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Originally Posted by Mardelin  May I ask what kind of tests your vet performed on your two? Because so many should be done before breeding.
Several things need to be done before you even breed these two. The first is finding a good mentor.
Breeding is scarey, and if you aren't fully prepared, it is even worse. Especially if you aren't prepared to lose your girl and possibly the litter. |
Yes, having pups is so scary with yorkies. I have mine tested and have Very nice yorkies, and breeding/whelping a litter is not my cup of tea. I get so scared, since I am very aware of the dangers with yorkies whelping a litter. They do not just birth these pups on their own. You have to help them, if you want the pups being born alive and increase the success rate of them being born alive without complications. Picture this: getting yucky, finger up in mom maybe to check if an elbow or shoulder is caught just to name one thing. Sorry to be so blunt, but you need to be to be fully aware. Most often yorkies pups are born breech, which means back feet first, which is then harder for the mom's body to open up wider to allow the head and shoulders to come out. You often have pups that get stuck halfway in/half out anot not moving further to come out and you have to help with the contractions to pull the pup out (very dangerous to do, if not done correctly). Infections can set up, you can have eclampsia, and other complications after the birth that can cause a mom to die. Then what if a c-section is needed - which is often with yorkies. This is costly, but honestly - very dangerous to the mom, since yorkies do not do well with anthesia. This is what really scares me!!
C-sections are not easy for the moms to come out of. It takes hours for them and so scary to watch them, not being able to come out of it well and the look of their eyes and how they can go crazy on it. I had one mom that did not come out completly of the ansthesia until 24 hours later. She kept sleeping and I had to keep waking her up to make sure she did not go that far under and die on me. Then she did not want to eat afterwards. I had to spoon feed her around the clock and even put my finger in her water bowl and bring it up to her chin to make sure she ate. She also got an infection and had to be put on antibiotic. She was so sick and we just about lost her. (Her pup came out of its sack in utero and caused the infection to set in and of course we lost the pup). So much can go wrong. If you are not prepared - and the yorkies are not a good example of the breed and healthy (pass all tests) I would not breed. You do not want to loose your girl and upset your household. Too much can go wrong. If it was another breed that do not have as much problems as yorkies do - then maybe after testing and looking it compared to the standard, but with yorkies, too much can go wrong.
Here is an x-ray of why my last girl that needed a c-section and she is a champion. As I stated - anything can go wrong - you have no idea. I never knew a pup could do this till now - folded its self in half and tried to come out stomach/back area first, so all four feet touching with head facing mom's head. A pup is not going to ever come out naturally this way. A c-section is the only way to resolve this problem. If a pup ever stayed in mom - you would loose the mom forsure. So you have to be sure if there is still a pup in mom or not. How do you know forsure, since x-rays can be wrong?? You have to know how to feel the mom to tell, since her contractions can stop and you would never know unless you know what to feel for. So yes, whelping a yorkie litter is very scary and dangerous. Plain and simple!
Oh, on this x-ray - the pup did not make it, even though the section was done pretty fast.