Grace's milk came in last night, they are all gaining weight. They are such gorgeous little gals and guys, still look small. Conner is the largest this morning, at 15oz. Colby and Cory are 14oz, Claudia is 14.3. Carly starting to gain this morning is 13.7oz, Claire is 12.3, Collette is 12.6, two smaller is Cova 11.5 and Cara 11.6, Courtney weighs in at almost 1/2 the size of Conner at 9.1oz. We had to compare to make sure she was Courtney so she really is growing rapidly.
Of course the puppies will change immensely before they go to their aptitude testing and turn 8 wks old, we just keep watching their growth and take note of their personalities.
Last litter (Grace bred to a 21" male) our largest girl was one of the last puppies to go, at 12 wks old she ended up weighing a little more but was an inch shorter. Big boy Blake (now Oliver) is still large, Roxy is a small refined standard poodle and changing color first that we know of. The 2nd largest cream boy is larger than we thought, the smallest cream boy is about 40#. Out of five puppies only three people keep in touch.
I hope everyone will keep in touch from this litter, it helps us know that they are loved and well cared for and we can track their size and how they change colors and grow. It helps with subsequent litters for size, color and health. It's interesting to know what they like to do and how much training their owners are interesting in doing.
This is Everad's first litter. We consider Grace one of our big girls being a small standard at 50#. We are so happy with the size and quality of this litter (maybe I've already said that?, but we really are). The super refined puppies might grow and be long legged, the heavy puppies might be of average size, most of the puppies will change once they leave the litter.
We got Everad at 10 months old. He was raised by Julie Reed of Tiara Standard Poodles in La Jolla. She's an amazing women and loves her dogs. She's a professional groomer, expert advisor for AKC for 20 years, vet assistant, has shown dogs since she was very young for her grandmother. It's in her blood and it's amazing what she knows, we feel honored to know her so well and consider her a friend.
Everad came from having lots of intact male dogs around and him being the puppy at 10 months old. He got here and he was the only male, I guess his hormones kicked in, he grew an inch in six months. Julie was surprised he grew to 18".
Poodles are very adaptable animals. They will change from us and our home to you and your home. They say, the first two weeks is our influence, after two weeks, you and your environment is what the puppy will become.
Our very first kleinpudel was our Mitzi (2007, she's on the photo gallery). We put a deposit on the litter before the parents were bred, it was their first litter. There was one girl (Mitzi) and four boys. There was one very large boy and a tiny boy, Mitzi was the darkest apricot and the next smallest puppy from the litter. We brought her home at 8wks, we loved and adored her, she was small (much like Courtney), very talkative, spoiled from day one. We geneticas and health screened her at two years old, she got an A++ with her health and genetic testing. We were thrilled and eager to have her first litter. We took her to the breeder wth the male and she thought breeding her to a miniature due to her size would be better. She was a fertile myrtle and conceived seven puppies. Unfortunate things happened due to her size and one puppy died 1/2 way into the pregnancy. We didn't know for weeks later and we had to have an emergency c-section and lost the litter and lost Mitzti's reproductive abilities.
Since then, we got Joaquin, Mitzi's brother. We went back to the breeder and asked her for a male puppy, one that would be larger than Mitzi. From her knowledge and being Joaquin from their fourth litter, she gave us Joaquin as a daddy look alike puppy that will be about 17-1/2" and 25#. His personality is much different from Mitzi's. He's more like their sire's and Mitzi's was more like their dam. We do recognize a lot the same with the two of them though. They both are talkers. Joaquin is the noisiest of the household as in wanting to be with us and will make some racket when he feels to far away, however, don't confuse that with anxiety, he doesn't have problems with that. His body is much different than Mitzi's. He lives to eat, he's more rough and tough but a character like his sister.
In their parent's 2nd litter after Mitzi, the puppies were all small standards. We had the opportunity seeing them. They were huge next to Mitzi's litter. The 3rd litter had five boys that were also the mid size kleins like Joaquin's litter. Isn't it interesting that their parents had one litter of small standards rather than kleins?
With each litter we learn more about what our poodles will throw. I expected only a few small Everad type puppies, today? I see most Everad size puppies. I am also a litle surprised we got three creams and only two blacks, the rest silver/blues.
From the color spectrum of this litter, black poodles and white poodles are the basic color.
The blues and silvers and creams are diluted from black and white. How much they will turn color is still a guess, but it looks like we have five puppies of varying color of silver/blue. One black male, one black female and three creams. The creams are a diluted brown that is dominant enough to pop up every litter with Everad's family. Breeding Everad with that gene to a silver/blue we got more of the diluted color than more blacks.
Hilde and Everad should have as many blues over blacks, however, her momma has a rainbow of color and we are hoping for a white as well as a brown and several creams from their litter next year.
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