In today's pet craze, the dividends brought by pets have increased the pet breeding market. Many people think that pet breeding can easily earn a lot of money. In fact, it requires a lot of hard work and sweat!

Before you start breeding, you may still think about planning a self-driving trip with your dog every year; on a leisurely afternoon, drinking coffee and watching a TV series, the puppy is a little lazy being basked in the sun. However, since I started breeding, I have basically been unable to leave the kennel. Even if I go out, I want to go back as soon as possible.

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In the past, it was enough to just buy a small toy. After opening a kennel, going to the store was a complete meal. Whether it was nutrition, dog food, toys or other related items, multiple portions were needed instead of just one or two portions.

Breeding is very expensive. In addition, there are various expenses such as the introduction of breeding dogs, kennel space, entry fees, etc. Therefore, breeders jokingly call themselves "high-end servants".

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But in fact, true reproduction cannot be achieved by just having money.

In addition to money, you also need experience

When you pay a high price to introduce a breeding dog, the background is very good, but if the nutrition is not up to par, it may also cause many problems. For female dogs, if some nutrients, such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, etc. are out of balance for a long time, it will affect the growth and development of the dog.

For example, if the female dog is deficient in vitamins A, D and E, it may cause embryonic dysfunction, poor fetal development, and the female dog will refuse to feed after delivery. The same is true for male dogs. Without balanced nutritional maintenance, male dogs cannot remain strong, lively and have high fertility.

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Whether the female dog has successfully conceived after mating, or whether the female dog is not pregnant or is falsely pregnant, requires breeders to have certain experience to distinguish. If the female dog is successfully pregnant, care during pregnancy is also very important. The female dog will have different situations at each stage.

The diet of female dogs at different stages is different: in the early stage, the appetite may increase greatly, how should we control the diet; in the middle and later stages, how should we change the feeding method so that the female dog can better absorb and digest nutrients.

These things, if you have experience, you can easily distinguish or solve these situations.

In addition to experience, you must also have knowledge

Breeding is not about just two dogs mating or breeding. What we need to consider is the matching of male and female dogs so that the puppies born can not be affected by the genetic factors we know.Troubled by illness.

If both parties have genes that carry recessive genetic diseases, there is a corresponding probability that their offspring will develop genetic diseases.

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In-line breeding may be a good way to enhance the original advantages of the dog, but it will inevitably involve other genes, and these genes are likely to strengthen the original shortcomings of the dog.

When pursuing perfection in dogs, we should pay more attention to the genes of the dog. If a dog is genetically defective, no matter how beautiful he is or how classic his type, he is defective. These dogs can be kept freely as pets, but caution must be exercised if used for breeding.

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The purpose of establishing standards is to maintain dog welfare. If these basically avoidable health problems cannot be achieved, how can we trust breeders to contribute to dog welfare?

In addition to knowledge, you also need "luck"

Breeding, to put it bluntly, means following the guidelines of the breed standard and striving for perfection. In reality, you will never get the perfect dog, but you still have to get as close to it as possible.

In order to achieve this goal, there are many breeders in the world who have struggled for many years, but they still cannot predict reproduction 100%. This is because reproduction is not only artificial selection, but also "natural selection."

Just like the previous example of in-line breeding, when you breed and choose to retain/enhance the desired appearance characteristics, you will inevitably involve many other genes without knowing it. These genes are not intentionally selected by us. We can understand this part as "natural selection".

We can understand this part as "luck". This part of the influence is also very important when there is a solid foundation. In most cases, we cannot speculate on its direction. However, when selecting breeding dogs, the unexpected phenotypes of some littermates may give us a certain understanding of the genetic status of the breeding dog.

Before breeding, I felt that breeders were just freelancers drinking coffee at home, collecting deposits, and just updating the status of dogs on social platforms. But when you actually get in touch, you will find that what they want to learn may be all the life sciences involved in the life cycle of dogs. You have to take good care of the furry babies as if they were your own sons, for fear that they would be hungry or sick, which would break an old mother’s heart!