I'm sure everyone else added their 2 cents worth in, I'll add mine.
I was thinking if I got a girl, I could breed and make a 2ond income. Mind you, I knew nothing about breeding at that time.
After getting my girl (already had a boy), I hung and read up as much as I could about breeding Yorkies in our breeding section here.
Thats when I learned if my girl was smaller than my boy, I'd have to have a C section ($3,000 if taken into emergency room) and could possibly loose my girl.
I also learned that Yorkies don't have as many pups as "dogs I grew up with". Sometimes they only have like 2-4 pups. Then you have to pay to register, play to get tails docked, dew claws removed, and have to be very careful of loosing a pup if Mom doesn't give enough milk for all. Thats every 2 or so hours, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, till it eats on its own.
And if the worst comes, you loose the Mom in childbirth cause you couldn't afford to go to emergency with her, you have to feed pups, every 2 hours 24 hours a day those first 8 or more weeks.
You have to know the exact day they bread, as you need to know the exact day she'll give birth, to avoid emergency C section.
I don't know how breeders do this.
The 2 I have keep me pretty much tied down at home. But when I want to go out of town, not hard to pay someone to take care of 2. But what if I needed to go out of town on family emergency and I had puppies I had to feed, a preg female about to give birth? Who would take care of that? I couldn't turn that over to just someone "trustworthy with keeping my babies", as giving birth isn't an easy task, and there is so much to learn.
Didn't take me long to realize, that breeding Yorkies, wasn't easy as breeding your "average dog".
Most of the expenses that come with the breeding, I decided wasn't worth me getting into. I could start out loosing money before I made a dime off pups. Loosing my girl, or a pup would kill me!
After hanging in the breeding section here, and learning "some" of the things that goes with it, I had both of mine fixed.....knowing breeding wasn't for me. Good thing I did, as my female is still smaller than my male (hence, C secion, or possibly loosing female).
I learned that breeding Yorkies was nothing like breeding your "average" larger dogs that throw off 10 puppies. |