Bi-Mar Pomeranian Kennel's
OUR HISTORY
We purchased our first Pomeranian in Germany in 1958 and
have been in love with this breed ever since. Along with our love for
Pomeranians, we also showed many Brittanys to their championships and our stock
was always consistent winners in field trials, earning their dual titles. From
our background in the sporting breed we looked for this type of soundness and
smooth reaching gait in our Pomeranians.
We also have a background in horse breeding that has helped
us with general knowledge we have been able to apply to our Pomeranian breeding
program. We owned several nationally known Paint and Quarter horses that we
have campaigned which included:
- Ms. Connie Kieffer, AQHA Superior halter mare
- Fanci Tradition, 1992 & 1994 APHA top 10 at the World
show with 155 halter points
- Major Endeavor, APHA leading the world in yearling
stallions
- Docs Magnum AQHA (NCHA) Cutting futurity and
Maturity winner
- My Top Sister, AQHA with an ROM in western pleasure plus
others point earners that we showed.
From our extensive background in horses, we learned that top
breeders in the horse industry consider the mare contributing 75 to 85 percent
towards the quality of their babies. So based on applying what we learned from
horse breeding, we have come to believe that the quality of the Pomeranian
female is probably more important that the right sire to meet the long-term
goal of improving the breed. With this in mind, we have always used our best
show quality Pomeranian females in our breeding program.
We do not believe in making excuses for any stock that does
not have overall quality, and we never keep anything in our breeding program
that has major faults, no matter what the bloodlines. All our stock has been
veterinary checked before they are placed in our breeding program. We have been
selective bring in outside bloodlines to cross back into our stock so that we
dont produce black skin disease, and other genetic problems.
When you see a Bi-Mar Pomeranian, several features will
stand out. We breed for a certain type with high ears, short back and pretty
faces along with double coats and of course, they have to be able to move
correctly with a far reaching gait.
In our breeding program, we try to keep our females and
males comparable in size, which is between 4 ½ to 5 ½ lbs. Each
litter we produce is our plan for future puppies that will develop into
champions. We take great pride in what we have been producing here at Bi-Mar
Pomeranians and to date we have bred over 150 champions which include: Best in
Show, National and Regional Pomeranian specialty and Toy Group 1st winners.
An excellent example of what we try to consistently produce
would be Ch. Bi-Mars Sundance Kid a breeder/owner/handled Best in
Show dog that ended up with 4 Best in Shows, 4 Best in Show specialties and 21
Toy Group 1st in his career and has passed his quality down in his get.
Our dogs are well represented in todays stiff
competition. Our black puppy male, Ch. Bi-Mars Country Jazz was Best of
Winners and Best Puppy at the 2003 American Pomeranian Specialty under noted
toy judge, Fred Bassett, and finished undefeated under 5 different judges. Ch.
Bi-Mars Amazing Grace Red Baron finished with 4 majors including both
majors at the 2004 Pomeranian Club of Greater Des Moines combined
specialties.
So you can see, based on the dogs we have competed with in
the past, and are competing with now, that our goal to continually improve this
breed is one that we feel we are accomplishing. |