Breeding Golden Retrievers Is Serious Business
It is extremely difficult to start breeding golden retrievers if
you have never done it before. It is exceptionally complicated,
and not easy at all. One must never try to breed, unless they have
a real interest and a lot of knowledge in doing so. It is also not
fair to the coming litter if they turn out to be something they
are not supposed to be. You should never breed a few puppies to
make a fast buck. Several problems arise if the breeding is not
done properly, and there may be congenital defects in the puppies
which have not been weeded out by you. Good breeders always take
meticulous pains to ensure that they don’t pass on bad genes
to the offspring from its parents.
Breeding golden retrievers is a serious affair, and sometimes you
have to make a few very important choices, which can affect the
life or death of one or more animals. Even that is an expensive
issue, hence a lot of care goes into breeding golden retrievers
of good pedigree. You must have time to bear the responsibility
of the outcome of the breeding process.
As far as the dog is concerned, breeding may help fulfill the need
of a female golden, though the dog has no way of knowing what it
has been missing until having been bred. When a golden retriever
is pregnant, one needs to be extra careful. If you have spayed your
golden retriever, then she will not be able to breed at all. Quality
breeders have a lot of different choices. After a lot of consideration,
they will choose both the mother and father, based on their lineage,
intelligence, breeding, temperament and age. A good breeder will
take into account history of health problems, so that they can be
eliminated in the litter. They will also do a whole load of medical
tests to find out what the female’s medical history is, and
choose a male based on the results of the counterpart medical tests
for males. Males with genetically passable diseases will normally
automatically be rejected. He will have to spend a lot of time in
getting both the male and the female together. He may even have
to help facilitate the union between both the animals, in case they
are not mating as per schedule. This can often get tricky if both
animals are not your own.
The workload will increase for the breeder if the mother of the
litter proves to be unfit. If the mother is unable to feed the puppies,
then the breeder has to step in and help. Let me caution you - this
is a very difficult job. It will become the breeder's job to feed
the young and to keep them healthy. Besides this, breeders have
to incur expenses in getting the mother ready for delivery, as well
as taking care of the pups during the time they are with the breeder.
If you really want to get into breeding golden retrievers, study
up on the topic – the Internet provides a lot of helpful advice.
All the best!
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