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Originally Posted by BamaFan121s Hmm, interesting Irene. Let me offer this scenario: Let's say you breed over a 4 day period. Then let's say your female has her litter early, maybe 4-5 days before her should-be whelp date. Then the pups later conceived would have actually had 8-9 days less to develop than the normal gestation period calls for. What difference could it have made in this case when they had over a week less time vs only a day or two less time? Just interesting to think about.
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Well I can only share from my experience. Dreamy's most recent litter was a day early from the first due date of the first breeding. The puppies had hair missing on the tops of their feet. Remember I wrote the wrong date on the calender at work and I thought she was a week early. My vet and I talked about the what if. If those pups the oldest ones were a week early they would NOT have been able to make it. Back to the range of peak I quoted from my vet above. I personally like to err on the side of caution by only breeding twice within 3 days. I worry about breeding a bitch that is at peak for 5 days. I am risking the lives of the last pups to be conveived should she go into labor early. Whatever we get in the 2 days of breeding is what I'll take..lolol.
Just to disclose: This is how I prefer to do things.