Welcome
to Ladysmith's Labradors!
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After moving from Holland, where I founded the
Labrador kennel Joe Batt's Arm and bred Labrador retrievers for many years
(26 litters), and settling in the South of France, where I live and work
(writing, painting) since a couple of years, I will start a new Labrador
kennel here: Ladysmith's Labradors.
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Don't expect too much right now; I'm only
just starting and I'm about to buy a male puppy, with a great pedigree
and fabulous blood lines. As soon as we're settled in the countryside near
Nice (right now I'm living in the city), I will buy two or three female
puppies, also with great blood lines, so my kennel will be a very small
scale enterprise.
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Ladysmith's Labrador kennel will be a hobby.
But breeding Labradors (almost) always has been, and will be for sure,
a hobby that is practised in the most professional way.
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Please feel free to bookmark this website
and come back every now and then, to keep yourself informed about the developments.
Maybe one day you will come to the French Riviera and treat yourself to
a real Ladysmith's Labrador puppy! :-))
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Ladysmith's
owner Jack Vanderwyk -
expert
on Labrador Retrievers
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From Wikipedia (search term "Labrador
Retriever"):
Chocolate labradors
Jack Vanderwyk traces the origins
of all Chocolate labradors listed on the LabradorNet
database (some 34,000 labradors dogs of all shades) to eight original
bloodlines. However the shade was not seen as a distinct colour until the
20th century; before then according to Vanderwyk, such dogs can be traced
but were not registered. A degree of crossbreeding with Flatcoat or Chesapeake
Bay retrievers was also documented in the early 20th century, prior to
recognition. Chocolate labradors were also well established in the early
20th century at the kennels of the Earl of Feversham, and Lady Ward of
Chiltonfoliat.
The bloodlines as traced by Vanderwyk each
lead back to three black labradors in the 1880s—Buccleuch Avon (m), and
his sire and dam, Malmesbury Tramp (m), and Malmesbury June (f). Morningtown
Tobla is also named as an important intermediary, and according to the
studbook of Buccleuch
Kennels, the chocolates in that kennel came through FTW Peter of Faskally
(1908).
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In German:
Jack Vanderwyk verfolgt den Ursprung der
schokoladebraunen Labradore die in der LabradorNet Datenbank (circa 34.000
Labradore aller Farben) zurück auf acht ursprüngliche Stammbäume.
Wie dem auch sei, die Farbnuance wurde nicht als eigenständige Farbe
angesehen, bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein. Vor dieser Zeit, laut Vanderwyk,
können diese Tiere zwar zurückverfolgt werden, sie waren aber
nicht registriert. Ein gewisser Grad an Kreuzungen mit Flat Coat Retriever
und Chesapeak Bay Retriever Hunden wurde Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts dokumentiert,
noch vor der Anerkennung. Schokoladenfarbige Labrador Retriever waren in
den Zuchten vom Earl of Feversham und in der Zucht von Lady Ward of Chiltonfoliat
Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts auch stark vertreten.
Der Stammbäume die von Vanderwyk zurückverfolgt
wurden führen zu drei schwarzen Labradoren während den 1880er
Jahren: Buccleuch Avon (männlich) und die von ihm gezeugten Malmesbury
Tramp (männlich) und Malmesbury June (weiblich). Momingtown Tobla
wird auch als wichtiger Bestandteil der Entwicklung der schokoladenbraun
farbigen Labradore vom Stammbuch des Buccleuch Kennels genannt, die braunen
Tiere dieses Zuchtverbandes kamen von Peter of Faskally (1908).
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