Preparing a female dog for breeding in best possible way.
The female gets in to the heat season every five, six, seven or eight months.
Approximately around one month before heat we need to start with her preparation for breeding.
Necessary things to do look like:
- One month before heat deworming
Treatment against parasite is very important for few reasons,
We need to do vaccine after deworming, we need our just born puppies to be out of parasites so they can progress well.
- Vaccination 5-1, protection for five disease in one vaccine.
The canine 5-in-1 vaccine includes protection against canine distemper virus (indicated by the letter D), two types of adenovirus, aka hepatitis and kennel cough (named A, A2, or H), parainfluenza (P), and parvovirus (P).
Ten days after deworming, we must carry out vaccination.
A vaccine contains weakened pathogens, which are introduced into the body, with the aim of stimulating the animal’s immune system. After vaccination, the dog’s immune system creates specific antibodies against certain pathogens, with which it is ready to successfully “fight” the disease agent in the future.
Good body response upon vaccination means well developed antibodies and it is possible only if we do deworming before it.
- Vagina bacteria test .
This test is taking example from vagina and taking it to Vet or Human laboratory, I will explain how to do it properly.
The example must be taken very carefully – use one hand to spread the vagina because the stick must not touch the outside of the vagina.
The outside of the vagina is full of bacteria, so the stick must go inside directly about 7 cm. Take the example from the walls of the inside of the vagina with circular moves of the stick. We need to get the stick out also without touching anything else but the inside of the vagina.
We must use the stick intended for it. It can be bought in any Lab. pharmacy. For the test results, we wait around 3 days.
The bacteria test must be done at least 15 to 10 days before breeding so that we have time to do treatment if needed.
We don’t want to have a female under therapy with antibiotics during breeding because it can be harmful to fertilized egg cells.
If we use natural breeding I always do one more bacteria test 10 days before breeding.
There is always chance that the female get again bacteria after breeding from the male.
- Progesterone test
Progesterone is steroid hormone which plays major role in female pregnancy besides other things.
Level of progesterone in some females rise gradually.
If we have female and it’s her first time breeding age 14, 16, 24 months or whenever then we should start checking progesterone level by 5th day after blooding start and every third day.
Sometimes I do progesterone every two days but some time even every day.
We need progesterone more then 12, 13 and lower than 20.
Any results between 12ng/ml and 20ng/ml is ok for breeding.
The book says any progesterone level over five and five a female can stay pregnant, but that’s too early.
In most cases when progesterone is around five, six, seven physically vagina is not open enough and can be very painful and stressful for the female.
From my experience and other breeders biggest number of puppies we can expect if do breeding on results around 17 to 20ng/ml.
Some females can have not gradually rising progesterone.
Breeding can be insemination or natural, insemination is when vet. take the male semen and put directly in uterus or natural breeding when male jump on the female .
I am preferring insemination for few reasons.
- Protect the female from getting bacteria from the male
Especially today when we have hyper production and the males bred a lot females.
It’s not only about number of the females it’s about how bad shape and dirty females come to the breeding.
- Less stressful for the female.
I do all this job as one of services for other people, so when somebody bring me a small female dog and want breed with huge male, physically is very hard to do breeding ‘’ female 37 kg male 60 kg “.
When is summer time that can be very hard work?
So insemination is my favorite in this situation. Of course I do natural breeding when situation is different, when I have strong female and use male who did not breed many females so his owner is very choosy.