How Many Puppies can a Dog Have?
What is the normal amount? How about the average number of puppies in a litter? |
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| A litter can range from 1 to nearly 20, with 6 about average. A friend called me yesterday, their breeder from whom they will be getting an new OES puppy......just had a bitch whelp 15 OES puppies.....all fine, but a very busy Mom....and breeder. |
15 is rare in OES. 10-12 would be considered a large litter. Any more than that and you're lucky not to lose any puppies. 15 makes me faint   Litter sizes have been decreasing in the breed overall, 15 puppy litter not withstanding.  5-7 is considered a nice size by most, I think. Some of that is related to waiting to breed a bitch until mature enough to have undergone all health testing, and in a breed with multiple conditions that are late onset, later is better for the breed, not so good for the bitch or the breeder. There's always a tradeoff.Kristine |
| We've had as many as 9 since I started to co-breed with Cathy. She said her largest litter before that was 13. Many, many moons ago. I would say 5-7 is average nowadays. José was from a litter of 7. |
OK.....SO....this leads me to a question  If you breed a dog multiple times(for one breeding) do you get more puppies? You know I know nothing about breeding but, I heard of this being done with a very small Yorkie that had 5 pups  |
Donner's Mom wrote: OK.....SO....this leads me to a question If you breed a dog multiple times(for one breeding) do you get more puppies? You know I know nothing about breeding but, I heard of this being done with a very small Yorkie that had 5 pups You generally breed them 3 different days when doing a natural breeding in hopes of covering the days the eggs are dropping & becoming fertile. I guess the bottom line is there are only so many eggs dropped that can be fertilized. |
| Thanks Marilyn...I had no clue!!!!!!!!!! That makes more sense to me... I leave all that up to the experts!  |
| of the 15, 4 females, the rest boys. I don't know the breeder, only she is outside of Chicago. My friend wants a female and has first choice as they just lost their older bitch. |
In the Tri-state area (New Jersey/Pennsylvania/Delaware there was a Golden Retriever who delivered 18 pups last week. The story was on the local News and it mentioned the same dog had a litter of 15 just last year! YIPES X 33=!!!!!!!!!!  |
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