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To my surprise I had a litter of 19 this past weekend. Just curious if anyone else has had anything similar in size? Never heard of a litter this big.

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To my surprise I had a litter of 19 this past weekend. Just curious if anyone else has had anything similar in size? Never heard of a litter this big.

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Registered: Oct 2013
Location: Maryland
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I had a buddy back years ago with a Plott female. She had three litters. Each litter was like 14 puppies. She was a small dog too, like 50 pounds if that. Just about every time 3 or 4 of them would die though. I don't think she ever raised a full litter and he even tried to hand feed them.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Kalamazoo, Mich.
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Years ago my wife's family bred their yellow female Lab to a black male Lab and she raised 16 black pups. I remember being shocked by the number of pups and that out of that many she didn't throw one yellow.

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Registered: Jun 2003
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Had a female have 16 once and raised 13 of them.

There was an article in Coonhound Bloodlines years back of a female having over 20 pups, they bottle fed most of them. Maybe TK can find that issue and post it for us. I'm sure he's not busy anyway.

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Congrats on your new pups!

Derek Metzler from Cambridge Springs, PA area had a litter of 17 out of his Skinny female a few years back, she had 8 live and the rest were C-Section babies I believe.

My biggest litter thus far was 12.

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Registered: Jun 2003
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The biggest litter I have seen was 14 and all lived. The female separated the litter into 2 groups of 7. She would nurse one group and then get up and nurse the other group. She did this all on her own.

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Years ago, there was a photo in the newspaper showing an American Foxhound female and her litter of 24 puppies!!

I am also aware of at least one St. Bernard that had a litter of 24...

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