Breeding Information
Our policies are set in place to not only protect our dogs but yours as well
1. Lockins Take Priority-
The date in which you leave the deposit, sign the contract and sign the agreements set you in priority. If someone finishes their lock-in process before you…they will be given priority over you in the event that their dog is ready at the same time. So we recommend locking in early.
2. Lockins “lock” the Pricing-
When you lock in our studs for their introductory pricing or special pricing- you are guaranteeing that price. If the price goes up- your price will still be honored. HOWEVER!! If the published price goes DOWN- you will get the lower price! How cool is that?
3. Let us know Day 1
We MUST know Day 1 when your dog goes in heat…not first day of progesterone- day 1 of blood. This allows us to add you to our calendar and help track the heat.
4. Let us know EVERY progesterone number- regardless how low
EVERYTIME you pull progesterone- shoot us a message and give us that number (please do not call with the number we are managing so many things throughout the day we will inevitably not be in front of our calendar to write it down so please send it to us via text, instagram or facebook message 🙂 Giving us these numbers will allow us help track your female and answer any progesterone questions you have.
5. When to Pull Progesterone
We recommend (and require) progesterone be pulled between Day 5-7…if you wait to pull progesterone later than this you risk missing the heat or missing the LH surge/ovulation. Let us know the number and we can give you our recommendation on when to pull again. Pull early and often 🙂
6. Dont Assume Ovulation
NEVER assume ovulation happens at 5…we are more concerned with the rises or “surge” than we are on the number. If your dog is rising 1 point a day and reaches a 5 then just keeps rising 1 point…that wasnt ovulation. Ovulation is more about the jump in numbers vs the singular number.
7. Give us numbers by 12:00 PM St. Louis Time – CST
We need to know numbers as early as possible so we can plan for the unexpected. Please pull numbers and give us these numbers by this time so we can plan accordingly. We cannot guarantee same day shipments if numbers are given after this time. Lets make this process as stress-free as possible and get our numbers done early and often 🙂
8. We don’t use a vet for collections
Veterinary Hospitals are where typically sick animals are. We LOVE and APPRECIATE our vets…however we will NOT have our dogs collected at a veterinary hospital. This exposes our dogs unnecessarily to anything that may be at the vet hospital, we only utilize the vet for c-sections, puppy checks and shots, and of course sick animals…but we do not take our studs to the vet to be collected. We are happy to send you video of the collection under the microscope so you can see the concentration and quality.
9. Progesterone
We REQUIRE that you pull progesterone on your female- we will not do breedings or ship semen based on days in heat or how your female is acting. We will only send semen based on progesterone.
10. In Person Breeding Hours
We are flexible on our hours as we understand you are coming from a long ways for these breedings…but please understand we have a family. We would like to keep the hours between 10am-6pm when possible. Please communicate with us- we can be flexible and make hours work but please try to stay between these hours when possible. We spend our time on the AIs- please plan to be at the clinic for at least 30 minutes for the process to be completed.
11. Shipping
We have an EXCELLENT success rate with shipped semen! We recommend utilizing same-day cargo shipping- we guarantee the shipment when using this service. For this we will need the closest airport to you. We have shipping accounts with American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines. We can also utilize Fedex- however we no longer guarantee the shipment to arrive next day as Fedex has let us as well as many other breeders down many times before. The Airlines also give us weekend and Monday delivery options!
Shipping Cost-
- $250 Fedex Priority Overnight (with no guarantee)
- $350 Airlines Cargo- guarantee shipment to arrive