Doodles have a natural hybrid vigour HOWEVER they need to be breed carefully to ensure we protect these fantastic evolving breeds. This means that health testing is essential. Hip scoring and Eye Testing of Labradors, Poodles and Labradoodles is a minimum. For a poodle parent SA testing (skin disorder) is also required.

Poodle Stud - for Labradoodle girls for a curlier, backcross litter, or pedigree bitch e.g Labrador, for F1 doodle.

All litters using our poodle stud can be advertised on our site and we will assist with puppy adoption as we have a waiting list. If you wish to advertise a litter on this page please e-mail me for fees. E-mail is ukdoodles@aol.com. Scout has pups available sired by him - small standard F1 pups scroll down for links and details.

Our breeding quality pups

We do not usually sell our pet puppies for breeding. However, if you wish to breed from one of our pups then this has to be expressly agreed with us. A breeding pup needs to be specifically chosen as the very best of the litter which will contribute to the evolution of the breed. Health testing may have been conducted already - if so then this means that we are confident that the pup (male or female) is suitable for breeding. However, this also means that the pup will be at least 20 weeks old usually older before adopted as we need a specialist vet to conduct a series of tests (nothing painful) and get satisfactory results back from the USA. If a breeding pup is sold at 8 weeks then we cannot possibly guarantee that they will pass their tests though of course we can demonstrate testing of parents.

When buying a pup (male or female) its imperative that you ensure parents are screened and whether the pup is of the best quality to contribute to evolution of the labradoodle breed. Consider a contract with the breeder making it clear what happens in the event that the pup fails its health screening if bought as breeding quality.

New to breeding?

If you are new to breeding then please do some research (and some health testing) before commencing. Ensure you have the right equipment like a whelping box, consider the use of pig rails to stop pups getting squished and think of a non-slip surface for them to learn to walk on (not lino, ceramic tiles etc) and plan how to stop 8 active puppies from wrecking the house!!! A giant puppy pen is essential. For mum's safety please read up on whelping including the possible complications, how to spot them, and what to do if pup is stuck or mum is tired/distressed. Get advice from local breeders, maybe one will come sit with you on the day (or more likely all-night..). Find the number for your local emergency vet ideally with ambulance service. Pups typically start arriving during the night or just before the school run so think of all contingencies. Raising pups is physically exhausting especially if there are complications or hand-rearing (feeds non-stop around the clock) and I wont even start on the cleaning.... Remember the practicalities as well - such as notifying the taxman of any income, organising clinical disposal necessary for soiled bedding/newspaper, worming, bottles, reducing toxocara risk, vetting puppy homes, etc etc etc.

Pedigree software

We use and can highly recommend the Breeders Assistant pedigree software program to all our friends. We've found it to be the easiest pedigree program to use and it produces fabulous fully customizable pedigrees. We use it to produce all our pedigrees, including those on this web site. Click here for further information.

Breeding books

This is a good book covering equipment, whelping complications, c-sections, handraising, weaning and socialising. Its an american book so the resources are mostly irrrelevant but it's easy to read and has step by step photos of birth. For some reason my copy has a different front cover from the amazon copy, but author is definitely Muriel P Lee.