In the late 70's a lady, who had a vision for improving the orthopedics
of our breed, was promoting the idea of evaluating the progeny at age 2
yr. before considering breeding either the sire or dam again. This was
in the day of trying to get breeders to xray breeding stock for hip
dysplasia.
Hip evaluations eventually became an accepted practice and opened the
door to elbows, eyes, thyroid, Vwb, heart.... B-G and Ron's database
have been instrumental in sharing information on relatives, meaning
sibs, half sibs, aunts, uncles in addition to parents, grandparents to
help breeders with breeding decisions. With the population of Berners
on a high in the year 2003, maybe breeders might consider waiting for 2
years before breeding either the dam or sire again...... maybe that
might lead to increased longevity as 2 years is a long time to wait with
a breed whose life expectancy is 7......
There are some repro vets who claim that a bitch can and should be bred
every heat cycle. In the wild nature probably would have handled an
over abundance of offspring, but in today's society we really don't need
that many puppies.....of any breed.
April Rifenburg
- breeding William Withey
- Breeding strodes
- Re: Breeding gwebara
- Re: Breeding BernerFolk
- Re: Breeding BernerFolk
- Re: Breeding Sharon Montville
- re: breeding Ruth Reynolds
- Timing on Second breedings April & Ervin Rifenburg
- Timing on Second breedings gabig
- Re: Timing on Second breedings Mary-Ann Bowman
- Breed Selection Rose Tierney
- Re: Timing on Second breedings Joan N Robinson
- Re: Timing on Second breeding... gabig
- Dawn's post on PennHip Rose Tierney