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It seems like everybody i have talked to last several years has had trouble getting gyps bred i know in last few years I have bred few outside females and got zero puppies out of my cur dogs bred one gyp that one side of her is my dogs the other side not she took he has 2 young dogs that several people has told me doing really well i finally raised a litter out of my black gyp this year I borrowed a black male i use to have to bred a gyp for my buddy and she only had 1 puppy

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Sometimes they just don't cycle right I guess, the progesterone test would confirm that.  But I have been told the progesterone tests for AI breeding are suggested to be in multiples so they can determine the optimal time as the hormone levels can vary from female to female. Seems like they told me 13-17 was typical, but I am not positive it has been so long ago.

Clue, I just went thru the same thing. The best dog on my place is a female I call Cypress. A real cold nosed bear and hog dog. she just dosent need help in any department. When she was a 2 year old a friend of mine was hunting her in New Mexico and she came in heat. He brought her to me and we tried to breed her. She fought us tooth and nail and I just assumed we waited too long and she was out of heat. I skipped her next cycle because I didnt need any pups at the time. She waited a year and a 1/2 and came in heat and I waited about 10 days from when  she first started bleeding and again just fought us and we didnt get it done. Next time I am going to take her to the Vet and do a progesterone test and have her AI ed .

 I used 2 different males, both mature, one of them had been bred extensively, the other had not been bred. Had raised a litter out of the one that had been bred and one of the females. The one that had been bred is an aggressive breeder, the one that had not been bred paid them little attention, leading me to believe they weren't ready, so I kept trying them every 48 hrs.

That’s a weird one for sure. Are you trying to breed them to the same stud or different studs? If it’s the same stud, maybe it’s something they know about him that they won’t allow him to cover. I know we’ve had studs that wouldn’t hardly pay a female any attention when she came in until the day that she was ready to accept a male. From that day on they were all about her until she quit accepting m, but I hey sure wouldn’t bother with her until she was exactly ready. Maybe these females are going through something similar. The environment/ climate can definitely play a role. It affects other species why wouldn’t it affect a dog? YEARS ago I had a fella bring a pit gyp to me to breed to my old Simba dog. He said she was a bad hussy when it came to time to be bred, that she would eat a male dog up that tried to cover her. We put her on a chain in the back yard and turned him into her. Now he’s the kind that would not put his mouth on a female unless she actually hurt him and even then it was only enough to check her. They start smelling each other and he gets excited and goes to mount her and she lit into him. He persisted and it just kept on that way for a few minutes and finally she got ahold and drew blood. He reared up and just like a human would do, slapped her and knocked her down then stood over her until she submitted. When he let her up she stood and let him have his way. That guy nor myself had ever seen a game of dominance like that. He was a mature stud at that time. I don’t know if your stud(s) are young or not? I was told that those ovulation tests for women would work on dogs. You use to be able to get them from Walmart. I don’t know if you still can or not.


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 I know it's a reach, but all I could imagine is that due to the heat and drought they may had already backed off the estrogen and bumped up the progesterone way early in the cycle, making what would normally be the right time to breed, too late.

    Have recently attempted to breed to mature females that are not too old. Put both of them "at separate times" up when swollen and bleeding, tried them every other day with an aggressive breeding dog and they never did flag nor stand, and continued to fight the dog. One of the females has raised 2 litters and was no problem to breed, the other has raised 1 litter and was a bit grouchy the whole way through but I could hold her until contact was made and everything was fine. There has been no change in the keep here in years, it has me scratching my head but I guess maybe unbeknownst to me I just don't need those crosses, haha.

Sounds like a good time minus the mosquitos

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That’s a nice trip loaded with variety, that hunt we had in that slough I think I swallowed a bushel basket of skeeters. Cold temps can’t get here quick enough for me.