Corey Gruver
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Registered: Jun 2014
Location: PA
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Personally, I have bred 7 females and raised 5 litters from those 7. Only one of those breedings was an AI and it was successful (8 pups from a 8 year old female).
One of the unsuccessful breedings I conducted was because my female contracted Lyme disease right around the same time of breeding. The 2nd unsuccessful breeding was for unknown reasons.
What I have learned from breeding this many litters is that every female is different, and a general "rule of thumb" might not always work with your particular female. When I had an artificial breeding done, Dean Bitzel told me that my female would not be ready to breed until day 17 of her heat cycle. I had raised two litters from this female prior and bred her from day 7-10 onward. I would have called him a liar, had he not helped me successfully whelp 8 pups.
I had a Feist gyp once that stood for a male two days after beginning to bleed and whelped four beautiful pups.
There is a lot I (and others) have to learn about breeding, but what I will agree with is, HAVE A GAME PLAN AND STICK TO IT!
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