Fern Hill Golden Retrievers, beautiful top-quality field and working lines with great conformation, trainability, and dispositions.

Fern Hill Golden Retrievers

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Omega Man, our first Golden, was a delightful, smart, handsome, and extremely trainable dog. Unfortunately, he developed cancer when he was 8 years old and died within 6 months. There was no question that we wanted to replace him with another Golden Retriever -- the question was, how could we be sure of finding one with the same brains and delightful personality? We started to learn as much as we could about bloodlines, and discovered that several generations back, most of his ancestors were field/service dogs.	Goldens at Home
In the Golden world, the breed has developed two distinct types. Starting in 1970, following the success of a show Golden named Cummings' Gold Rush Charlie, The conformation/show dogs have become increasingly heavy boned, with long bodies rather low to the ground, and with long, silky, flowing coats. The most desired showring color is a pale gold. At around the same time, the field Goldens, owing to the influence of an English import named AFC Holway Barty, diverged in another direction. Most of the field dogs are various shades of red gold, typically darker than the show goldens. They are frequently lighter boned, longer in the leg, and have shorter coats than the dogs that are currently successful in the conformation ring. While many of the field dogs have wonderful conformation, some of them are rather small with foxy heads and some have white markings.
We wanted the best of both worlds. First and foremost, we wanted the intelligence and trainability of the field goldens, who are excelling in obedience, agility, hunt, field trials, search and rescue, and tracking. On the other hand, we still wanted correct conformation, a more typical broad golden head, and good size. We found all that we were looking for at Adirondac Golden Retrievers in central New York state. These dogs are talented, joyful, love to work, and make great companions both inside and out. We purchased Adirondac Hilfy of Fern Hill as a puppy, and have been thrilled with her. She is beautiful, brilliant, energetic, and a great companion. She is the foundation of our breeding program.	10-month old puppy playing in the snow
One of Hilfy's 2005 puppies by Mr. Speaker	Another Mr. Speaker x Hilfy puppy

With our own breeding program, we hope to continue in this tradition. Our goal is to breed conformationally correct and handsome dogs that are lovable and loyal companions and excel in all the working fields. Our first three litters were by AFC AFTCH Rosehill's Mr. Speaker MH OS FDHF — May 28, 2005, August 3, 2006, and March 26, 2007. We are planning a litter in early summer 2008 by Ditto (Trifectas Repeat Performance *** UD MH WCX CAN CD,CGC). If you might be interested in a puppy from this litter, contact us early. Information about getting one of our puppies is here.