Hello Thread This is my first time visiting and joining this site so I hope I am doing it right. My wife and I have a 4 1/2 lb. female ( Gracey) and she is presently in the family way, bred to a 7 lb Yorkie. How many days does it take from the time of mating? I really enjoyed reading your comments and would appreciate any good sound advice on caring for her. Thanks, it will be a great help to us. Will keep you posted. Joe (Bevmac777)
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Originally Posted by Rosie 1 HI... I breed yorkies and have for over 19 yrs now and poodles before that.. I hear more bad about the tinny's being bred than good.. You can have healthy but the way some of the people are breeding to get the tinnys fathers to daughter leads to real health issues..I don't profess to know it all or anything at times but do know you can get very tinny ones in a litter of normal 5-8# dogs. and you know an 8 pound yorky could be starved down to meet breed standards.. I weigh my dogs when they are a year old and if they get fatter that's fine with me.. I breed for health and conformations with tons of hair and wonderful faces.. My dogs are black SILK coats but my dogs weigh in at 2.5 to 8.5#. This is not a large dogs..I know a lady right now that bought a so called tea cup for over 2000.000 and after 6 months has almost put that same amount into it in vet bills..!! I hear this over and over.. NO thank you.. You get tinny dogs in almost every litter.. There are some excellent breeders that have bred their dog down to the tinny's but they are still having many c-sections as if you don't watch diet when pregnant the pups can become too large for delievery..
We just had 3 litters born the most I've had in 5 yrs.. I was on pins and needles.. Thank God they all were born fine and healthy... WHEW.. ! It's wonderful when it all goes well but when it dosen't you blame youself over and over... I've had people email me wanting to buy a 2# male for breeding to a 2# female.. Well, I'm not very nice when it comes to stuff like that.. Person even told me that her vet said the dog was big enough to have pups??? I asked who was going to benifit at her dogs distress of not being able to deliever her pups and who would make the money on such a breeding??? I told her if you want to breed buy something breeding size breed standard and then they can still have problems.. as it's a genetic thing as well as diet as to natural birth and c-section.. I told her the vet she took her dog to should be ashamed of himself.. I told her she didn't think much of her do to put her though that.. and her vet would be the only one to make money on that type of a breeding.. May loose the dog and all her pups.. especially if she dosen't even know what to look for with problems..
Well, I spouted enough..
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