Sunday, January 4, 2015

2015 Puppy Update:
All of our current puppies have been placed in forever families.  We do however have a couple of "pick of the litter" puppies to place from our sire Jasper, who is an F1 English Cream Goldendoodle and two outside females from other breeders, who used him as the stud for their litters.  Ellie, who is a black goldendoodle, gave birth to 12, yes 12 on New Years Eve and we will have one puppy to place from their litter.  Ellie's owner will most likely have a few spots open as well.  Puppies will be $1000-$1200. She had both cream and black puppies and all are wavy to curly. We expect their puppies to be 35-60 lbs at maturity.  ***Ellie x Jasper's pick of the litter puppy has been placed.

Jasper was also bred to another female, Jessie and she delivered 10 English Cream Goldendoodle puppies who have all been placed with forever families.  We decided to place the pick of the litter male and Justice is now living with his forever family in Nashville.

Katey-Jo is an F1 Moyen English Cream Goldendoodle and she is due mid-January and again, we will have a pick of the litter puppy to place from their litter.  They will have a few spots open as well and again, puppies will be $1200.   All coat types are possible and the puppies will be F2 Goldendoodles and will most likely be shades of cream. Katey-Jo is only 28 lbs, so we expect their puppies to be 30-45 lbs at maturity.  ***Katey-Jo x Jasper's pick of the litter puppy is still available for adoption.

UPDATE: Katey-Jo delivered 6 puppies on January 20th, all shades of cream, 3 boys and 3 girls. We have a pick of the litter puppy still available for adoption.  Puppies are $1200.  There is also 3-4 other puppies available from this litter.  Please call or email if you would like an application.

If you are interested in any of these puppies, please message us with your email address so we can send you an application.

We will be repeating our Holly x Jasper pairing in Mid-March, with F2 English Cream Goldendoodle puppies arriving in Mid-May, if timing remains the same.  Their puppies have been very popular and as of today, we only have 2 spots open.  We will open more spots, if available, after they arrive.  We will decide after this litter whether we will retire Holly, or let her have one more litter in 2016 with another sire. Puppies should be 40-60 lbs at maturity.  UPDATE:  Holly decided to come in early and was bred to Jasper the first week in February.  We are expecting puppies to arrive around April 10th. As of now, all 6 reservations for this litter are taken, but we will open up more spots, once they have arrived.  Holly usually has 7-8 in each litter.

In May, we hope to breed Ginger to Teddy our F1b English Cream Parti mini Goldendoodle, for minis from 25-35 lbs, in shades of red, apricot and cream or white.  Both are chocolate factored, and both are parti-factored, so there is also a slight chance of some chocolate and a high probability of parti-colors/markings.  5 of the 6 spots are still open for this litter as of today.  Puppies should arrive in July and will be ready in September for their forever families.  Stay tuned for updates, in the event she comes in earlier than anticipated.

In July we will be breeding Maci Mae and Teddy again and should have mini-parti-doodles arriving sometime at the end of September 2015, ready for families at the end of November. Puppies will be 20-35 lbs. at maturity. Only one spot still open for this litter.

We will possibly be looking for guardian families for females from each of our 2015 litters and could possibly have one male to place in a guardian home as well.  If you are interested in applying to be a guardian family, please contact us for more info.  Guardian families receive a pick of the litter puppy at very little cost and we will use them in our breeding program when they reach 2 years of age.

Our puppies are socialized from birth by us, our 5 children who are still at home, our 2 grandchildren and by Steve's mom, who is age 90.  She loves to cuddle with the puppies and our adult doodles too.  Maci and Teddy especially love Dorothy.  Many of our puppies have had therapy potential and several are in the process of being trained for therapy and companion work.  We believe in donating or reducing fees for special needs families whenever we can, but cannot for every family that asks always.  If we "donate" a puppy, we ask that the family still pay our $300 deposit fee and sign a contract, to show their commitment to the puppy.  Our puppies are born in our home, usually in our family room, and not in kennels, barns, or out in a dog run.  We practice Early Neurological Stimulation from birth and this is done by us as well as our children.  We like to wait until the puppies are closer to 6 weeks of age, whenever possible, to ensure coat types, as they seem to change around 5-6 weeks of age, for all generations past the F1 or first generation Goldendoodles.  We post literally hundreds of photos on our Facebook page weekly, as they grow and include info on their budding personalities and videos as often as possible.  We homeschool our 3 youngest, so someone is with our dogs and puppies at all times.

We hope this answers some of the questions you may have about our dogs, breeding program and our family.  If you have additional questions, please feel free to call or email, we will answer any other questions, or concerns the best we can.

Wishing you all a blessed and Joyful New Year!
The Burghart family,
Steve, Kim, Grace, Jade, Ava, Jalin, Isaiah, & Dorothy (Alex, Leandra & granddaughter Norah), (Justin and grandson Oliver) and growing!  We have a wedding coming up this summer for one of our older sons and expect our family to continue to grow!  We pray our angel in heaven, Marissa Faith, is always watching over us.  She is always in our hearts and minds.