For first time yorkie owners breeding their yorkies: The best help you can give is to leave the animals alone. If either or both are nervous, prevent panic and stop them from hurting each other by some gentle, soothing talk.
Some monogamous female yorkie will accept only one specific male of their choice and may violently refuse others. This seems a trait inherited from the wild, since many canines show this tendency. In general, however, females are relatively indiscriminate in their...
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The best time to diagnose yorkie pregnancy is three to three and a half weeks after breeding. At this stage, the veterinarian can feel puppies as tiny lumps or bumps. Before and after this, it is more difficult.
If the yorkie bitch carries the puppies high in the back of her ribs, it may be hard to tell if she is pregnant or not.
The nipples usually show the first change. They will become red and slightly puffy, though they will not fill out until the seventh or eighth week. The abdomen itself...
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Sometimes a yorkie puppy will arrive with no sign of life. If you feel a pulse beat under the forearm, start the puppy breathing by blowing steadily into his mouth – this way the lungs can be sufficiently expanded to supply necessary oxygen.
Then suck and expel your breath. Inhale, and repeat. Slap the newborn yorkie pup vigorously, and then swing it slowly back and forth ten times. Wait a second or two for a gasp. If there isn’t one, swing again.
There are times in whelping when a...
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Your yorkie pup needs more frequent feeding than an older dog because his stomach isn’t large enough to hold all the food required for proper growth.
A yorkie puppy up to six months is better off with three meals a day, then two meals until one year, and then one or two meals thereafter.
However, if you cannot be home for these three feedings, give your yorkie puppy two meals a day – one in the morning and one in the evening. Then when he is six to nine months old, cut him down to a couple...
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Line-breeding method is the safest course in mating yorkies. This kind of breeding is to be performed with utmost care and caution because when it succeeds, it partakes much of the nature of in-breeding.
At any rate, its main purpose is the pairing of like genes. Here, the pedigrees come into use: we examine the yorkie bitch that is to be bred and we hope that all the dogs named in it are magnificent dogs, but we look them over and choose the best of the four grandparents.
Now, we check this...
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