Showing females

[Dogman]

I have a proven female that has won one conformation show.i want to breed her soon.do y'all think I should finish showing her then breed her or will it take a lot out of her. Or can I go ahead and breed her and take her out after she weans the pups like months later.please give me reasons to y I should or shouldn't do it thanks a lot

[OGDOGG]

How valuable is she to you? Breed her if you want more of her in your yard. You never know what's going to happen to her. You just have to start weaning the pups early like around 3 weeks and have them off around 4-4.5 weeks. Then wait til after her next heat to show her again.

[thefoodchain]

There are 2 trains of thoughts in this as for an approach. The first is just 1 that goes into it. There is a stud that is later on in life and breeding career and he might start missing if I don't act this cycle. Second you really would like something of her to secure the future of your program cause just in case her show career is ended. With these 2 as a base line you can't go wrong and you won't feel cheated. This is my opinion on the subject.

[QCKLime]

If you're confident in your female, there's no reason not to breed her in between shows. I was told GRCH Tina whelped a litter in between every one of her's, so the thought that breeding takes too much out of them isn't factual.

[OGDOGG]

Some people make the mistake of bringing a female back out too soon after welping a litter. They don't realize that when a bitch gets pregnant, her body softened up and is not the same as before. It's almost like starting all over again. She needs months nd months of exercise just to get her body back into shape. That's when they thought "breeding took a lot out of her" yes it did, but it's your job to bring her back to how she was before and not let her just sit on the chain until you contract her.

[Officially Retired]

There are a lot of factors to the decision.

Every bitch isn't the same, every litter is the same, and not everyone pulls their pups off the bitch at the same time.

For example, a 3-pup litter removed from a young bitch when they turn 4 weeks old will not take the same toll on that bitch as would a 9-pup litter where the pups are left to feast on her until 8 weeks of age.

Therefore, a little common sense and quick/vigilant whelping will go a long way toward keeping a bitch in top form through breeding ... whereas the typical whelping protocol can be a very hard/long process for a bitch to recover from. This is especially true if worsened by bad worming protocol.

Jack

[FrostyPaws]

I personally don't breed anything until the dog is finished with the entire process.

[bxpits]

my mylee bitch was bred after i rolled her into a grch. 5 months after she whelped a litter of 9 pups she won her first.
breeding does not affect performance as long as their is an intelligent game plan and focus on conditioning and nutrition

[montycash]

my input is breed her if you feel she is worth breeding and the then whelp the pups correctly like jack book says but i have a partner motto " if a dog showing show let it show " " if a dog breeding breed the dog" don't mix and match

[EWO]

depends on the dogs and what one is looking for form the dogs. Regardless of what theory one goes with the idea is to have the dog just about perfect on show night. If she raised 7 or 8 or 9 pups and fed them til 7-8 weeks it will take her longer to get back 'perfect' than is she raised 2 or three or 4 for 4 weeks or so. If she is a bitch you can't imagine going forward without then breed her now and let her offspring tell her story. If you have both her sisters and she is by far the best. Come out with her and breed the others. If you go with your gut, right or wrong, good or bad, it will be better than going in half-assed or going off another man's thoughts. You have to answer to yourself in these dogs. EWO