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03-13-2006, 05:03 PM | #1 |
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| reaborbing litter Has anyone experienced a yorkie mom reasorbing a litter close to due date??? My girl reasorbed her whole litter. Strange???? Are there any precautions that can be done to advoid this???? I am new at breeding and mom is 2 almost 3. Had 1 healthy litter last time. All were healthy. Any help would be helpful. Thank you in advance. loving yorkies |
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03-14-2006, 12:38 PM | #2 |
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| hmmm... I don't know what you just said. What is reasorbing a litter????? |
03-14-2006, 12:45 PM | #3 |
Livin' La Yorkie Local Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NE Ohio
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| Yes. I have experienced a bitch reabsorbing a litter. She had a big belly one day, then the next day she was deflated like a balloon. Took mom in did xray and ultrasound, saw traces of puppies. The vet gave mom Clavamox to ward of any infection.I have since retired the bitch because this was the 2nd time she reabsorbed puppies. I never went through all the extra tests to find out why I just retired her. |
03-14-2006, 01:04 PM | #4 |
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| litter You actually had an xray, saw pups, also saw and felt movememt, then the litter was gone to reabsorption? Never experinced it to my knowledge..but before an xray it may have happened...but once the number was determined, I have never had less born..had more born when the xray did not show a hidden one, but never less. It certainly happens..I have been lucky. |
03-14-2006, 01:06 PM | #5 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | I'm not a breeder...but that's so sad & to happen so close to her due date is scary...I hope someone can tell you why this happens...but I have to agree with YorkieRini...I would worry about breeding her again..... that must be heartbreaking Has she seen the vet already ? |
03-14-2006, 01:46 PM | #6 |
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| I am with Pat. If the puppies show on X-ray that means they already hace calcified their keletons. It would be really hard to absorb bones in a few days. If the pregnancy terminated while the puppies were still blobs, I have had one on one occasion start reabsorbing a puppy, but, the "blob" became infected and we did c-section to save the others. The re-absorption had started before 45 days or so, though.. |
03-14-2006, 02:01 PM | #7 |
Livin' La Yorkie Local Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NE Ohio
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| Well, Izzy was a 2 wks before her due date. When we did the xray and ultrasound and found only 3 globs of tissue mass which were remnants of pups. I had her xrayed after the aborbtion process was in the advanced stages. She passed what was left. We were able to avoid infection by administering Clavamox. I could not imagine calcified bones turning plyable... My vet told me horror stories of people not watching their bitches for sudden changes and lost them due to reabsorbtion and then infection setting in. Mercy, that would be horrible. Last edited by YorkieRini; 03-14-2006 at 02:03 PM. |
03-14-2006, 02:11 PM | #8 | |
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Pat I always x-ray my girls.. Last year I had one of the girls x-rayed 7 days before her whelping and there were five skulls and five spines.. When she whelped we only had 4 puppies and she had mostly absorbed the 5th puppy.. We did have to x-ray and do an ultrasound on her after the whelping because of her temp spiking and there were some remnants of her 5th puppy still in there.. She was given an antibotic injection and sent home on antibotic.. My vet said that if her temp was still high the next morning he would have to go in and remove whatever was left of the 5th puppy.. But the next morning her temp was lower and she did great from then on.. I also had a female absorb her whole litter about 2 1/2 weeks before her due date.. She was spay and placed into a pet home..
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03-14-2006, 02:29 PM | #9 |
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| litter I think was I am visualizing is a fat mommy one day, pups moving around and then next they are all gone, no signs of any litter.....but all of you say there were reminents of pups left..that makes sense..just never had it happen. If the xray saw 4, four were born, never 3..sure had the xray say 3 and got 4! I have had a bitch look bigger at 5 or 6 weeks then 8 weeks...but no infection or blobs resulted..so if the pup/pups reabsorbed they caused no trouble..that is what I am saying...we have never seen evidence of a reabsorbed puppy left behind. |
03-14-2006, 02:31 PM | #10 |
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| Interesting WOW, this thread is so interesting. How awful for this to happen to the mommy and pups. Looks like if they were going to do this, they would do it earlier in the pregnancy. |
03-14-2006, 03:01 PM | #11 | |
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03-14-2006, 03:04 PM | #12 | |
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When Tequi absorbed her litter 2 1/2 weeks before her due date it was just like that! The evening before she was huge the next morning she was definitely not pregnant anymore and she did have a red discharge.. when I got her to my vet and he did an ultrasound on her all the puppies were gone! The early morning that this happened I wake up to Tequi almost crying in the night.. I rushed into her and she was already having a red discharge and the pups were gone.. She also was given an antibotic injection and a prescription of Clavamox..
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03-14-2006, 03:36 PM | #13 |
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| wow So interesting... |
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