Located in Central Louisiana, Charolais Golden Retrievers breeds a few litters a year. Our Sire is 100% American with Champion bloodlines. Our Dams are 50% American and 50% English with AKC Champions & European Champions Close up in their pedigrees, These crosses on lineage results in a very low C.O.I  

 (Coefficient Of Inbreeding) resulting in very healthy beautiful puppies. 

What is COI?

COI stands for Coefficient of Inbreeding.  Essentially, it measures  the common ancestors of dam and sire, and indicates the probability of  how genetically similar they are.

Why should I care?

There are consequences to being genetically similar, some good, some  bad.  The fact that dogs within individual breeds are so genetically  similar is what makes them that breed- and why , if you breed any  Golden Retriever to any other Golden Retriever, the puppies will look recognizably like  Golden Retrievers.

OK, go on…but please keep it simple..

Many of the 20,000-odd genes that go into any dog of a particular  breed are ‘fixed’.  That means that every Golden will have two  identical copies of them- one inherited from their dam; one from their  sire.  Others however, are not so fixed.

Genes always come in pairs.  The gene-pair is called an ‘allele’.   When the pair is identical, it is called ‘homozygous’.  When the pair is  not identical, it is called ‘heterozygous.’

‘Allele’, ‘homozygous’ and ‘heterozygous’ are three good words to  understand if you are a dog breeder.  Homozygous and heterozygous are  terms often used more generally, too, when talking about diversity.  The  more gene-pairs that are homozygous = less diversity.  The more  gene-pairs that are heterozygous = more diversity.  Geneticists in the  main consider diversity a good thing.