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Kirby Mountain Black Gold (Pongo) Son of 2000 CNAPC Quick Windstorm |
Labrador Retriever
The Labrador Retriever
is the #1 registered dog with the AKC as well as the #1 dog in America for
hunting. This popularity is not surprising because this dog is extremely smart,
it wants to please its owner, and it adapts well to its surroundings. All of
these factors have contributed to its popularity with search and rescue
activities, with drug and bomb detection units, and of course with the
seeing-eye dog programs.
Our focus at Kirby Mountain
Sporting Dogs is primarily companion/hunting labs. Our labs can join you and
your family in hunting, hiking, swimming, or whatever outdoor activity you’re
interested in along with being well adapted member of the family in your home.
We have built our Labrador Retriever
breeding program from the greatest champions of the field trial game (see Labrador
Retriever Lines below). The reason for
this is twofold: 1 – these labs are extremely smart with uncanny trainability
and 2 – these labs are exceedingly sound physically.
We are very proud of our
Labradors and believe one would fit well into your lifestyle.
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Kirby Mountain American Flyer (Dixie) Daughter
of FC AFC Kelly’s
Midnight Trapper |
Physical Attributes/Health
Our labs are medium sized: 50 –
60 lb. females and 65 – 85 lb. males. All of our breeding stock, male and
female, have been OFA’d and CERF’d.
If we have any problems, whether it is hips, eyes, temperament or trainability,
we do not repeat the breeding.
Our lab
breeding program produces all three
colors of the Labrador Retriever: black, yellow, and chocolate.
Currently we are producing about 60% black,
30% yellow, and 10% chocolate. The black
lab is the strongest gene pool, trains easily, and has the least health
problems. Our yellow and chocolate labs are from a strong black pedigree and
are as sound as our blacks.
Temperament/Trainability
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Kirby Mountain Little
Chocolate Kiss (Litty) Daughter of FC
AFC Kelly’s Midnight Trapper |
Our lab breeding stock has also had extensive training
in obedience and in the field. About 50% of the puppies born here come back for
months of training. This is a tremendous screening tool for us to see how our
breeding program is working.
Our labs do all the conventional tasks such as
hunting upland birds, ducks, and geese, as well as hike, boat, bike, run, and
baby sit the kids! They also do much harder tasks such as help guide professionally many weeks of the year and chase nuisance geese off golf courses and cemeteries. These dogs are a very versatile breed.
Labrador Retriever Lines at Kirby
Mountain Sporting Dogs
As stated earlier, we have built
our breeding program from the lines of the greatest champions of the field
trial game. The progenitors of our stock include these great labs of all time: 1976 NFC AFC San Joaquin Honcho, 1984 NAFC FC
Trumarcs Zip Code, 2x CNAFC Ebonstars Lean Mac, 1982 NFC AFC
Westwind Super Nova Chief, 1996 NFC AFC Storms Riptide Star, and 2000 CNAFC
Quick Windstorm.
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