Breeding Dogs Heat Cycle. Breeding. Labor. Pregnancy. Birth. Weaning. Socializing. Giving a Home. Article written by Destiny Sweet (Nov.22.2010)
Breeding Silvia-
In the future we are planning to breed our female dog, Silvia, probably in late 2011 or early 2012. It is good to let the dog reach full maturity before breeding. We will be looking for a German Shepherd sire for her to breed with. Contact us through this website if you have one with prices, location, and how you work. Please read the following breeding information below.
Breeding-
First thing is first when you start out breeding. You need one male AKC of your choice of dog breed. Make sure the breed is an easy one for you to handle. And one female AKC. Or you can advertise that you need a sire on ad sites, the paper, or even ask a breeder. Make sure both parents are AKC registered, this ensures that they are purebreeds. It also ensures that customers that they are getting a purebreed Puppy. You can also cross breed dogs. Wait until both of the adults are at least over 1 year of age to begin breeding. If the female is in her first heat cycle, you should wait until the second to ensure she is fully mature as many dogs go in heat before they are. Visit your vetrenarian if you are unsure if your dog is ready to breed totally.
Labor-
When you know that they are ready to breed place them into a room alone. Do this a few times to ensure proper breeding. Write down the date that you breed the dogs. Take your female to a vet by the next 3 weeks for pregnancy tests. When you find out shes pregnant write down the date you found out. Keep the male and all other dogs away from her for 2 weeks before she goes into labor. Dropped tempature, vomitting, pacing, whining, and digging are signs of labor. Keep all dogs Away from her when she is pregnant and nursing. She will make herself comfie when ready to give birth. If a puppy doesn't come out or is having trouble being born get a vet asap. Keep a vet's number near you in case of an emergency.
Giving Birth-
A Bloody mess, a long time aswell, giving birth is the miracle of Life. Have a welping box prepared. Be sure you are ready for this. Some puppies come out face first. Others come out tail first. When puppies are being born, they can be born 4 hours apart the most each. If your dog is taking more than 4 hours to deliver and you know there are still puppies in her, call your vet right away and get emergency care. She will need a C-section if this happens or her and her puppies could be looking at death face to face. Small breeds like Chihuahuas or Shih Tzus, will always need C-section. Big dogs usually don't,but only may if an emergency Occurs. Keep dogs away from the female, there is a desease transmited through licking that can hurt the mother and puppies, aswell as many other deseases.
Give her food and water. She'll need to eat more than normal during nursing and pregnancy. You can handle the puppies at birth if the mother dog trusts you enough. There will be mucus slop all over the new borth puppies. Give the mom a minute to lick it off. If she doesn't get a paper towel and wipe it off yourself before the puppy smuthers and dies from being covered in it. Make sure the mom is nursing all the new born puppies and not one is left out. If you notice she is rejecting one, contact your vet for advice right away. Bottle feeding or even another mother that is willing to feed him/her may be provided.
Weaning-
Weaning puppies should start around 6 weeks old. Feeding them canned food should do the trick. At 7 weeks old try breaking them onto dry food. People like having fully-weaned puppies.
Socializing-
Handle puppies at least a few hours a day. Interact with them. Make sure that you pet them, hold them and touch them with strangers and yourself if possible. Getting a Puppy out door pen is a good idea to let the puppies explore the great outdoors. Purchasing colour collars to put around each puppies neck to identify them is another great idea. Green collar is the Green puppy, and there is Blue over there. Trying giving them cute names to encourage people to want them.
Giving A Home-
It isn't easy saying Goodbye! Place an Ad in the paper, online, ask friends, spread the word, you can even try bullitin boards. Here is a good site, called Kijiji to advertise on. Go to Ebay Classifieds and try that website, its free, and local. Lots of puppies are on there. We need also to set a price. Lets think. What are the puppies worth. If they are AKC Registered, have shots and are wormed and well socialized they are well worth $800.00 each. But if one of these price raising qualities are missing $500.00 is a very great price. Try making your price sound low to buyers like $499.00 for example. Make buyers happy and excited about the puppies. When people call about your ad, sound enthused and very happy and kind, this makes buyers feel they are making the right choice buying your puppy. Give all buyers any needed papers. And they are off... yes. Its Sad. But at least they all got good homes and you are so happy for the mother dog doing such a good job being a mom. Wow what an interesting experience.
Why Breed?-
Its fun. Its exciting, you can make some extra money, you can be happy with your dogs. If you are considering breeding consider this, happy, healthy puppies are the key to a future generation of loving dogs. Your puppies will make someone smile and make a diffrence in a misrable life.
