Weight of a baby has everything to do with the dogs BEHIND the parents for generations....my precious little 2.5# BOSS bred with a female that weighed right at 5#....the smallest baby from that litter when grown, weighed 4.5 lbs....the rest weighed between 5-7 lbs. I have a male that I was so excited about...he is a Parquin and is stunning....I was grooming him to show.....until he blew right past the weight limit for the show ring....that cow weighs 12 lbs! I bred him to a female I have that throws small yorkies....out of 5 babies, 3 of them grew like wild weeds, reaching 11lbs, 12 lbs, and the COW I kept, 15 lbs!!! The other two in that litter hit just over 5 lbs. You have to look long and hard BEHIND the parents for at least 6-8 generations, to accurately even begin to guess what a litter will weigh, and you can still get green weenie surprises in a litter. Likewise, I have males and females that throw gorgeous babies that I am confident what they will weigh, or at least an accurate range, and that has to do with what is behind those dogs, in their pedigrees. Some are very dependable, some are an occasional crap shoot, as far as possibly larger adults thrown....I will occasionally breed those because they make great dogs for kid families....but HEALTHY is imperative in all of them, and they are that!! |