subject: Blending Knowledge And Luck To Create The Perfect Dog Breed [print this page] For the purposes of this article, the "backyard breeders" who take their two beloved pets and produce puppies will be disregarded. This article is about professionals who make puppies out of ideal and isolated single breeds. That's right, this articles if about professional breeders and not those who take it as a leisurely pursuit.
The puppies born out of good dog breeding are those that are by and large superior to their parents. Humans generally do not select two people to mate and create offspring, but as a dog breeder you can. It isn't exactly rocket science, but you'd have to consider a number of genetic factors while planning to breed.
First and foremost is securing the best representative of your intended breed. You'd never find a truthfully outstanding breeding female put up for sale because it's totally invaluable. The next in line may occasionally come up for sale, but depending on the breed, her cost can be as high as $50,000 for some breeds. You'd never get a perfect puppy out of imperfect parent dogs; sometimes even stellar parents won't do it. So you must put every possible dollar and effort into purchasing the very best female you can afford.
Professional dog breeding can present you with more than just a few tribulations. First of all, you could come across more than a few candidates offering you many young dogs in this aggressive enterprise. Second, every dog breeding will risk the life of your female. Third, you very well may end up with no puppies either through lack of conception, puppies dying inside the uterus, or puppies dying soon after being born due to a multitude of possible afflictions. And finally, even when you get it right, you are going to be spending a lot of money in the process.
When the dog is in heat, you'd have to spend much on measuring its progesterone levels; but long before then, other veterinary tests, such as blood analysis and uterine exams, will have to be carried out extensively. You will also need to pay for the use or a top quality stud dog, which can range anywhere from $500-$5000 with no guarantees of success. And should your female dog get pregnant, you could be looking at added expenses in visits to the veterinary doctor's, sometimes necessitated when the bitch get lethargic, sick, or loses its appetite. And on the off chance that she makes it to the end of the lying-in period, more expenses may have to come out of you as you take her in for an x-ray or sonogram to count the puppies in her belly.
It must pique you just a bit that some backyard breeders could have a huge litter of puppies without any special effort or attention, whereas with all your hard work you may make no more than one or just a few - yet you would have loved to have more so that you could make all that money back.
