Ivy

Ivy is a daughter of our dogs, Brady & Lux
Brady is all European Show Line, plus a Best in Show winner in conformation
Lux is mostly American Hunting with some American Show

Ivy’s OFA CHIC + ECHO

Ivy’s Pedigree

Ivy’s Embark full report

Ivy’s mom Lux’s Embark

Ivy’s dad Brady’s Embark

Ivy’s Wisdom Panel Optimal Selection DNA report

Ivy is genetically diverse due to the blending of multiple types of lines of Golden Retrievers. She and her siblings genetic COI with DNA testing ranges from 12-15% each. This is considered low for a Golden in 2025 standards. The lowest a Golden can get now is about 10% COI.

Ivy lives at a wedding venue on a farm with her co-owner. She goes everywhere with her family, helping while they tend to the property to keep it ready for the next wedding. Ivy is fantastic with all of the grandkids and constant babies added to the family. Ivy is what everyone wants in a family Golden Retriever, sweet, chill, loves to fetch, swims, snuggles, loyal. Her only flaw is she sheds a lot, like all the show-line Goldens. Ivy is a big girl at about 65 lbs.

Ivy is DNA tested for genetic diversity at Embark for COI, Wisdom Panel Optimal Selection for Heterozygosity, UC Davis VGL with BetterBred’s evaluation of the data. Here is her data in two pictures. The first picture is the VGL data interpreted by BetterBred for Outlier Index, Internal Relatedness, Average Genetic Relatedness and Hapoltypes.
The second picture are screenshots of her Embark COI, VGL report, Wisdom OS report

We have many articles and the science on genetic diversity and inbreeding in our Learn More section of our web site.