Red String Farmstead is located in Middletown, Virginia, nestled in the northern Shenandoah Valley. We primarily serve families throughout Virginia, Northern Virginia (NOVA), Richmond, Winchester, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, with scheduled on-farm pick-up. We usually have a few families outside of these regions from across the continental United States who use flight nanny delivery options. Notice for California Residents (California Senate Bill 312 Compliance):Under California’s Puppy Importation Transparency Act (SB 312), out-of-state puppies entering California require individual Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) electronic filings registered directly with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) prior to transport.Because this filing requires advance processing tied to your specific puppy, we can only place puppies with California families who hold the #1 pick on a given litter. This allows our veterinary team sufficient lead time to fulfill all state documentation and ensures a smooth, on-schedule Take Home Day for every family in the litter. If you reside in California, please plan for a slightly longer waitlist window so we can secure a #1 pick position for you.

Red String Farmstead requires comprehensive, verifiable health clearances on all active breeding stock prior to breeding. This includes PennHIP testing (distraction index for hip laxity with no osteoarthritis), OFA Elbows (certified normal), OFA Congenital Cardiac evaluations (certified normal by a veterinarian), OFA CAER Eye clearances (examined and certified by a board-certified veterinary ophthalmologist), OFA Patellas (normal), and comprehensive genetic disease and coat trait panels (via Embark and Paw Print Genetics). Parents achieve or track toward official CHIC (Canine Health Information Center) certification through the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA), with public registry numbers accessible on ofa.org.

Yes. Red String Farmstead provides a comprehensive 2-Year Genetic Health Guarantee covering all severe congenital and hereditary diseases screened for in our parent testing. Because both parents are comprehensively screened via PennHIP, OFA, and genetic panels prior to breeding, we stand behind the genetic soundness of every puppy.

We breed only what we would purchase or own ourselves: F1B or Multigen Bernedoodles and F1, F1B, and Multigen Goldendoodles. All of our puppies, regardless of traits, are $3,800.

No. While we respect GANA’s work toward breed standardization, our program's scope and standards are distinct. First, half of the litters we raise are Bernedoodles, which falls outside GANA's single-breed focus. Second, we prefer not to rely on a private club badge when universal benchmarks already exist.Red String Farmstead holds all breeding stock directly to the highest objective standards in veterinary medicine and preservation breeding: CHIC (Canine Health Information Center) certification through the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA) and AIS PennHIP distraction analysis. Because our joint, cardiac, eye, and genetic records are 100% public and verifiable on ofa.org, third-party club membership is redundant to the transparent proof already available to our puppy families.

Every breeding dog in the Red String Farmstead program lives as a pampered family companion inside a home... never in an outdoor commercial kennel or stacked crate facility. Our breeding stock resides either directly with Isaac and Kayla Brown on our farmstead or with carefully vetted, local Guardian Families within our community. This model ensures every parent dog receives lifelong individualized human attention, daily exercise, veterinary care, and seamless retirement into a permanent family home.

The Wooby’s Early Life Program is Red String Farmstead’s proprietary, structured puppy rearing and developmental curriculum designed to produce resilient, adaptable, and confident family companions. The curriculum follows a chronological timeline:Days 3–16: Early Neurological Stimulation (ENS) and Early Scent Introduction (ESI) to enhance cardiovascular performance and stress tolerance.Weeks 3–8: Daily audio desensitization (to sounds like thunder, fireworks, vacuum cleaners, and kitchen clatter, and much more), varied floor texture introduction, motion sickness work, and social body massages.Weeks 4–8: Litter box conditioning using Little Wolves potty trays and alfalfa pellets to support housebreaking instincts before the puppy goes home, as well as close monitoring of Mom to follow her lead on separating from her puppies.Weeks 7–8: Temperament testing using the Volhard Puppy Aptitude TestEvery puppy goes home with a certified Wooby’s developmental record documenting completed milestones.

Red String Farmstead maintains a strict Lifetime Take-Back Guarantee and Zero-Shelter Commitment. Our purchase contract legally mandates that if an owner can no longer care for their dog at any point during its life, regardless of age, health, or behavioral needs, the dog must be returned to Red String Farmstead. We provide a permanent safety net to guarantee that no animal from our program ever enters a shelter or rescue system.

Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate visits in person before Take Home Day. Our puppies' systems are not prepared to tackle outside germs that they're not familiar with until they've had a few rounds of vaccines and, even then, there's always younger puppies nearby that we can't take that risk for.