Wanting to Breed my Yorkie!
 

Hi! New user here ... I am wanting so badly to breed my Yorkie. He is CKC registered. I am absolutely clueless where to begin!! Any advice??

Breeding.
 

Please DON'T! I am sure others here will explain why.
Welcome to YT, it is a great forum. :)

May I ask you why? I'm just curious about it all?

I will not breed, so a breeder will come along and give you more information. This is the small amount of knowledge I have gleaned from here.

You would need tons of research on breed standards, the genetics involved in obtaining breed standards in the future puppies, medical emergencies involved in pregnancies and delivery, emergencies that arise with young puppies to avoid death, the genetics fully tested of both the potential parents, recessive and dominant gene studying, and lots of other stuff. Plus, you would need a mentor.

Apparently, many yorkies either perish during labor or they have puppies with varied genetic abnormalities.

CKC is not a reputable registry.

I am not a breeder, it's a very complicated venture. You need to know your dog's pedigree back several generations and what types of genetic issues may be there, and the same for the dam as well. You wouldn't want to produce pups that become a heartache for some unsuspecting person. LCP, liver shunt, luxating patellas ... just a few of the many problems that seem to pop up in Yorkies due to genetics.

Then there is the testing you would need to do and evaluation of the structure of the dogs. Is your dog a good representation of the breed? The way to prove that it is a good representation is to prove it in the show ring, but that isn't possible in your case because he isn't registered AKC. How are his knees? A dog with luxating patellas should not be bred.

Also, when breeding the female should go to the male's home, and you just can't let them breed willy-nilly. Only a very few times separated by days. Your boy will be going cray-cray during those days off. You will need to completely control the breeding ... if something spooks the female while they are tied your boy can be severely injured. Once he becomes a breeder, his personality will likely change. You will need to keep him in belly bands so that he won't mark all over your walls and furniture. They can smell a female a mile away, and will do anything they can to escape to find a female that is in heat. Intact males are the dogs most likely to be hit by a car.

Breeding should be left to the professionals who have the experience
to know the right breeding genetics and what is best for the Yorkshire Terrier
breed overall. There are so many things that can go wrong that you should not
think to attempt it .

I hope others chime in on this thread please.

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Why?

Thanks everyone for all of the information! This does sound very complicated! I wanted to breed my Yorkie because everyone in my community thinks he is beautiful, well and of course I do anyway haha! A few people have asked me if I ever planned on breeding him because he is such a beautiful dog. His mom is the 13th of her generation, so I figured there are some good genes there. I have tried to research breeding matters but never did j dream all of these things would play part in it! So thanks again for all of the advice, I don't think I'll breed my little man!

Good decision, you :)! I too had a lot of people say I should breed my Marcel and like you, I asked about it here -- and I then came to a resounding "no". He is my baby, my pet, my little love...I don't want/need him to be anything more than that.

PaigeJohnson, I admire your ability to actually listen and comprehend beautifully what so many before you have dismissed... You are refreshing. Lol. Cause otherwise this thread could have turned into an entire spool of us trying to convince you against it. Lol. Ive had quite a few try to convince me to breed my Madlyn because she's so frigging adorable, despite her being a bit on the larger size. But she's getting spayed in 2 days to the disappointment of the other hopefuls... The fact that they even asked me to do so without knowing every last detail about her first sealed the coffin on that proposal. Flattering but no way...

Thanks for all the comments and educating me! I have also been asked about breeding my Yorkie and was considering it, then getting him fixed. He's almost 5 months, so it looks like it's time to neuter.

If you plan on neutering him around 8 months of age,. that will be more healthy for him....his growth plates will have stopped growing at that age and he will have reached his full potential by 8 months of age, structurally and genetically.....At that age, he is a grown young man, the best he can be!

Also, at around 8 months, if he has retained any baby teeth they can be extracted at the same time. If you do it too early, it's not time to take out the baby teeth, when the adult ones come in there could be double rows of teeth and that will cause problems.

Plus it's a whole lot cheaper to have the teeth done at the same time as the spay/neutering. And they don't have to take the risks involved in going under anesthesia again...