SM749620/01 06-92 Chocolate	Sire This Bud's for Stepamgar SF10063 05-90 Chocolate OFA67G
			Dam Steamgar's Maggie O'Hennwood SF120358 07-90 Black
		Dam Stepamgar's Chablis SF494672 08-91 Yellow OFA28G	Sire Kellygreens Wind Ninja CD SE529179 05-87 Black OFA30F
			Dam Kellygreens Dandelion Wine SE699681 04-88 Yellow OFA54G
	Dam Hennwood's Fannie Mae SN320721/01 03-98 Black	Sire Hennwood's Tydd Beauchamp SN232429/05 05-96 Black	Sire Windhill's Super Blackhawk SN109444/01 06-95 Black
			Dam Hennwood's Apple Brown Betty SN19487/02 6-95 Chocolate
		Dam Hennwood's Bonnie Brianna SN226438/01 05-96 Black	Sire Abby Downs Great Alexander SF167658 06-89 Black OFA41G
			Dam Hennwood's Lucy of Sumo's Simba SM891335/06 09-93 Yellow OFA26E

This pedigree page was built for free at SitStay.com

Goldie's Lockz o' Gold

Our yellow female, is of the American type and stands 103 lbs at 2 yrs. Her lineage includes many successful gun dogs and is a great grand-daughter of a master Hunter on her paternal side. Her conformation includes, large bone, nice soft coat, strong, with a confident straight gait. Goldie has yet to have her hips certified due to her just turning 2. OFA will not certify a dogs hips until they are over 2 years old. However, her MOM'S hips are OFA certified Good

http://www.offa.org/display.html?appnum=1174756#animal

Goldie is a exceptionally loving, gentle yet powerful, so very sweet, with goof-ball antics. She is very willing to listen, and absolutely hates to disappoint. She likes to watch airplanes and birds. Goldie's quality of disposition, strong bone, and pristine coat, is consistently passed on to her pups. She produces healthy, correct, quality pups, of all three colors.

Puppies are due January 11th 2008!!

Pedigree for Goldie's Lockz O'Gold
Yellow

Sire Duke's Bocephus Gwinn SN53684601 11-00 Choc AKC DNA #V258664	Sire Bo Didley's Duke SN30851806 5-97 Black	Sire Fenwood Bo-Didley MH SM78012203 5-93 Black AKC DNA #V170762
		Dam Simpson's Midnight Blessing SN14823105 09-96 Black
	Dam Butterscotch Bessy SN 22082410 05-97 Yellow	Sire Crawford's Canseco SF927603 03-96 Black
		Dam Canseco's Candy SN00233904 04-95 Yellow
Dam Cooke's Maggie Lou SR02403216 10-05 Yellow OFA Hips "Good"	Sire Little Duke Of The Farm SN60851903 10-02 Yellow	Sire Millers Alexander The Great SN15824311 04-99 Black
		Dam Millers Billy Joe Velvet SN43885404 4-99 Black
	Dam Nature's Majestic Wonder SN 84453005 10-02 Yellow	Sire Rex Rhee McWine SN6193981 10-00 Chocolate
		Dam Daisy Reeh McWine SN34909004 3-99 Yellow

This pedigree page was built for free at SitStay.com

Our Lab History

We got our first Black Lab, "Nig", in the fall of 1986 and have loved them ever since! He was the best I have ever known. Nig could hunt dove, rabbit, ducks, coon, stray dogs, and protect us from copperhead snakes! He was a small dude and didnt take nothin off of any other dog! I loved that boy! He was a legend all around our area. Since then, we have kept Labs. Later on after Nig succumed to Endio Carditis, a disease he caught from a tick, my husband allowed me to purchase another black lab named Champ. He was a sweet loving friend. Loved to race us on the 4 wheeler and the horses! After him, We bought Charlie. Right away I knew this boy was destined to be something more than a country dog. He was just too smart! So, after careful consideration and unselfish tears, we donated our beloved Charlie to the "Dogs for the Disabled", service. Their trainer ranked him on her top 4th disposition she had ever trained for the service. We are so proud of him! The Lord above has blessed us so much. That was 8 years ago and he is still working! We now are embarking on breeding our two top labs, Ranger, and Goldie. Upon their disposition and pedigree, and God willing, we plan to breed for service dog work and sell the others for companion dogs. However, we sure would love to see our dog's pups in the show ring or the field bringing back a duck as well!

Puppies Born 1/09/08

If you would like to **reserve a pup from this litter, or have questions about our dogs, please contact us at:

Cell: 864.872.5135
home: 864.575.2813
email: www.iluvmelabdogs@yahoo.com

**Meadow Creek's puppies are sold with

a portfolio containing:

Our Limited Health Warranty/Guarantee,

AKC FULL registration,

a copy of the puppies certified pedigree,

the pup's veterinarian diary,

a helpful SAFE meds. tip sheet for non serious illnesses.

a list of dangerous/fatal over the counter meds and foods.

puppy training information print out

list of supplies that you will need and recommendations of food, toys, chews, wormers ect.

Our Breeding Mission

Being a small-scale breeder, we strive to produce QUALITY Labradors, in both health and personality.

We have been fortunate that God above has helped us in finding 2 of the best Labs around confirmation and genetic wise to use in our program. As part of our family members, our labs are tirelessly cared for here, while in combination of a close relationship with our veterinary facility. At any time anyone may ask for our veterinarians references concerning our labs quality mental and medical history.

We strive to uphold the AKC breed standards, and breed solely to improve and maintain the excellent qualities that are associated with Labrador Retrievers.

We have many praises from satisfied families who have our pups in their homes. These same qualities are the ones that endeared this breed to labrador fanciers from the beginning.

We give God all the Glory for enabling us to have such a wonderful pair of dogs and produce such successful puppies!

--Lara Martin
Award Winning Artist
Kennel Manager

A Matter of Breeding Ethics

Canine genetics is a fascinating area of science. Experimental interbreeding performed by early researchers like Little and Whitney provided many answers to modes of inheritance of many traits including but not limited to coat color. Such purposeful interbreeding was carried out to increase breeders' knowledge and therefore assist them in producing better pure-bred dogs. But what exactly is a better pure-bred dog? Because opinions and tastes may vary widely from one breeder to the next, if left to the individual breeder, one particular breed could become so diversified that members of that breed may look and act nothing like other members. That is why the American Kennel Club, working with the breed parent club, sets the standard for each breed. The standard describes physical and temperament characteristics which are inherently typical of a dog of that particular breed and therefore serves as a guideline for breeders.

As with early breeders who cultivated the traits of the Labrador breed through careful propagation of desirable traits and elimination of faults through selective breeding programs, breeders today follow the breed standard to ensure that the qualities of the breed are preserved. Therefore, at this time, traits such as black and tan, brindling, and silver coloration are considered serious faults of the breed and purposeful selection of these traits for breeding purposes is not recommended. Additionally, the American Kennel Club recognizes only Labradors which are black, chocolate, or yellow. The AKC standard for the Labrador specifically states: "The Labrador retriever coat colors are black, yellow and chocolate. Any other color or combination of colors is a disqualification."

A Labrador History Lesson!

There were two types of dogs hard at work in Newfoundland by the early 1700s. Both were called Newfoundland or St. John's dogs. One was a heavyweight contender with a long, ponderous coat. This dog, used primarily for draft work – though he was not opposed to getting his feet wet retrieving – was the greater Newfoundland (or the greater St. John's). In four-dog teams it hauled carts loaded with 200 to 300 pounds of fish and the driver of the cart. Greater Newfoundlands pulled carts to market in their "native" land and in England as well. This greater Newfoundland, odds are, is the ancestor of the modern breed of the same name.

The lesser Newfoundlands (or lesser St. John's) were smooth-coated black dogs of smaller build. The constant companions of fishermen, lesser Newfoundlands were unrivaled at retrieving game in the field and fish in the freezing waters of the Labrador Sea. They were also unrivaled for their hardiness, serving as tow barges when necessary, and for their stamina, often working 20 hours at a time. When they were off duty, they played with the fishermen's children.

St. John's (or Newfoundland) dogs, greater and lesser, crossed the Atlantic to England regularly in the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries. When England passed a law in 1856 forbidding the use of dogs for draft work, British interest in the greater St. John's lessened.

Another British law – the Quarantine Act of 1885 – put paid to the further importation of the lesser St. John's dog, but for some decades before that a handful of British estate owners had regularly imported St. John's dogs and bred them to produce several strains of retrievers. One of these breeders, the third Earl of Malmesbury, was probably the first person to apply the name Labrador to one of those strains. In 1887 the earl wrote to a friend, "We always called mine Labrador dogs, and I have kept the breed as pure as I could from the first I had from Poole [Harbour], at that time carrying on a brisk trade with Newfoundland. The real breed may be known by their having a close coat which turns the water off like oil, above all, a tail like an otter."

When Labrador retrievers first appeared in British Kennel Club's events during the latter part of the 19th century, the retrievers category included curly- and flat-coated dogs, as well as other varieties. Indeed, dogs from retriever litters were eligible to compete with the variety they resembled most; but by 1903 the Labrador had been established as a separate, true-breeding strain, and it was granted separate registration status by the kennel club.

Recrossing the Atlantic

During World War I, Labradors crossed the Atlantic again, this time bound for the United States, where the AKC, following England's lead, had a catch-all classification for retrievers. When the AKC began registering Labradors as a separate breed in 1917, the first name entered in the stud book was Brocklehirst Nell, a bitch imported from Scotland. Nell was shortly joined by many others of her breed. Often they were accompanied by their Scottish trainers who were brought over by wealthy Americans interested in breeding Labradors. The affinity of the Scots for the Labrador was enormously responsible for developing the breed's hunting versatility and for popularizing Labradors in this country.

A Dog for All Reasons

Hunters, of course, have always admired the Lab for its hardiness, great enthusiasm for water work and all-weather suitability. Centuries of selective breeding had bequeathed the Labrador the ideal body for land or water work. The crisp guard hairs of the Labrador's coat easily shed burrs and brambles, and the dense undercoat makes the dog practically impervious to water. The Labrador's tail, referred to as an otter tail, serves as an efficient rudder capable of aiding the dog in the strongest currents. This unusual tail is thick and rounded in appearance, completely covered with extremely dense hair.

The Lab's versatility and skill as a hunting dog are enough to secure its reputation anywhere it goes, but its affable disposition is what makes the Lab a superstar. While hunters were enthusing over their Labs' prowess, the hunters' families – and other families, too – were discovering that when Labs were not out in the field, they were ready and willing companions. With that discovery doors were opened to Labs in countless American households.

Youthful Exuberance

Lest anyone think Labs are perfect, we are obliged to mention puppyhood – a time not without trials and tribulations. Lab puppies can be gawky, uncoordinated and enthusiastic. An interesting combination. Lab puppies will track indoors all the mud formerly in the yard and deposit most of it on your sofa. Their highly developed tails – great swimming aids and a barometer of the dogs' unceasingly great attitude – are also lethal weapons, capable of sweeping a table clean of every expensive bauble you have collected through the years.

Not only is puppyhood a trying time for Lab owners, it is also a long time. Labs do not become the mellow fireplace ornaments that Hallmark and other greeting-card companies portray them as until they are two to three years old. Fortunately, you will find it difficult to stay angry with your gawky youngster. Those big brown eyes will easily convince you that whatever just happened was all a mistake. Besides, you will already know there is not a vindictive or a spiteful bone in a Lab's body. So if you are prepared to give your Lab plenty of exercise – and if you put your knickknacks out of harm's way – by the time your Lab emerges from its protracted adolescence, it will have long since become an irreplaceable buddy. That buddy could easily be with you for the next 12 or even 15 years. With a friend like that, who needs knickknacks anyway?

Meadow Creek Labradors

Our Dogs

Goldie and her 08' babies

OUR LABCAM!!

***MEADOW CREEK P'UPDATE!!!***

I wuv my mumma!

Pup growth Weights

Monday, January 1, 2007

A bit about our Labs!

6 comments:

Sergeant Ranger Airborne

GOLDIE LOCKZ O"GOLD

My Beautiful Goldie.

Our Lab History

You talkin' lazy!!

U got dat cutest Lil Baby Face!

Lil Black Bear

Echo Sackett Sleepin (3 Weeks)

Choice Shirts

Lil ECHO SACKETT!!

What color of Labrador is your favorite?

About Us!

Our Breeding Mission

Our Labrador Links

Sergeant "Ranger" Airborne

CH Charway Crofter

Anna with Ranger and Baby Goldie

Ranger eager to get the ball!

Bringing the ball back!

Goldie Lockz O'Gold

Goldie as a Pup!

One can see Goldie's wonderful dispostion in this photo.

HERE ARE OUR NEW PUPPY PICTURES!!!

LOVE

Goldie Loves her babies!!

After dinner face.

Girl In Pink

Girl In Pink 2

Choc Boy Yawn

Choc Boy

Yellow Boy

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Male with blue ribbon.

The Nursery.

Say Hi!

Conan

Conan at the park

Lil Ginger!

Ginger

Ginger

Chocolate Chunk!

Awww Conan Asleep!!

Stonewall

Stonewall

Our Lucy

Lucy Again

Lucy

Ranger produces all three colors and size!

A Matter of Breeding Ethics

A Labrador History Lesson!

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