Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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Conformation at UKC's first breed boost month! Read more about the concept of breeds in need here.

This month, the focus groups are Gundog and Oriental. The average number of entries have been calculated from the prior month's shows.

Gundog
Breed // Avg entries
American Cocker Spaniel // 8
American Water Spaniel // 4
Barbet // 4
Blue Picardy Spaniel // 8
Bracco Italiano // 3
Braque du Bourbonnais // 5
Brittany // 5
Chesapeake Bay Retriever // 6
Clumber Spaniel // 7
Curly Coated Retriever // 6
English Cocker Spaniel // 13
English Pointer // 0
English Setter // 9
English Springer Spaniel // 7
Field Spaniel // 5
Flat Coated Retriever // 6
German Longhaired Pointer // 0
German Shorthaired Pointer // 1
German Wachtelhund // 2
German Wirehaired Pointer // 5
Golden Retriever // 8
Gordon Setter // 9
Hungarian Shorthaired Vizsla // 1
Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla // 1
Irish Red and White Setter // 4
Irish Setter // 10
Irish Water Spaniel // 1
Kooikerhondje // 3
Korthals Griffon // 5
Labrador Retriever // 32
Large Munsterlander // 1
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever // 10
Old Danish Pointer // 0
Picardy Spaniel // 0
Portuguese Pointer // 0
Slovakian Wirehaired Pointer // 8
Small Munsterlander // 1
Spinone Italiano // 4
Sussex Spaniel // 6
Weimaraner // 13
Welsh Springer Spaniel // 2
Wetterhoun // 0

Red breeds are breeds in need!

Oriental
Breed // Avg entries
Balinese // 10
Cornish Rex // 12
Oriental Longhair // 8
Oriental Shorthair // 12
Peterbald // 10
Seychellois // 15
Siamese // 11


There are no breeds with under 5 entries in Oriental. Usually we'd focus on breeds with under 10 entries instead, but because March's averages are skewed by Conf only launching at the start of the month, and because by the end of the month all the Oriental breeds had 10+ entries, this time we'll focus on all the breeds!

Prizes

If you register petz for a breed in need, adopt petz for breeds in need, or make accepted breedfiles for the breed groups we're focusing on, you're entered into a raffle to win a hex from a breed of your choice!

The following activities will count towards entry:
  • Registering petz from a breed in need / +1 per breed
  • Adopting out petz from a breed in need (includes litters, single adoptions, hexing services, gifts, etc) / +1 per breed, +2 if adopting out 5 or more petz in a breed
  • Hexing a new accepted breedfile for any breed in this month's groups / +5 per breedfile
  • Hexing a new accepted breedfile for any breed without files in this month's groups / +10 per new breed
When posting in this thread, it would be very helpful it you included how many entries your post gets you at the end of the post! Entries will not count if they're not posted in this thread.

If you adopt out a pet from a breed in need, you get +1 entry, and the person adopting also gets +1 when they register the pet (or when they show off a pose for the pet, if registration was transferred to them).
If you adopt out a pet from a breed in need and you register a pet from that breed for yourself, you get +1 for the adoption and +1 for your own pet.

All the entries will be entered into a raffle at the end of the month, and the winner can claim either:
  • One hex from any breed (doesn't have to be from Gundog or Oriental)
  • Two hexes from any breed in need (doesn't have to be from Gundog or Oriental)
Prizes will be hexed by a UKC Conf steward.

Of course, just because other breeds in the group aren't in need doesn't mean you should ignore them! Picking up more popular breeds and doing adoptions for them is encourage too! They just don't gain entry to the raffle.

Please ask if you have any questions!
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Re: Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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First Breed in Need dog in my kennel - Irish Water Spaniel
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Dragosani MIŚ USZATEK Toudi
next, Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla
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Dragosani DIABEŁ TKWI W SZCZEGÓŁACH Rafa
and two totally sweet Kooikerhondje,
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Dragosani FARBA SIĘ ROZLAŁA Atom and Dragosani BUKIET STOKROTEK Daisy
and, outside the raffle - Nova scotia duck tolling bay retriever
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MORPHEE's Wyjście ze Strefy Komfortu Kosma
(I don't like tollers with so much white, I guess you can see that? XD)

for now, I adopt only one cat - Siamese
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SECHE Nutka Klasyki Nutka

next petz I will add to this post
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Re: Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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Registered:

Kooikerhondje
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Evanescence In the Heights "Usnavi"
2nd gen male - bred by Nightwish
+1 point

English Cocker Spaniel
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Dragosani HOT CHOCOLATE "Jue" | Dragosani MŁODY GNIEWNY "Gniewko | Dragosani KLASYKA GATUNKU "Diuna" | Dragosani SZKLANE PRELUDIUM "Elan" | BE PRETTY RUDY of Aventure "Rudziak"
1st gen female, hexed by Wolf | 1st gen male, hexed by Sileas | 1st gen female, hexed by Sileas | 1st gen male, hexed by Monssia | 1st gen male, hexed by Wolf

No points, just wanted to share!
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Re: Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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sileas wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2026 7:50 pm Image
I love love love this, Sileas!!
My_Lullaby wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2026 9:38 pm Image
Dragosani HOT CHOCOLATE "Jue" | Dragosani MŁODY GNIEWNY "Gniewko | Dragosani KLASYKA GATUNKU "Diuna" | Dragosani SZKLANE PRELUDIUM "Elan" | BE PRETTY RUDY of Aventure "Rudziak"
1st gen female, hexed by Wolf | 1st gen male, hexed by Sileas | 1st gen female, hexed by Sileas | 1st gen male, hexed by Monssia | 1st gen male, hexed by Wolf
And I love love love these too, My_Lullaby!! I need to hex some cockers too. I have one irl and I want to make her in petz!


I have adopted out 5 meezers! (+2 raffle entries)

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Gone to Amanda

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Gone to Celia

I have lots of Gundog breeds I want to register for myself. Might have to take a break from hexing for other people for a week to sort out my own crew!
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Re: Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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Oh I love this!!

My first to register is
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Peregrine Real Verified "Sunday"
an English Pointer!

just for fun, another English Pointer
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Peregrine Ragnhildur "Hilda"

and a GSP
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Peregrine Special Surprise "Marlo"

and a shorthaired Vizsla
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Peregrine Different Flavour "Maja"

+3 entry total
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Re: Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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yes, I love these kooikers too :D
I still have a lot of English Cocker Spaniels to register later :D

new hexies: 2 FP Kooikerhondje for GlowAndGo
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Dragosani HERBATA OWOCOWA Hela and Dragosani KAPSEL OD TYMBARKA Kapsel
both transfered to GlowAngGo
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Re: Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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I also have Kooikers haha

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Liesbeth and Eduard, pending regs atm

+ 1 entry point
My_Lullaby wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2026 9:38 pm Image
Evanescence In the Heights "Usnavi"
2nd gen male - bred by Nightwish
So cute to see a pet I bred still being loved and shown <3
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Re: Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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Eduard is pretty :D I prefer dark red coat
and I pending reg an Irish Water Spaniel dam, because I don't like have only one dog from breed, I prefer to have a pair right away

now I think about hex a few dogs, someone would be willing to adopt a barbet, picardy spaniel od german wachtelhund?
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Re: Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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sileas wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2026 3:40 pm now I think about hex a few dogs, someone would be willing to adopt a barbet, picardy spaniel od german wachtelhund?
I'd adopt any of those, but I'd be especially interested in a Barbet!! I have two already and would love another one :D

Would you like to do a trade? You hex me a Barbet, and I hex you one in return?
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Re: Breeds in Need; Gundog & Oriental (April 2026)

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trade is a good idea :D but I rather prefer a wachtelhund it isn't a problem
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