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06-16-2007, 03:41 PM | #1 |
Currently Suspended! Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Manchester, UK
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| How Big will he grow? How can you tell from a litter of pups, how big they will grow? I have a litter of 3 girls 1 boy and the little boy is HUGE?????? |
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06-16-2007, 03:48 PM | #2 |
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| There really is no way to predict how big and pup will get. You can guesstimate by looking at the parents sizes and grandparents sizes. Has the sire been bread before?? Does he throw big pups?? There is a formula you can use, I don't know how accurate it is, and it only works when they are older.
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06-16-2007, 03:52 PM | #3 |
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| what size the stud is his first time, he is a darling little dog,mum is smaller than him and she had 7 pups 6 girls 1 boy, they are fat little things, the other girl Penny is stocky to the studs light framed, and she had 4 pups, 3 girls and 1 boy who is massive. I did read to go off the dad??????? thanks |
06-16-2007, 04:25 PM | #4 |
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| I really have a good laugh everytimes I hear peoples blaming the dad when there is a bigger pup in a litter . Sometime breeders have small females that came from a bigger mom , so a bigger pup is not surprizing . |
06-16-2007, 04:27 PM | #5 | |
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I have seen larger Yorkies come from smaller sire and dam, they can throw back to grandparents or anywhere back in the pedigree. | |
06-16-2007, 06:33 PM | #6 |
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| Especially when they're so young, its impossible to know how big they'll end up. Like others have said, studying your lines is the best indication. What sizes were the puppies parents, grandparents, great grandparents? Even then, you won't have a very good idea until they're older...wait and see!
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