Puppy Weight V Eventual Height

[Rachel]

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Hi all,

just picking your collective brains - does the comparative weight of a pup have any bearing on its eventual size/height when adult? I've just bred a 10oz girlie with 9oz brothers and 8oz sisters - she has a longer frame but is now equal to her sisters in weight @ 3wks - will she be a big un? I've already got one of those so I've got my fingers and toes crossed for small to medium!!! )

TIA Rachel

 

[wild whippies]

Not aware of any height formulas but there are plenty of theories on what a pups finished racing weight will be.

Having had one pup that was supposed to be 40lb turning out 26lb and more recently a pup that we thought would struggle to reach 18lb turn out 32lb, I definately reserve judgement on their accuracy!! :lol:

I've added an excel graph of our pups weights from the past 15 years.

Hope this works!

 

[wild whippies]

Finished ''racing'' weights

Tim - 26lb

Barney - 21lb

Gyp - 22lb

Beef - 48lb

Tiger - 31lb

Misty 30lb

Ella 29lb

Amber 36lb

Eddie - 27lb

Solo - 34lb

K.B. - 40lb

Smooby - 37lb

Ozzy - 36lb

Jack 42lb

Fudge 26lb

Bobby - 31lb

Evie - 26lb

Erin - 27lb

Sasha - 35lb (she has myostatin muscle related hypertrophy i.e. a bully whippet) Really she should be excluded as she's an anamoly.

Pixel 31lb

Stan 28lb

Teddy 36lb

Gudd 40lb

Benson 45lb

 

[wild whippies]

Ooops! Forgot to add Jenny (26lb)

Personally, I would say the biggest clue to size will be when the pups are weaned and weight gain is monitored. Steep increases in weight gain and plenty of bone substance on the pup are usually the big clues.

I should point out these are non-ped racing whippets so what you consider small, medium and large are massively different for me.

The other matter is that peds size discrepancies span a smaller range which would probably make identifying the smallest in the litter even more difficult.

 

[T Hoare]

It can depend, a litter of mine some years ago had 7 pups & heaviest pup at 24 hours old was a bitch & she ended up the smallest in height as an adult.

But then sometimes a big pup born will stay a big pup.

 

[TTT]

So it would be safe to predict that it will be what it will be? (w00t)

 

[Rachel]

So it would be safe to predict that it will be what it will be? (w00t)

Thank you Wildwhippies and Tracy - and TTT - lol

I'm hugely impressed with the graph - another good excuse for idling my hours away at my computer! I do weigh mine compulsively.

But Wildwhippies, 48lb Beef? surely that was not a whippet weight? AND Sascha the 'bully whippet' - I've several times found a bully whippet or is it a greyhound on google images and always imagined it was computer generated - was she allowed to race?

Apologies if I've got this all wrong - I was just intrigued with Tim's list!

I look forward to being enlightened!

Rachel - ever curious! :*

 

[Seraphina]

I have seen weedy little pups ending up tall and not particularly fine, huge heavy boned pups i thought are going to be huge and too coarse, ending up quite ordinary. You need to take into account the size of the litter; pups from small litter may be big and fat, litter of 10 may have much smaller birth and weaning size/weight. But both will end up within their genetic make-up margins. Hope that makes sense

 

[haycroft]

not sure when they are pups but i was told that once a pup is approx 13 weeks old,double their weight and add a lb = adult weight

done this with my youngest which with this theroy would of been 28lb,she almost a year old and weighing at 24lb

agree with seraphina..depending on size of litter etc

 

[wild whippies]

So it would be safe to predict that it will be what it will be? (w00t)

Thank you Wildwhippies and Tracy - and TTT - lol

I'm hugely impressed with the graph - another good excuse for idling my hours away at my computer! I do weigh mine compulsively.

But Wildwhippies, 48lb Beef? surely that was not a whippet weight? AND Sascha the 'bully whippet' - I've several times found a bully whippet or is it a greyhound on google images and always imagined it was computer generated - was she allowed to race?

Apologies if I've got this all wrong - I was just intrigued with Tim's list!

I look forward to being enlightened!

Rachel - ever curious! :*

Hi Rachel,

Non-peds have various quantities of greyhound in them. How it is expressed is extremely variable but for the sake of simplicity, Beef was 1/4 GHD. Benson is 1/16 GHD which is more unusual considering he's 45lb.

Bully whippets can race, some have been racing champions. It's been proven that whippets carrying one copy of the mutation are faster animals so naturally there are many racing whippets that carry one copy of the mutation. The mutation is recessive so even deliberately breeding 2 partial carriers does not guarantee a bully whippet. (I should point out, but many on here know, Sasha was from an accidental mating)

I really should get some more recent piks and do a thread on here as folk are always fascinated with her.