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Originally Posted by nlappegard  i would never breed a 7-lb dog to a 3 pound dog to get more puppies that will be smaller this would not be correct if you have a 7-lb female she needs to be breeding a 5or 6-lb male to make a nice square dog if you have a 4-lb female she need to breed a 3 or 4 -lb male this i correct to make nice square dogs that are healthy when you breed tiny males to bigger females yes you get some smaller dogs and bigger litters but are those small dogs healthy no they are the runts of the litter the puppies that got the least amount of nutrition inside the mother |
I'm guessing this long post is to somehow justify breeding tiny females since this thread picks up from a thread now in the breeder's forum. In your post you use this example
"if you have a 4-lb female she need to breed a 3 or 4 -lb male", but you go one further and breed 3 pound girls. In another thread, (
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...ng-home-5.html), in post # 63 one of your customers states that they have one of your 3 pound girls and you allowed your 1 1/2 pound stud to breed with her. Not only is the girl too small (IMO) to breed, but you go against your own stated logic by mating her to a male that's half her size. Isn't that the same as breeding a 3 pound male to a 7 pound female, which, in your above post, you say you would never do?
I will say that my best pups have come from one of my boys that is a bit over 6 pounds bred to one of my girls that is 5 pounds. They produce beautiful pups that are well balanced structurally and have inherited the best traits of both Mom and Dad. The largest pup they have produced so far is a female that weighs 5 pounds, which I kept. The other pups were smaller with the smallest being 3 1/2 pounds at 8 months.
The above example I gave goes to show that there is much more to breeding than just picking a smaller male to go with a female. You can get great results using a somewhat bigger male if you know your dogs. More important is to get dogs whose traits complement each other to breed sound, beautiful, healthy pups and not just shoot for purse puppies.
I won't even address the difference between show and pet quality dogs because I don't think this thread has anything to do with that despite the title saying so.