Repeat Matings

[weasle 1,119]

Heard it said that a repeat mating is not as successful as the first,doesn't make sense to me, but dont have any experience of it,Just wondering what others have found?

[roybo 2,873]

Can't see why it would be any different

Same genes going into the mix ,the genes don't know its been a repeat mating.

[Rabbiting man 1,192]

I'm not the one for repeat matings myself. I would rather my bitch working than in pup. I've seem pups bred form a repeat mating they worked just as good as the pups from the first mating.

[pernod 466]

Think whoever you heard that from is talking pants. Humans repeat mating all the time. Im sure the results would be just the same in the animal world...

 

pernod.

[Themoocher 231]

Maybe different owners would have something to do with the pups success

[nothernlite 18,090]

  On 20/04/2014 at 08:57, weasle said:

Heard it said that a repeat mating is not as successful as the first,doesn't make sense to me, but dont have any experience of it,Just wondering what others have found?

  On 20/04/2014 at 08:57, weasle said:

Heard it said that a repeat mating is not as successful as the first,doesn't make sense to me, but dont have any experience of it,Just wondering what others have found?

in the summer time edidted to say wrong quote meant to rabbiting mans post Edited April 20, 2014 by nothernlite

[wirral countryman 2,110]

Weasle,I have done lots of repeat matings with my terriers, in fact I have a bitch now with a litter due to drop for the third time with the same dog (sire),they are never exactly the same in my opinion but they are similar, as either the bitch or dog gets older the quality of the resulting litter deteriorates, a good stud dog carries what is known as "pre-potency" enabling him to produce good litters even with a mediocre bitch, we are bound by the genetics of the 2 dogs put together at the end of the day and its in our own interests to find the best parents available when considering breeding a litter, I have a pup off both the previous matings and have been very happy with their progress so can predict with some certainty the quality of the expected litter, WM

[Neal 1,875]

In my humble opinion, the pups from repeated matings should be fairly similar for the reasons stated above. However, if the pups were linebred then, with one or more elements being prepotent, the resultant litter(s) would be more likely to be more even. I hasten to add that I don't speak from experience.

[Rabbiting man 1,192]

  On 20/04/2014 at 09:39, nothernlite said:

 

  On 20/04/2014 at 08:57, weasle said:

Heard it said that a repeat mating is not as successful as the first,doesn't make sense to me, but dont have any experience of it,Just wondering what others have found?

  On 20/04/2014 at 08:57, weasle said:

Heard it said that a repeat mating is not as successful as the first,doesn't make sense to me, but dont have any experience of it,Just wondering what others have found?

in the summer time edidted to say wrong quote meant to rabbiting mans post

 

I don't know where you going with Summer time. What I meant is if I bred from my bitch then it's once not twice.

[whitefeet4190 1,729]

  On 20/04/2014 at 09:23, pernod said:

Think whoever you heard that from is talking pants. Humans repeat mating all the time. Im sure the results would be just the same in the animal world...

 

pernod.

Humans do repeate mate but they all turn out different some have the brains some have the looks some are acidemicly better than others, they are all different so repeate matings could go either way as with any mating

[MickC 1,825]

Depends if the pups from the repeat mating are going to the same owners as the pups from the original litter. Everyone does things there own way when bringing pups on and in different hands you will get different results.

[stabba 10,745]

Or the repeat litter will always be compared to the first(especially if the first litter was outstanding). Often times we compare fido to old shep and poor old fido never seems to live up to old shep's achievements. Hard to explain but you get the gist.

[weasle 1,119]

  On 20/04/2014 at 12:50, stabba said:

Or the repeat litter will always be compared to the first(especially if the first litter was outstanding). Often times we compare fido to old shep and poor old fido never seems to live up to old shep's achievements. Hard to explain but you get the gist.

Could be right there.

[dan john 82]

I repeated mating with my terriers first litter ok but second one was really good litter really healthy and strong pups keeped one back only 7 months old and showing good to the bushing side atb

[the goat 642]

  On 20/04/2014 at 09:46, wirral countryman said:

Weasle,I have done lots of repeat matings with my terriers, in fact I have a bitch now with a litter due to drop for the third time with the same dog (sire),they are never exactly the same in my opinion but they are similar, as either the bitch or dog gets older the quality of the resulting litter deteriorates, a good stud dog carries what is known as "pre-potency" enabling him to produce good litters even with a mediocre bitch, we are bound by the genetics of the 2 dogs put together at the end of the day and its in our own interests to find the best parents available when considering breeding a litter, I have a pup off both the previous matings and have been very happy with their progress so can predict with some certainty the quality of the expected litter, WM

so are you trying to say that if a dog is 2 year old and covers a bitch the pups will be better than if he was 6-7-8 year old...?