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01-04-2012, 05:26 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Breaux Bridge, LA
Posts: 18
| What a messed up situation!!! I work out of state alot so i depend on my wife to do all paperwork for our pooyi. She has been telling me his registered papers are ckc. Well i just made her go dig them up and read them to me guess what they are akc which is great, but she just recently put a deposit on a female that is ckc registered without telling me anything it was supposed to be a surprise for when i got home. What a drag!!! So i guess the female will be givin to my mother as a gift for a companion. Now the search continues for an AKC female!!! |
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01-04-2012, 08:59 PM | #2 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
Posts: 23,247
| Are you planing to breed?
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! |
01-04-2012, 09:26 PM | #3 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Breaux Bridge, LA
Posts: 18
| hello Yes we do plan to breed a couple litters per year. We plan on getting 2 females and our male thats it, but it will be a while before we are comfortable to start breeding we got alot to learn bout yorkies. I used to breed bigger dogs and there alot different in many ways. It will definatley be a couple years before we start breeding. |
01-04-2012, 11:08 PM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: belfast, northern ireland
Posts: 520
| It is clear from your posts you really want to go things properly... So would it not be wise to learn the breed for a few years to know what you are buying in your female? You know what it takes to champion a short haired older breed, but dealing with a toy breed that is so young comparatively- picking a good enough girl (or two) will take time to learn, rather than getting them now and them growing to be pet quality only. Is your goal to make money on it- because you really shouldn't with yorkies... They are very expensive fo raise given their size. If your aim is to contribute to the breed, then buying now and breeding your girl to your boy once she is old enough (and as you say you know, probably won't be the best match to your boy) may not be the best start. I didn't start out great- I have learned and evolved, but you have the chance to start great and stay that way! So please consider holding off on the search for your girls until you have stuck around a little longer to know what to look for (and what to avoid); it will benefit you soo much in the future... And with pooyi still go go through adolescence, the break between pups won't be a bad thing at all! And apologies for sounding so preachy at you all the time!
__________________ "...She will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of her heart; you owe it to her to be worthy of such devotion..." |
01-05-2012, 01:28 AM | #5 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Breaux Bridge, LA
Posts: 18
| hello BELLEMARIE, It is nice for some one to actually care bout the future of our and the dogs well being. I do plan on doing alot of research for the right female for my boy and for my family. I will not just settle for anything. I understand what your saying and yes we have alot to learn bout yorkies. Since we got our boy 8 months age i've been reading bout the breed and learning all i can. its simular to any breed, yorkies just have more mantinance and health issues. I am fully aware of that and i don't plan on being a big time breeder. We will start out very slow having 1 female and our male for a while before looking to buy another female. They will be a part of our lives and we will not do anything to harm them if for some chance we feel breeding them would put them in harm then we won't do it. |
01-05-2012, 05:29 AM | #6 | |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: belfast, northern ireland
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As I said, I don't mean to preach or sound patronising, but some things always need clarified with new members in case they don't know! They are similar to any breed- in the fact they are dogs! But getting yorkies to breed true is tougher than it Seems to be with some other breeds, and throwbacks can be a pain in the bum, especially if you plan to hold pups back to show and breed, and the small window of accepted size is far more problematic than it fist appears... I have a girl who is 10lbs, 3lbs over the standards weight- so in a bigger breed that wouldn't really matter- 3lbs here and there- but when those extra lbs make her almost twice the size of her mother... Remembering that not too long ago they were larger working dogs, only recently bred down, and 150 years ago, they were a new breed! That does make a bit of difference. I'm not being rude about your boy (he is adorable), but if you were not sure of his registry details, is he from Good healthy lines? And could the breeder give you proof of this? Was he from a litter they had for themselves to better their own lines, or was he a litter bred only to make profit? Oh, and have you had him gone over yet by someone impartial to check his conformation? It certainly woulnt be too early for that at 8 months- and while finding someone to go it you could make some great (breeder and exhibitor) friends along the way- maybe even someone willing to share their wealth of knowledge and experience with you! You have said a few times that you are not going to be a big breeder (thank heavens) but two litters, raised for 3 months each, not to mention the prenatal on the girls, will take up most of your year (the puppy care alone will be Half of your year) were they need constant supervision; and if you have to learn that the hard way that puppy Will take a piece of your heart with it. Yorkies arent a hobby- they are a lifestyle choice!
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01-05-2012, 06:48 AM | #7 | |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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Sense you where a breeder before you know that only yorkies who are a perfect example of the breed should be breed right? You know about getting them health checked? About making sure there is no LP in there lines? You have money set aside for an emergency? Yorkie puppies are different thing bigger dog puppies they need to stay with there mom until they are 12 weeks old.
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! | |
01-05-2012, 08:07 AM | #8 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NY
Posts: 6,582
| A good start would be to research your boy's pedigree. Find out what kind of lines he is from and if there were any genetic defects produced in those lines. How many Champions are behind him and what bloodlines they were produced from? I'm sure you know that you cannot take a dog from one line and mate it to an altogether different line without having some very strange and troublesome results. The genetics involved in raising quality Yorkies is totally different than other breeds and takes a lot of study and experience to become familiar with. It would be helpful if you could find someone who is already experienced and successful in the field and learn from them. There are already way too many people doing indiscriminate breeding of Yorkies and producing very big problems in the breed. I'm sure that is not your intention. The AKC registration indicates nothing about the quality of the dog or it's bloodlines. |
01-05-2012, 08:22 AM | #9 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Davenport Iowa,usa
Posts: 44
| What's the differents between akc & ckc ? Isn't twice a year alot on the female? The person I got mine from only does one litter a year. Thanks |
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