Lab breeder You have to look at it from our point of view. You may be used to one thing and it may have worked for you but that doesn't mean its what should really be done. We see people come on hre all the time trying to breeed puppies or people that have gotten the puppies crying because they have thousands in vet bills.
* the first thing is your vet could tell you your dog would be a champion but it doens't really mean anything. Vets will tell anyone that there dog is great to breed. it brings them more money and more customers. Your vet can not even do these health tests untill a dog is two so I'm nto sure what he told you. I'm a firm beleiver that these tests need done.
*90 lbs is a little hefty for a lab. this brings a lot of problems and even with health tests passed at two it makes a huge risk for hip dysplasia later in life. If you are breeding for the right reasons you want to breed in standard. Do it because you love the breed-not because soem people who don't,want a bigger lab.
*Any color with choclate in the genes will actually create choclate. Health testing is even mroe needed with choclates because they are the most inbred of the breed. its the only way you get the color. My neighbors bred theirs and the pups are only about a yr old and people have already started asking for money to get hips done. They don't want to pay cuz their femalhas no problems so why should they? they are going to end up being sued and are going to loose a ton but its what happens when you don't even research what you are doing.
*A byb is someone who does not breed dogs to standard,doesn't health test,and sells for insane prices for no reason. You can easilly change all of this. There is no reason you have to breed as soon as you wanted. I didn't see how much you wanted for the dogs but a sure sign of a byb is diffrent prices for diffrent colors. A choclate should be no more than a yellow,especially since more health problems are seen with them. How do you account for the price? Most breeders say its because of health testing(which you won't do) and showing(which I am guessing you are not). Any oen who researched it would come to the conclusion you were a byb. I'm sorry but thats what it comes off as.
My parents bred labs and they didn not helath test BUT this was twenty years ago. they did field tests and not a one died before fifteen. Who can say that for a lab now? My dad looked at getting back into it and can not find a single line that isn't eitheir short lived or has a ton of hx of hip dysplasia. if he would have looked at your program breeding a dog under two he would have never even thought about it.
The thing is that anyone worth giving a pup to will know better than to buy a puppy from a dog that is not even two yet. There really isn't a way aorund it. this is what I show everyone looking for a dog
http://www.chazhound.com/forums/showthread.php?t=787
All that said I love labs and hope you stick around and keep showing us your dogs. Two years is really no time to wait to ensure you have healthy dogs and will get the new pups great owners. It really is worth it.
