MEET JAMESON! Should HE breed!?!?
 

I am by no means an expert on breeding, but I always thought it was the male who had to be smaller than a female.

I think a 4 pound female would be too small to breed.

~Graleyne

I don't know much. I've never bred. Based on what I've read, it seems the female is usually a little larger than the male. If you have a small female, I think delivery can be harder on her. You'll get a lot of advice on here.

If the male is only 1 lb larger, how is this harmful to the female? Thanks!

Sometimes, when the male is larger than the female, the pups might get too big for the small female to give birth, therefore leading to a c-section. it is always better to have a smaller male.

The male should be smaller, not larger, than the female.

I don't know anything about breeding at all, but I have a friend who is a breeder. If her yorkie has only one puppy it is usually a larger puppy than if she has more than one puppy. She has had to rush her to the vet for c section (is that what you call if for a dog?) when the puppy is too big. I don't know if this is true for all dogs but I know she has had some problems.

She always breeds smaller males to her females.

A 4 lb and under female is WAY too small to breed. And yes, most of the time, the female should be larger than the male...

To warn you in advance... I'm no expert. But I am pretty sure that I read somewhere on yt that a very reputable breeder on here breeds her females that she likes to be in the 5-5.5 range to males in the same range maybe slightly smaller. From what I have read, a weight of 5 lbs and up to 7 is a good weight for females. Most people say that any female under 5 lbs is not suitable for breeding. Sounds like males could be slightly smaller (maybe 4lbs?) but no more than 7 either. So you wouldn't want to breed a 4lb female to a 5.5 male but maybe a 5.5 female would be fine. Also, I would warn you that from what I have read, since your boy is only 8 months, I have read that sometimes they will have a growth spurt so he might wind up being even bigger than 5.5. Again, I'm no expert but have been doing research myself and I have a female who is only 18 weeks but I expect her to be 5-5.5 lbs full grown and have thought about breeding as well. I'm still doing a lot of research and not really sure if this will be for me and of course, she's not really even old enough to be sure she is "up to snuff" as far as breeding goes but I would probably be looking for a male in the 4.5-5lb range if it were me. Good Luck!! Theresa :)

Do you have pictures of him ?

she does -the same thread is here in the breeder section
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83077

Thank you V .

Hi Jameson. Welcome to YT. I'm not a breeder but I have read quite a bit and spend a lot of time on here learning. There is a lot to consider when breeding. I'm sure your little guy is beautiful etc. but there is a lot more to breeding then just looks and temperment. You have to look ALL the way back into his lineage. You have to be certain that there is no liver shunt, heart problems etc. or other genetic defects that can be passed on to his off spring. A reputable breeder ALWAYS looks to improve the breed. Also with regards to your question about size. A reputable breeder won't breed a female under 5 or 5.5 pounds AND the male should always be smaller. You can probably have a lot of your questions answered under the breeder forum. I wish you and your baby the best. Elaine

thank you all so much. I am going to get information on all of his ancestors. I will let you all know how it goes. I def need to look more into spotting a show style yorkie. I am not sure though about his ears, they look alot bigger because i dont get the hair on his ears trimmed, funny as it sounds i think it gives him personality, haha. Ive read in books about breed standards, and he totally fits the description, with his coat colors, placements of colors etc, but like i said, ive never seen pictures of show yorkies. I might have a great dog for it, but who knows, maybe jameson is totally the opposite. Im going to have to take him to get examined.

I in no way want to create minuture tea cups that weigh 2 lbs, iknow it isnt safe, and it doesnt follow akc regulations. However, when your breeding female that is 5.5 lbs and a male that is 4.5 lbs how on earth do they produce puppys that are 3-4 lbs full weight? *confused*

They don't neccessarily produce puppies of that size, it depends on the size of the grandparents, as well as whether the individual parent has a tendancy to throw smaller or larger puppies, and sometimes there are big babies or extra tiny ones in a litter of average sized puppies. But generally you can expect the pups to be around the sizes of the parents.