Breeding dogs

It is amazing how slow and how fast time goes by.

My last blog was the end of March. Since then , all the pups I had have gone to their forever families and I am waiting for several new litters to show up. Figgy and Hot Ticket are both about ready to have pups. We did transcervical insemination on Ellie but some how it didn’t work out and she didn’t get pregnant, disappointing a lot of people. I just got word that She’s Got the Look has started her heat cycle and she will be ready for breeding with Hank next week.

Many people are, I think, un aware of the heat cycle in which dogs can be bred.

The female comes into her cycle about once every 6 months. The cycle has started when the female is spotting ( sorry about the breeder talk, but you are reading so I guess you wanted to know the gory details! ) , meaning that a small amount of discharge is coming from the vagina. She will also put off a pheromone that attracts the male dog. Someplace between day 9-13 the time will be right, the female will stand for the male and the male will have the drive to inseminate the female . When everything is right, the dogs breed and pups are produced.

Pups cannot be produced on demand. The time has to be right for the female to conceive and there are only a couple of days during the cycle, that the female goes into about once every 6 months, when this can happen. That is just how it works. Patience. Time goes by so slow !

At Brown’s Labradoodles we breed our females 4 times and then they retire. That means you always have to be getting new pups to put in the pipeline. When a female comes out, you need one that is of breeding age to go back in.

My little dogs Muggins and Izzy will be retiring this year. It seems like we just got them but this year will be their 4th litter and they are all done. Time goes by so fast!

Kali, Bailey, Harriet, Zelda, Girtie and others will be stepping up and becoming mama’s. I am getting a little red male from Ashford Manor that will weigh 15-20 pounds when he is full grown. He will be mixed in along with Hank and Jax. It is a exciting time with a lot going on and I am looking forward to the great pups we will produce for the families who love them.