Too Much Mating Impact on German Shepherd Male - Page 2

This is a picture of a Boston Terrier who was being 'over-used'...

Ibrahim, no, that is a very unrealistic scenario. How many females would it take to require a breeding to the same male every other day all year?

Thank you Joanro, that is what I thought but I wanted to make sure, so to OP it is okay to mate a stud every other day keeping in mind maximum total number of matings in a month or in a year. This maximum total matings in a year accepted by SV is 60 as mentioned above, maybe that is a figure to base on your stud service frequency, I will take a chance and say the lesser matings the better for the stud.
Again thank you Joanro for the clarification.

Ibrahim

Every other day for a year is really unlikely. The OP was asking in terms of one breeding female, I thought; as in, how much is too much for one female in one heat cycle, not as general principle for the male's whole life.

Maybe I'm wrong. 

 

Maybe you are correct Jenni, but what I understood from the OP is a stud service business for long term.
Anyhow either way things are clear now for OP and for us who had doubts about it.

Ibrahim

 

if i had a stud i would not stud him out that much,  i think i  would go once a week at most for studding. 

If you look at nature you would see that dogs usually only have a few chances each year to breed any available females. So i you only had two dogs on a island with all the food, water and shelter they would need to survive without human intervention. He would only get lucky for about a week or two twice a year. In that time he might breed the female several times a day or until her hormones tell her she's pregnant and then she will fight off his advances. (Almost all animal species do this)
While the male can produce millions of sperm, only so many are ready to go on any given day and after a few breeding in a short time he will tap out the well. I think it's about 65 to 70 days for the male body to produce mature sperm. But they are always maturing at different rates. Old sperm is passed out in the urine because they are no longer viable.
So i you bred a dog every other day for a long period of time you would reduce his viability to produce pups. = small litters. But i don't think it would kill him and if it did well he'd die happy.

Trixx, "studding" once a week per bitch? Or once a week per breeding? That ain't right. smh and LOL &:-)

I thought Trixx meant if she owned a stud and he was used on outside females, she would limit it to one female per week. 

Not a horrible practice, in all fairness; I used a stud twice that, I found out later, was being used by the owner the same days. My litters were the only small ones she ever had- 3 & 4. The litters they had with their bitch at the same time were ungodly huge...I think 14 & 17 or something...

So, it's probably safe to say my girl got whatever he had left those days;-). Sperm takes approx. 20-24 hours to replenish fully, longer on an older male, so limiting bitches at one time is a nice service for the bitch's owner who is paying the fee. 

Jenny, what i read was "once a week" , not 'one a week'. Anyway, I agree with you.