i would want to know if two dogs from the same litter can mate sucessfully and give birth . i had an arguement with ma vet

Originally Posted by ajaolode

i would want to know if two dogs from the same litter can mate sucessfully and give birth . i had an arguement with ma vet

I heard they can, but there is a great risk of birth de-fects as in in-breeding in any species... Rather not...

Yes they can. What was it that you and the vet were arguing. My friend owns a wonderful working/conformation dog down from brother/sister breeding and no she didn't a birth defect. The only thing inbreeding does is increase the risk of hereditary diseases. But then again so does breeding unrelated, if you don't know what your doing don't do it. Inbreeding makes it a higher risk because of like material so you need to know the health history before doing so.

Breeding related or unrelated dogs carrying genetic defects will cause the pups so have these defects so its not just inbreeding. So please know what you are doing beforehand.

Also not all birth defects are genetic they can be caused by poor health physical health of the mom, a fluke, injury sustained during pregnancy and twins tend to have birth defects in some cases. So this wouldn't matter if the dogs were inbred or not.

I have one female that is 12 generations linebred/inbred tight and has an outcross and a few brother/sister breedings and half sibling breedings and she is looking very promising along with the rest of the litter. My best male in a 4 generation pedigree which is 30 dogs has only has 17 different dogs I believe.

Yeah...If it's sucessful it's called "linebreeding" if not it's "inbreeding". It is only done for very specific reasons and should only be done by someone who knows exactly what they're doing and breeding for. Not just because the dogs are both available. I wouldn't recommend it just for the average dog but it does work well within some lines.

I am sorry, but maybe I can start something here. I think that is why most breeds are now so shall we say, "down hill"? GSD's are skinny and have about half the hair they should have. Labs, well they are visious now. Stop the line breeding and start fixing the breeds to make them better!!!!