Falconwood Rayleigh - Sheepadoodle (Guardian Home)

Rayleigh has been DNA tested as clear and needs to wait until she is over a year old to complete the rest of her testing.  Rayleigh lives in an a wonderful guardian home and we see her often as she comes for holidays almost monthy.  Height: Expected height 60-64cm

Proudly Bred by Falconwood:  This dog was born and raised here at Falconwood and is the result of careful breeding decisions focused on health, temperament and ethical breeding.Weight: Expected

weight 30-36kg

Coat:  Fleece/Wavy non shedding

Type:  Multigen Sheepadoodle - 63% Old English Sheepdog / 37% Standard Poodle

Dam (Mother): Fallon - Sheepadoodle

Sire (Father): North - Old English Sheepdog

 

DNA Health Testing - Laboratory: Embark Veterinary

RESULT - Clear (0 copies detected):

• Chondrodystrophy and Intervertebral Disc Disease, CDDY/IVDD, Type I IVDD (FGF4 retrogene - CFA12)
• - Degenerative Myelopathy, DM (SOD1A)
• - Exercise-Induced Collapse, EIC (DNM1)
• - GM2 Gangliosidosis (HEXB, Poodle Variant)
• - Hereditary Ataxia, Cerebellar Degeneration (RAB24, Old English Sheepdog and Gordon Setter Variant)
• - MDR1 Drug Sensitivity (ABCB1)
• - Neonatal Encephalopathy with Seizures, NEWS (ATF2)
• - Osteochondrodysplasia, Skeletal Dwarfism (SLC13A1, Poodle Variant)
• - Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, PCD (CCDC39 Exon 3, Old English Sheepdog Variant)
• - Progressive Retinal Atrophy, prcd (PRCD Exon 1)
• - Von Willebrand Disease Type I, Type I vWD (VWF)

DNA Health Summary

✔ No disease-causing variants detected for any of the 272 conditions tested.

Hip & Elbow Testing

• • Hip & Elbow Vetscore Pending - Plain English explanation: A lower score is better. A score of 0 indicates perfect hips while a score of 106 is the worst possible score.  An elbow score of 0/0 indicates perfect elbows.
  • Pennhip Pending - Plain English explanation:  PennHIP measures hip laxity (looseness). Lower scores indicate more stable hips and a lower lifetime risk of hip arthritis. A score of 0.00 is considered perfect and a score of 1.0 indicates the worst possible laxity.

  Falconwood’s health testing program has evolved over time as new technologies and research have become available. Earlier dogs may have Hip & Elbow VetScoring or PennHIP, while our more recently tested dogs have completed both assessments. Each test provides different information, and together they help us make informed breeding decisions. To learn more about our testing protocols and why some dogs have different assessments, please visit our Health Testing Explained page.

  DNA testing is one part of Falconwood’s comprehensive health screening program. Our breeding dogs also undergo PennHIP, Hip & Elbow VetScoring, and other relevant health assessments to help us make informed breeding decisions.

  A copy of each parent dog’s health testing results is included in our puppy owners’ information pack at the time of collection, providing families with complete transparency regarding their puppy’s parents.

  To the best of our knowledge, Falconwood is among the very few Sheepadoodle breeders in Australia that undertake this level of comprehensive health testing, and possibly the only breeder to publicly share the health results of our breeding dogs on our website.

  We do not publish the original certificates on our website, as they contain personal information, including owner details and other identifying information. Instead, we provide a clear summary of each dog’s results, while the original documentation is available to our puppy families.

  We are incredibly proud of the health results achieved by our dogs. At Falconwood, we are committed to continually reviewing new research, embracing advances in health testing, and making thoughtful breeding decisions so that each generation has the opportunity to be healthier than the last.