Pups Born

[rowland]

Join our free community today.

Connect with other like-minded dog lovers!

Login or Register

Geoff Fletchers sprint geryhound had 7 pups last night dad being sugar fire 3 bitchs 4 dogs, most will know she has been staying with me after Geoff suffered two heart attacks, mum and pups are doing well, :cheers:

 

[rowland]

just been weighing pups at 4 days old bitch's 15oz to 1lb 4oz dogs 1lb 2oz to 1lb 6oz they are doing very well and the geryhound is a very good mum

 

[sherry]

mickey whizz was 1 lb 2 oz at one day old lol :lol:

 

[rowland]

well it looks like they could go as big has Geoff wants then,

 

[Fleesh]

mickey whizz was 1 lb 2 oz at one day old lol

Ahhh but Moany Moany was 1lb at two days old, twice the size of Naz's Warrior and now look at them .

 

[Honeybee]

We have a theory, which we have always used as a "guide". Whatever the pup weighs as 12 weeks, double that weight, and you are within a pound of their racing weight. Saxon Duke at 12 weeks weighed 21 lb - his racing weight is 42 lbs. So people wanting a "scratch dog" at 12 weeks they need to be at least 18lbs. This theory we found works providing you do not try and keep the weight off the pups. Afterall, you only "get out what you put in"

 

[Vicky]

We have a theory, which we have always used as a "guide".  Whatever the pup weighs as 12 weeks, double that weight, and you are within a pound of their racing weight.  Saxon Duke at 12 weeks weighed 21 lb - his racing weight is 42 lbs.  So people wanting a "scratch dog" at 12 weeks they need to be at least  18lbs.  This theory we found works providing you do not try and keep the weight off the pups.  Afterall, you only "get out what you put in" 

Ahhhh now this is a topic we've never had before - weights.

I agree honeybee that 12 weeks is the best time to get a good "guide" weight, we've had dogs be tiny up until 8 weeks & then shoot up. The last litter we bred the biggest which runs at 34/36 was just over half the weight of my bitch Ella (30lb) at 4 weeks he only weighed 2lb 10oz whereas she weighed 5lb.

Double the weight at 12 weeks & add 1lb is what we (people who breed at our club) have used. I must say it's been wrong on some of my dogs (but that could possibly be that you tend not to keep the club racers at their "ideal" racing weight?) but was not far out for Ella, she was 14lb 3oz at 12 weeks (probably the first & only time she's been "textbook" )

It'll be interesting to see if anyone else has a different way of working it out.

 

[mutley]

blue goblin and slippy blue were both over a pound born (w00t)

 

[sherry]

somebody told me that one weigh your dog at 13 weeks double it gives u a rough guide then someone else said double it and add 15 lb lol well neither of these worked with mickey whizz @ 13 weeks old he weighed 15 lbs doubling it wud have made him 30 to 31lb even doubling it and adding a 15lb wud have made 45lb to 46lb... he weighs 50lb lol

whisper whizz @ 13 weeks actually weighed 18lb now he weighs less than mickey whizz weighing in @ 46lb and we find it hard to keep the weight on him he gets more to eat than mickey whizz lol so what happened to the guidelines there? or r my dogs just freaks? lol gorgeous freaks i mite add lol

 

[Fleesh]

At 6mths old and weighing just about 15lb we were told Connors Lass would be lucky to make racing weight lol :lol: ...

Then like magic she suddenly put on about 8lbs in 10 weeks meaning that by 8mths of age she was about 23lb.

 

[tanyia]

You just cant tell blue goblin and slippy blue where massive. Mayhem from her second litter was tiny he turn out 26-27lb his sister was much bigger at six mouths old she turned out 22lb

 

[milly]

Just to let you all know that the one's we kept back made 39lbs and 52lbs :lol: