MaryAndDobes

According to the Canadian KC studbook, he was born Jan 10, 1996.

Dobemom2b

I do not know the source of the info on doberman review, I just copied it from the page there that I linked to.

Retta

I beleive your question was regarding the safety of using a male "dog" for numerous breedings??? It is just like anything else, proper animal husbandry! A male can start producing pups, (have fertile sperm) even at 8 months of age, up until he is in his teens. One dog may be more fertile, than another. The closeness of breedings has an affect on how fertile a dog is, as it takes him at least 24 hrs to "recoup" his level of viable sperm after breeding a bitch. The sperm he uses up today was forming maybe 6 weeks ago. Then it is stored in the prostatic fluid. But if something happens between the time it is formed to the time it is stored, like an illness or high fever, then he has to start over. Now then you have the drawing times, that a dog is collected and the sperm are divided into pellets or straws! To make a long story short, a dog can be bred "hundreds" of times in his entire life time, if he is healthy, and fed good quality food, and gets the proper exercise, and is monitored consistently by a vet that deals in reproduction. And then you got the fact that when breeding numerous bitches he is susceptible to std's, so the stud dog owner, should be careful about who his dog is used on. That alone could have an unhealty impact on the number of breedings he can do.!!!!

gracieface

thanks Retta for getting back to the original question, I have wondered that too, especially when you hear about some dogs that brought in $50000 a year in stud fees!

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