Well its a wives tale but I let a heavy bred gyp bay at the pen a bit outside the fence so she can't get banged up.
Have had to bad of luck with hunting bred gyps especially if she gets her tits cut up and infected prior to having them pups.
Guess it would be compared to the principle of folks reading to unborn children.
Dont know if it made any kind of difference but sure didn't hurt em.
Good looking gyp. Hope she throws plenty of healthy pups for ya and at least one Yeller. Lol
Thanks for the info everyone! More so than reading to an unborn child, that is strictly a mental aspect... But physical activity is something totally different. Your muscles have to be stressed and worked to grow, plain and simple. Alternating your heartbeat is what really causes stress on the body and the good physical changes to it. I'm On my iPhone so it's hard to break down and explain how muscle and physical stamina really relate to heart rate and good stress but it does correlate. My question is how can the mothers raised heart rate while hunting not contribute over into a positive manner for the pups. I understand the safe thing to do would be to keep her up and she will be as long as I don't hung this weekend. But I can't help but believe (my biology and chemistry major kicking in) that the physical activity as long as it isn't taken overboard can't benefit the pups...
