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Originally Posted by jenskwan  I am sorry if I used the wrong wording when I said "keep up production" or "keep up with demand."
Here are the facts:
- In this calendar year we have reared a total of 22 puppies from eight litters from seven different females.
- We had agreements on eight of those puppies whose dams were owned by other parties and their pups were reared by them and the sales went to them.
- Technically, Firebrand has sold 14 puppies this year.
I will let the community respond to whether or not that is overproduction as I am not an expert in Yorkie breeding. I would like to be informed and not bashed please. |
The breeders here can probably best describe what is considered a "manageable" amount of puppies annually....and/or what is manageable in terms of # of females and whatnot. Hopefully they will chime in with experience.
Whether or not it's overproduction is so tough to say bc, just for example -- we have some really horrendous BYB (backyard breeders) out there (and this isn't even counting the Puppy Mills) - and many of those said BYBers are considered unethical breeders - so then one could/would say that even producing 1 pup out of that program would be "over production", know what I mean?
Whereas some Show/Exhibitor breeders, who breed for the betterment of the breed (or,
should be) may produce only 1 litter every year or 2. Some breed a few a year. It really just depends. But the point is that they breed very conspicuously, and breed for a targeted reason in most cases....they don't really breed for the purpose of providing pets only.