OFA Information

Please note that this page does not contain OFA results for our Sires and Dams. This page is purely an informational page to assist our customers in gaining a better understanding on what OFA's are and the subjectivity of them. OFA results for our dogs can be found on our "About" page under "Females" and "The Sires".

Kimberlee's Kennels has been breeding health, genetic and OFA tested dogs since 2010. In the years since we started we have begun to create our own bloodlines to ensure that we produce the highest quality of puppies for our customers and for our own future breeding stock. In doing this we have noticed that some of the puppies we have kept back for our use received less than desirable OFA grades. This was both shocking and concerning to us as we were directly trying to avoid this by retaining puppies from parents that had received passing OFA grades. We also would never want to indirectly send puppies to homes knowing they could potentially have future issues. Therefor, we were forced to retire these dogs and remove them from our program. We finally started asking ourselves how we could possibly have dogs that fail their OFA when the dog showed no issues physically and the parents had received passing grades. We began looking online for answers and found a huge number of other owners/breeders of healthy athletic dogs that had failed their OFAs and these owners were also looking for answers.

Eventually we found an amazing study conducted by Dr. Lonnie Davis out of the Troy Animal Hospital in Troy, Ohio. He conducts hundreds of x-rays a year using his precise positioning technique and has achieved a 92% success rate in taking dogs that have previously failed their OFAs and then getting them to pass. What we learned from this is that OFA results are entirely reliant on the vet and vet techs taking the x-rays and how they have the dog positioned. We decided to start taking our dogs that had failed on the 10 hr trip to Ohio and have received new passing grades on all of our dogs! Due to the distance we try to only make this trip once or twice a year so you may see "OFA results coming" on our website but rest assured that all of our dogs come from extremely healthy bloodlines and we fully anticipate them to receive passing results!  This is of course a very brief overview so we encourage all of our customers to follow the links below to read about these studies and procedures in much greater detail!