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Bielkas´ puppies are growing so fast Yesterday they were outside the welping box for the first time. they found the news paper exciting and very soon they were comfortable in the new situation. 

Newly born puppies and visit from France

During the night to the fourth of march Bielka gave birth to four puppies, three males an one female. You find some photos of the puppies and Bielka below. All puppies are reserved.

Bielka and her four newly born puppies 150304

Puppies feeding 150304

Blue male 150306

All four, blue male, purple male, pink male and the female 150306

female puppy 150306

 Bielka was tired after giving birth 150304



Yesterday, puppy buyers from France came for a short  visit and I had the opportunity to greet Inuk and Jipsy who both had grown up to two well-built young ladies. It was so much fun that they went past , it's always fun to see how the puppies are developed and of course also to meet with our good friends.

Family Bruneau in front of some of their five dogs

Clelia celebrated her fourth birtday 150305

Polardistance 2015 once more

Now I have talked to Håkan again and have to edit some of what I wrote yesterday. 

He was very pleased with dogs that have worked really well throughout the race ( he was out for 22 hours , with an obligatory stop at 10 min for veterinary control , the stop was about 18 minutes as Håkan also took the opportunity to give the dogs food). 

Despite the fact that the dogs had been working for 22 hours they were still alert at the finish line and Håkan meant that there would have been no problem to run them one more lap . 

The veterinaries who check status of the dogs after the race gave him praise, they were all in very good condition. 

 About 27 km before the finish  one ski binding had frozen with the result that he could not lift his foot because then he dropped the ski. Because of this, there was some thirty falls before he finally was able to cross the finish line.

 It was -24 degrees centigrade and full moon at night , harsh trails but excellent temperature for Samoyeds and the samojedhat was nice and warm to wear.

The team reaches the finishline after about 22 hours

Polardistance 2015

Today Håkan, Corona, Ergo, Geist and Deimos finished as winner of  Polardistance 160km pulka. The condiotions were tough with heavy trails and after about 24hours  25% of the teams had given up.

Håkan was very tired after having gone skiing 180km (the real distance) non stop and the last 25 kilometers one ski binding was broke which didn't make it any easier.
He was satisfied with the dogs who worked very well for about 22 hours, then they were tired and the speed was lowered.
It was extra fun that Håkan and the dogs won for the second time (they won in 2013 as well) over the other polar dog teams, siberian husky, alaskan malamute and greenland dogs. This year the starting field was very big - for start there were 26 teams.

Start of Polardistansce 2015-03-05 with Ergo, Corona, Geist and Deimos

Visit from dear friend

Last friday Pernilla (breeder of Sälka) arrived with Ellinor, the daughter to one of her puppy buyers. On friday we went for a long walk with some of the dogs and later in the evening we ate homemade pizza as we use to do on friday evenings. We had a very nice afternoon.

Yesterday there was a little sunshine so the day was good for taking some new photos of some dogs. After grooming them Pernilla was kind enough to help me. Later on Ellinor washed Salt and then she and Salt fell asleep on the sofa.

Below are some of the photos which Pernilla took.

Bielkersmils Geist of Barusi

Bielkersmils Jotka of Birk

Bielkersmils Jotka of Birk

Bielkersmils Kalla of Nallo

Bielkersmils Lava of Deimos

Bielkersmils Lava of Deimos

Bielkersmils Lava of Deimos

Soon Bielka is supposed to give birth. She has tested the welping box and seemed satisfied. At the moment she is sleeping on the kitchen floor and I wonder if she really will have her puppies on the seventh of March. I think the puppies are quite far back - well time will give us the answer.

Bielka testing the welping box

Bielka has a big puppy stomach

Bielka 

New breed?

Rainy and wet snowy weather for several days has made the snow almost go away and the place where the dogs use to dig in the exercise yard is no longer frozen or covered with snow. This is how Lava and Mieto (two youngsters) looked after playing for some hours in the yard today.

Nordic championship for samoyeds 2015

I'm finally starting to feel better from the flu that I got infected by in Furudal last weekend, so here comes an update with the results. 

In Furudal I competed with sled in the four team class 2x10km and my hope was to defend the results of 2013 and 2014 as the best lady's team and be fortunate to bring with me the fine samoyed statue again. 

Saturday offered cloudy weather with a few degrees of frost and a light snowfall before the start. I had Corona and Ergo in point and as wheel dogs I had Geist and Deimos . I thought they did a good race even if Corona had just passed her season and was not particularly interested in running. 

After Saturday's stage we were on second place. Now we only needed to keep ahead of the third team. On Sunday the weather was almost like on Saturday. I had decided to change a bit in the team and chose to put Deimos in front instead of Corona who I put as wheeldog . It turned out not to be so wise. 

Deimos trotted at a high pace, but refused to go up at a gallop so when the speed was really high , he had a tough job to keep up and did not contribute any power forward. We finished fourth and Camilla Dehlin was the lucky who could bring samoyed statue .
First was Frederick Petri and on third place came a Swiss who won the same class a few years ago . 

I felt nevertheless happy with my dogs and what we had accomplished, given that we train our dogs for long distance and that one of my guide dogs was probably falsely pregnant. 

Awards for the Samoyed of the Year, Sled Dog of the Year  and Show dog of the Year was presented in conjunction with the dinner and we were surprised when the Samoyed of the Year was called out: 

Bielkersmils Hero of Ergo owner : Lotta Eriksson. 

Congratulations to Lotta and to Lars, who has gone around the race track and show rings with him!

In fourth place was placed our own Bielkersmils Great Geist of Barusi

The Sled Dog of The Year became Bielkersmils Etna of Pepper ( Bielkersmils Ergo points were interposed tied for first place , but Etna was voted by the Board ) . Ergo Bielkersmils of Pepper thus became number two , and sharing third place were Bielkersmils Corall of Allsvinn , Bielkersmils Chinookk of Allsvinn , Bielkersmils Hero of Ergo and Bielkersmils Ejla of Pepper

Really fun was that Madeleine Abrahamsson managed to cope qualifications DP20 on skis with her and Gustafs two dogs  Bielkersmils Fantastic Frey of Nallo and Bielkersmils Igor of Zouroff 

Congratulations to Madde and Gustaf and extra Congratulations to Madde who also received the award for "The Performance of the Year"

Madde, Frej and Igor, well worth the award "Performance of the Year" after having struggled on skis for both 10km and 2x10km

Finally a good ending to the samoyed meeting in Furudal was made by Lars and his eight team (five dogs of his own and three borrowed from us) as they coped qualifications for the DP60-test.

Congrats Lars!