How do they choose who's the right couple for each other?
Is cross breeding bad?
How does cross breeding work?
How will you know what to expect in the puppies?
So far these are the questions that are on my mind but feel free to add more information!
Please no hate! I'm simply asking a question.
Answer
Verulam:
The answer to this would be long and even then only touch on this subject. When you are bit older, you'll have had time to educate yourself more about all this.
Just to say
1. When you start, you need to identify which breed you'd like to share your life with.
2. Once you have decided this, you need to get your hands on a top quality b itch of that breed, if you can, letting the breeder know what you hope to get into and then you set about rearing her to the age she can be shown.
3. Once she has some good wins under her belt, to prove her quality (not all puppies achieve their early promise) then you take her back to her breeder and with her acting as your mentor, you take her advice re which stud dog would be right for her. It's NOT a question of choosing any dog that happens to be convenient to get to. We travelled for 12 hours, from Canada to US, to use the dog I'd seen up in Canada at a show, and liked. And having checked his pedigree, felt he could be right for my bitch.
4. Mix breeding is not needed. Yes, it might make money because the naive public are being persuaded they are better than purebred dogs. Not so. Messing around with breeds that took generations and years to breed true, is very irresponsible, and only done by BYBs out to make money.
5. Having done your research, with the help of your mentor, you should see what you hope to see in the puppies although breeding livestock can always throw up surprises.
You have a lot of time yet, if you are 14, before you get into any of this. For the record, we bought our first hound with NO intention of getting into showing or breeding.
However I did, but quickly discovered our first was just a pet. We thought we had the next Crufts BIS! Once we'd been in a ring a few times and realised what we had in our first hound, we'd joined the Breed Club and met a lady showing a lovely puppy.
She agreed to do a repeat mating and let me have pick male. He was successful in the ring by which time the bug had bitten and we started looking for a b itch to become our foundation b itch.
This all took 5 years and then another 2 before she was ready to be mated. Yes, we could/should have gone for a top quality b itch first, but we didn't. And the rest is history.
If you think you'll make a living out of breeding - take my word for it, you won't.
We have been lucky over the years, to break even with perhaps a couple of good puppies to take into the next generation. You'll need a good job to support your dog breeding hobby.
Tika:
Find a breed that speaks to your heart. Learn about it (AKC Complete
Dog Book is a good start). Join the breed's parent club.
Attend shows
and competitions to see the breed firsthand and develop connections to
fanciers and breeders.
Then purchase one of your own. By then you
should have acquired a sense of your responsibility to the future of the
breed and can educate your self on genetics, reproduction, and raising a
litter.
JenVT:
Dog breeding is not a way to make a living- rather it's a very
expensive hobby. If you are interested in this get involved in showing
or working dogs (contact your local kennel club) and see if you can get
hooked up with a mentor. You can see first hand what goes into it,
Paul:
then do research , lots of research in books and on the net ......then
in 2 years find yourself a mentor .....watch learn help with your mentor
for another 2 years ......get your own dogs when you are 18 years old .
more helping doing learning for another 2 years ..... THEN YOU MIGHT
KNOW ANOUGH TO BREED BY YOURSELF .... up to this point you have already
spent 2 to 4 thousand dollars for supplies and health care for your dogs
.......there is no money to be made breeding dogs ....
Source(s):
breeder for 18 years .... always in the red ...broke even 2 times in 18 years
Lorraine:
Listen to what the others are telling you and certainly don't even
consider this as a career, or making a living. You either have to be
right at the top of your game to do that and I mean have dogs that you
are selling for thousands (trained) or, you are a puppy mill.
