Pictures and weights

"the butterball litter"

appropriate for the holiday litter huh?

but they really are LOL

I am not saying what size these puppies will be until they are up and running off those bellies.  I price the puppies just before the personality testing.  The smaller kleins will be higher, the larger boy(s) maybe a girl, will be priced lower.  We breed for the small klein/moyen poodle, puppies are carefully priced accordingly. 

Momma has such rich filling milk and she's so patient to lay with them, these puppies are the most over fed by momma puppies I've ever seen!  They really don't have a way to have a lot of size with their parents, but who's what size will be determined later.

The two smallest girls are holding with Georgia and Gypsy.  Georgia is starting to thin out and eats just enough to be full so she doesn't have the huge toad belly like her siblings, her weight is the most accurate for size out of these little butterballs.


A standard poodle puppy that will be 24-26"+ will weigh ~3.5-4.5# about three weeks old.  Our puppies will be 3 wks old friday.

Darling Gypsy looks like a little toad too, will most likely be the smallest ... but ya know, Georgia could prove to be the smallest when the day is done.  Time will tell.

Gregory is the big boy, could be about 21-23" full grown, I am guessing at this point he will be a small standard for $1500.

Georgia and Gypsy are the little girls, they'll be about 16-18"

Grigg I expect him to be Everad's size (18")

Most of the puppies will be mid-sized kleins (moyens interchangeable) in between the size of their parents (18-20")

By the way, these are sweet loving rolly polly puppies.  Healthy and strong, we love to marvel over them daily.  They are more and more in the kitchen area in the larger whelping box in the commotion and noise and the adult & big puppies' smells to socialize them.  They are really awesome little puppies ... but they are little butterballs!

enough talk, here's Hilde & Everad's beautiful babies

Georgia

red collared girl weighed 2#4oz today

Georgia was hungry but usually waits until the big puppies eat, then goes in for the food.  She's sweet, cuddly and gives out a yell if started.  At this age, their eyes are still not focused and blurry.   Her nails are white and lots of white tufts on the pads of her feet.

Gypsy

cream girl weighed 2#1oz today

Gypsy likes to cuddle with her siblings and momma most.  She climbs all over momma before she settle downs to eat.  She looks white with beautiful black pigmentation (stains is what it's called).  In this picture you can see she has cream going through her very light coat.  Miss Photogenic got lots of pictures published today.

Grigg

black collared boy weighed 2#3oz today

Grigg is a calm, thoughtful boy.  He will root away from you at this age to cuddle with momma and his siblings, but once I hold him he watches and listens, not much opinionated talk from him.  He's definitely the small boy and smaller than a couple of the girls.  Grigg had a good photo shoot today too, his nails are black with white tufts on the pads of his feet, his beautiful face catches your attention.

Gidget

lime green collared girl, weighed 2#9oz today

Gidget is searching and talking about things around her.  She seems most active and alert, she will cuddle and seems to catch my eye at first amongst the puppies.  She's a smaller move about little girl, her nails are black with white tufts on the pads of her feet.

 

Ginger

pink collared girl, weighed 2#14oz today

Ginger is pretty layed back.  Put her on the table to take her picture and she almost runs off.  She is still a young puppy and wants to be with her siblings.  Cuddling is an inquisitive "wow you are close!"  Socializing seems a comfort for her, she might be a social girl.  Ginger is "the black puppy"

Gervais

white collared boy, weighed 3# today

Gervais didn't weigh as much as I thought he would today.  He could very possibly be the 18-19" klein puppy that most of them will be.  He's fairly active, sweet, likes to cuddle.  Hmm, only a big belly picture for Gervais today.  I'll see if I can't get a better picture of him next time.  Just a little white tufts, I expect him to be a blue (looks black with some wondering white hairs like his momma).

Georgie

blue collared boy, weighed 3# today

Big Boy Georgie is what I call him, but he didn't weigh as much as Gregory.  Toad belly boy that's for sure, he stretches out and makes a meal out of cuddling with momma.  Sweet boy.  I seem to pick him up a lot.  He will fuss and then cuddle close.  Black nails, very little very white tufts.

Genevieve

purple collared girl, weighed 3#2oz today

oh geez, she's so cute, and she's a toad!  I put her on the table for her photo shoot, and she just looks at me. I turn the pad she's laying on to get a good shot, and she looks over her shoulder at me.  She just might thin down and get up and start running here in a couple of weeks.  She's going to surprise us, I can see it on her face ...  I havn't gotten going yet!  She's a sweet little girl.  Now that's a picture!  Very white tufts on the pads of her feet, but only the front, the backs are now black and so are her nails.

Gregory

yellow collared boy, weighed 3#7oz today

Big Boy Gregory, he's a doll of a puppy, he's like Genevieve, he's got plans to get going but a toad belly keeping him low to the ground.  He's a sweet puppy, not worried about getting a meal, he knows he can just go after what he wants and get it with no problem.  I seem to pick  him up a lot too.

He was more wiggly squiggly, one only good picture of Gregory today.  Gregory just like Genevieve has very white tufts, black nails but only the front feet have the white tufts.

Silver puppies are born black, lighten on their face & feet by six weeks old.

usually can tell who's changing to silver by 3 weeks old, these guys I see are going to make it challenging for me this time ... and then wha-la, one day their faces will be noticeably lighter.
p.s., having the blog and making more detailed notes helps a lot with the guessing game of color and size at almost three weeks old, but ya know, they have a lot more growing to do.

I do attempt to pick them up in different ways and set them down at differently.
  It helps socialize them to small children when they get older.

Tentatively the personality testing is scheduled for the weekend of January 26-28th ... have some plans to finalize before I can say for sure.  Only the reserved list is invited, please no small children that will disrupt the puppies and only immediate families please.  If you have any questions, please contact me.

that's all I've got for you today, check back in a few days, will have more comments and pictures

blessings,

Paula and Jim 

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