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Madds/Lucille Litter 1: A Litter Profile

Coswald February 17, 2026

What would you like to have in your Laekenois? Let’s start with the profile of the breed in general, as we at Coswald’s consider it to be.

Laekenois are always watching and very attentive to what is going on around them. For that reason, they have historically filled the herding role of “tending” where they served as a living fence to keep cohesion of the flock and to guide the flock slowly through pastures while keeping them safely away from roads and crops. They are not only effective at managing the flock, they are also very effective and devoted to guarding the flock and with it, family and property. And why not fterall, they are traditionally and are still today known as “herding and guardian” breed.

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The AGR (Additive Genetic Relationship, an estimate the of the genetic contribution of a shared ancestor) and Blood percentage for this litter is made up of these top 10 contributors, for 9 generations (1024 ancestors):

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This litter is very representative of past champion dog lines of Belgium and the Netherlands. These pups are best suited for work and sport endeavors that require more handler focus. They are superb family and ranch guardian candidates.

Madds/Lucille Litter 1: Week 1 Summary for 02/16/2026

Coswald February 16, 2026

So here we are.

Week 1 Summary for 02/16/2026

All weights in ounces.

Summary: Mr. Onyx has taken a rather commanding lead over Ms. Pearl and Mr. Ruby. He is up by 4.7% over the rest of the field. Our average Laekenois litter gains 84.55% during the first week. This litter gained 120.7% in it’s first week. Our average Laekenois litter has an average week 1 weight of 24.37 ounces while this litter is at 26.18 ounces. This litter has had a fantastic first week. I attribute this to the smaller litter size that’s given the puppies a bit more resources to work with.

Mama is doing well and eating well. She has good body composition. She has plenty of good milk for the pups.

Puppy Development: Puppies are walking and they are regulating their own body temperatures now. We are still keeping their environment warm though. Puppies are not experiencing any fear when exploring with or without Mama near by. For the first few days, Mama was a bit apprehensive when we would work with the pups, but not now. The pups are getting to where they don’t mind being handled by humans (wiggling and noise is going down) when being weighed and being given neurostimulation. Sight and sound are still to come for these pups.

Here is a week 1 update on Telegram from a prior litter that may be of interest if you are interested in having a reference point (a litter of 12 in this case).

The above litter report for a prior litter is actually for 10 days. The reason for that is that we just do these summaries on Mondays. For the current litter, it was whelped on a Monday so the first week summary numbers are for 7 days.

Pics of the 5:

Madds/Lucille Litter 1: Day 3 Summary

Coswald February 12, 2026

Day 3 Summary

Ms. Pearl back to leading the way. Mama and the puppies have settled in at this point. There’s not much to talk about, as everything is going as it should.

Summaries will be weekly from here on out.