hilaryo

I lost a puppy early evening.... Just after dinner I took the kids out in the back yard for 5 minutes and when I came inside one had gotten behind the pig rails and crawled behind her, she squashed her.

RIP beautiful girl, you were needed elsewhere.

Needless to say I didn't sleep at all last night, I'm so paranoid she's going to do it again. This is not the first time, last litter I lost 2 for the same reason. I have been extremely vigilant with her, watching her ever so closely, I'm so gutted and angry at myself

Sorry for the loss of baby girl!

You can't blame yourself. It's almost impossible to not take your eye of them for a few minutes. We all need 2 of ourselves to do rotating shifts ;)

The "drop" for us is always down in the 36 range. Accurate everytime and labour has started within 12 hours!

Thanks hilaryo.

Thanks for the tip about months open - I thought that was a bit odd.

Wen you toilet them do you use a wet cotton wool ball?

Anything will do! A wet one or wash cloth but run it under warm water, although you don't have to. Wipe it gently around from between the legs through to the anus for a couple of minutes. If they need to go they stop fighting and start sort of pushing.

I'm another that think the pups may be too warm. They keep their mouths open and will cry.

If your pups seem uncomfortable I always toilet them - just in case. Sometimes mum does a good job with the urine but doesn't lick long or low enough for the poos.

6 days old and all doing well thanks to there wonderful mum Blondie :)

Please excuse the whelping box. The bedding does get changed twice a day ;)

Here is quick photo of Lucy & babies. All 6 are doing well :)

Love the photo!

Congratulations on the beautiful new bubs

Here we are at 17 days old.

The bitch is in the 3rd photo.

Oh they are so cute ;)

CC with her 7 day old babies. Mum and pups all doing well!

That's a lot of pups!

Beautiful mum and babies :)

A late but big edition to the March litters!'

Last night our Blondie have birth to 11 puppies. The xray said 8 so it was a bit unexpected although she was huge. 2 were born still looking waxen but fully formed and not tiny so must have only died recently. To be honest with 9 little mouths to feed and her first litter its not a such a bad thing. That's a lot of babies for a beagle with the average being 4-7. They are only small but very strong and have put on 15-20 each in their first 12-16 hours.

5 Lemons - 4 girls and 1 boy - we wanted a lemon bitch so very happy with that.

4 tris - 2 girls and 2 boys

In between pups being born, put any pups onto mum to suckle, only removing when she starts to get restless for the next birth.

If she's agreeable of course.

A torch essential for toileting during first stage labour at night!

Best of luck. Exciting but scary :D

My bitch has had 3 sections but none of them have been her fault! The last was elective due to her age. She comes from a line of free whelping bitches.

Before mating for the last litter she was declared fit and well by the vet which included bloods as she was 7.5 years.

Only one of her daughter's has whelped a litter as yet. She was carrying two puppies - first puppy was huge and breech and got stuck and died unfortunately. Second was a repeat of the first but they managed to get her out and revive her.

Four of her daughters will possibly be whelping within the next 12-18 months so will be interesting. Although the genetics contributed from the sire would count equally surely!

Sounds hopeful! Fingers crossed for sweet Tess!

My other dogs don't steal food, have never benched surfed (not that Cherry could get up there... LOL) but Daisy is just something else entirely! LOL :)

In your first post I knew it had to be Daisy :laugh:

Beagles are the worst aren’t they. Most untrustworthy when you're back is turned.

Kelscat will love her as one of her own, I am sure.

You've done such a wonderful job with Pearl you should be feeling really pleased with yourself

Thanks Clyde, my sister is picking up Pearl tomorrow and i for one can't wait to get

my hands on her! She is just lovely and im sure she will be very happy here with us

until she is ready to be rehomed!

Hi Kelscats, I hope you will continue the story of Pearl with updates on who she is doing :)

I've enjoyed reading this topic Carlo11.

You've done alot for Pearl! Just think if you hadn't worried about her goodness knows what would have happened to her

So very sorry Huntia

OMG what a nightmare for you schwarzbear

So sorry for the loss of your puppies and continuing struggle with the remaining affected puppy!

May I ask how the reation progressed from the rash on the ears?

We've got puppies being vaccinated this week with the C3.

I can't help feeling soooo angry at the breeder for leting that puppy go to you in that condition.

Even if the puppy is younger than 8 weeks - in fact even if he was only 6 weeks, he doesn't look like a normal healthy 6 week old puppy from any breed in my opinion. He looks like he's been not doing well from birth in which case the breeder should never had sold him to you

I've seen other small for age puppies of various breeds and none of them look abnormal, just small.

As others have mentioned he should be fed a super premium puppy food with extras. Lots of small meals daily to increase his calorie intake as he will not be able to eat enough food (calories) in 3 meals a day to increase his size/weight.

It's great news that the vets have given him the all clear :)

Good luck with him!

I caught this picture of Beagle puppy zoomies - very cute too

:D Beagles are great zoomers!

My two 8 year olds still do zoomies late in the afternoon. A lot of the time I have 'extras' here and they love to chase each other.

Far out, between the unwelcome and the abtruse its a wonder newbies hang in there at all

SLF, if you are prog testing and you get a couple of natural matings preferably with a tie, over a few days, I'd leave it at that.

But if you get only slip matings, then I'd go for a couple of fresh AI's

If you have any concerns, you could always do a fresh collection of the boy and have a look at the semen quality.

welcome to the breeders forum :)

fifi

Sensible advice as usual Fifi ;)

I chose other as it depends on what time of day we are away.

Day time: loose in the backyard (unless the weather is really awful).

Night time: loose in the house

Same here!

dogs have sex - they have sex when they are ready - if they get pregnant they have puppies 9 weeks later. Its unusual for dogs who do have natural sex not to get pregnant , you don't need a specialist unless you have an out of the ordinary issue. You just need to let them do what they think is best .An AI should be the last resort and only with good reasons because often dogs don't have sex for their own good reason.

In healthy dogs mating is a natural instinct and only occurs when its time - the sperm hangs around for a fair while and the system is designed to ensure maximum chance at a pregnancy better to let the dogs decide when that time is where possible rather than a test. You can test if its a case of wanting to be more sure of when if the male isnt there all the time but its a much nicer deal if you ask them each day and allow them to tell you if that's possible.

Or you can - flare your nostrils and pinch the bulb end of your nose - notice the way it feels, then pinch the top of your lip and take note of the difference.

When your bitch's vulva feels like your top lip rather than the bulb of your flared nose its time to mate.

You dont automatically become a better breeder if you interfer any more than you need to.

Have to agree with Steve!

Maybe we've been lucky but we've never had a bitch miss with a natural mating. Frozen AI - 2 attempts and 2 misses.

I guess progesterone if you are not confident in timing. Is the stud dog owner experienced? Maybe leave your bitch with her/him for a few days.

Good luck :)

Show beagles have been known to get it, particularly when away from home and bathed late in the day when it is cold. Then then they are confined in a crate or trailer. I recommend blow drying the tail area, both the tail and all around the base. Can't hide it in the ring with beagles as they must have an erect tail :D

We are keeping both of Macey's boys at this stage as we are very happy with how they are developing :)

First up is Harry

Oscar