MY BREEDING PRACTICE:

I prefer to keep my females in the program for a longer time and breed them once per year, to different males, over a longer period. This ensures that enough progeny can be kept from the VERY best mating. If a female cycles very often, I follow the Merk Vetrinary Manual instructions and breed her in short intervals, keep offspring and retire her at young age. This will protect her from cystic endometriosis and pyometra. A female that is bred with this method miight then be available for adoption early. Generally my girls are retired after reliable offspring for the continuation of the lines has been obtained.