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What is the earliest anyone has ever had a female whelp pups and raise them? I have a female Collie go 10 days early and raised 8 of the 10.

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Those Collie dogs make good momma's don't they? I had a bitch go a week early and raise 6 out of 6. Was her first litter.

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Most of the time my dogs are pretty close to their projected due date, but if pushed to answer your question I don't think I have had a female more than 4-5 days early.

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Those Collie dogs make good momma's don't they?

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Wow! It seems that more then just me have also have a female whelp as early as 53 days and the pups lived. Autumn has 9 days to go til the due date of her first breeding. We shall see...she went overdue the first time by 2 days and the second time by 4 days.

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If they are too early or late, Id wonder, because Its Mommas Baby and Daddies Maybe.

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i have a kenell near me that raises 1 or2 litters a year would you like me to check for you they have some real nice collies

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normal litter 10 days early 'i don't think so rhese pups may or maynot be from the intended sire however 10 days is an awful short gestation period to have normal pups. i think in these circumstanses the female was bred before they thought she was i have a female lab that would take the male from the 8th day of heat till the 18th day of heat i called her tramp but boy could she produce some good working lab pups i usually take just three litters from a female during there life this one had 4 due to her crazy cycles i never knew she was in heat the last litter but wondered why my male walked around with a smile

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Wayne,

Please do check with them. I really would like another Collie, but all the kennels I checked out on the web had 2 or 3 sheets of application forms to fill out. Asking everything but my underwear and bra size. Then you had to have them fixed, blah, blah, blah. If I'm paying good money for a dog, I feel it should be my right to choose to breed or not to breed them. No where on any of the sites was a price listed, I'm thinking $700 - $1000 and I'm sorry, I ain't paying that. Not for a pup! No matter how badly I want one.

On a side note. The female in my original post was not bred to any other dog, but the male she had puppies to. I know that for a fact. She was bred on her 12, 13, and 14 day. She had her pups 10 days early, no bigger then mice and raised 8 of them.

I had a Rottie female get bred on her 12th day only and went 70 days, whelped 9 pups and rasied them all.

I hope and pray that Autumn doesn't pull her stunt of going overdue, retain a placenta for 2 -3 days and have to have Oxytocin shots for 2 - 3 days. She did it in both prior litters, evil witch, she knows I drive myself nuts till they are a week old.

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