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04-28-2008, 06:43 AM | #1 |
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| breed a yorkie How old does the male need to be to be able to breed? Leo is going to be five month on may 15th. Some of my girlfriends would love a puppy but i need to find someone who has a female yorkie.I dont know how this whole thing works???? can someone explain? |
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04-28-2008, 06:48 AM | #2 |
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| Please do a YT search on this subject. You may learn things that convince you NOT to use your male for a stud. From my personal experience with our male toy poodle, I would not have done it if I would have had this information beforehand. There have been many conversations on this issue though so you may want to go read them.
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04-28-2008, 07:32 AM | #3 |
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| Leo is way too young. I agree with Angie - PLEASE read up on breeding before you do anything. It is so involved and expensive to breed Yorkies.
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04-28-2008, 07:35 AM | #4 |
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| But please note that it is not only the expense and involvement I'm referring to. My poodle turned into a marking machine afterwards. It didn't affect his personality but if I'd known the marking issue would be so extremely bad, I wouldn't have done it. But also there are so many factors involved in breeding. Is your male a "good Yorkie specimen"? Of course we all think ours are adorable but there is so much more to consider.
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04-28-2008, 09:31 AM | #5 |
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| Five months is way too young to breed! I would leave the breeding to the experts! Maybe you can help your friends find a good breeder.
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04-28-2008, 02:01 PM | #6 |
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| Dont they beggin peeing???? Mine is fixed, but i heard that they may start peeing all over if you let them breed.... "lift theyr leg????" as some call it? I will keep reeding here to find out more about it .....
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04-28-2008, 03:14 PM | #7 | |
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Believe me, I know! I just didn't want to get into a long involved answer and sound snooty. Males will often consider that their full time job once they've been bred. I didn't want to get into the testing and the possibility of passing on traits that aren't apparent in the parents and stuff like that.
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04-28-2008, 03:27 PM | #8 |
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04-28-2008, 04:30 PM | #9 |
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| He is way too young... I urge you to really research and read before you consider breeding. Breeding is such a huge responsiblity and not to be taken lightly. Honestly, yorkies are so overbred right now that most don't meet the standard and health problems are unfortunately too common. Also, I'm sure you know the pet population is out of control right now...millions of dogs are euthanized in shelters. IF you decide to breed him, please please please have all neccessary health screening done before you breed him (and on the female). Too many of our babies have genetic defects because health screening wasn't done. It's so unfair to our yorkies and causes heartache for the owners. Some health testing that needs to be done is: a good physical exam, a blood panel, a bile acid test to check for liver shunt, check hips for Legg Perthes, check knees for Luxating Patellas, check eyes and ears, check heart, check thyroid. You also really need to know the dogs' lines because some diseases can skip generations such as liver shunt. Yorkies are 36 times more likely to have a liver shunt than all other breeds combined so its so important to know that there is no history of liver shunt anywhere in the lines...up to 10 generations back. You also have to do tests for STDs (even if its the first time for both). Dogs can be born with Brucellosis if mother was infected. Brucellosis normally causes abortions and the dog will then be infected for life. Recomendation is euthanasia because the dogs become a public health risk and can transmit the disease to humans. A recent Brucella test is always a must or you may risk having to euthanize your dog. There is also a lot of responsibilty that goes with breeding. I believe that breeding should be done for one reason - to breed the best representations of the breed and to continue bettering the breed. I really believe that only those yorkies that meet the standard should be bred...i call these "show quality" yorkies (even if the breeder doesn't actually show). I don't believe people should be breeding for pet-quality dogs, breeding for money, or just breeding because they think its fun. There are too many dogs in the shelters to be breeding just to breed. Also, be prepared that if you breed him that he may have unwanted behaviors for the rest of his life. He may have a "stud dog attitude" for the rest of his life and may mark and hump even after he is neutered. Don't feel bad for neutering him. Dogs don't have a sexual ego like humans. Their only reasons for mating at instinct and reproduction. They are driven by hormones and instinct only, and once you take those hormones away, the urge to mate goes away. Dogs don't miss their testicals I promise you...they know no difference other than they don't feel the urge to run out and reproduce. Unneutered males can smell a female in heat up to a mile away and may do anything to get to her. Many males are injured or hit by cars when they escape from their home and attempt to get to a female in heat. Unneutered males also may stop eating when a female in heat is near by. Neutering really makes a happier and healthier pet. By neutering him, you'll eliminate his risk for testicular cancer and enlarged prostate as well.
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04-28-2008, 06:23 PM | #10 | |
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Breeding isn't as easy as some thinks it is, there is a lot of time and work involved it breeding, please don't just breed your Yorkie to let your friends have one. If you don't know how this whole thing (Breeding) works then I feel you need to be trying to learn the dos and don'ts of breeding Yorkies. You need a mentor that will help guide you through the whole process. Can you contact your Breeder you adopted your puppy from to ask them to help you learn more about breeding? Also there's tons of good books to learn from. Please do some research before jumping in to breeding. Lee | |
04-28-2008, 06:25 PM | #11 |
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04-28-2008, 06:29 PM | #12 | |
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