Breeding Management

Question 1

How often do dogs cycle?

Answer 1

1-2 times/year or every 4-12 months

Question 2

What is unique about dog’s oocytes and ovulation timing?

Answer 2

Their primary oocytes cannot be fertilized, they need to be secondary oocytes to be fertilized

Question 3

Bitch pregnancy length after breeding

Answer 3

About 70 days after breeding

Question 4

How soon can you ultrasound a bitch post - ovulation? Abdominal palpation?

Answer 4

28 days for ultrasound and day 25-30 for abdominal palpation

Question 5

Briefly explain Canine Brucellosis

Answer 5

Brucellosis is transmitted by mucous membranes, saliva, urine,etc. and caused abortion due to placentitis. It may also a cause orchitis/epidiymitis in males. This disease is a problem because it is non-treatable and carriers are asymptomatic for life. The best test available is the Cornell Multiplex
Test.

Question 6

What 4 things must a semen evaluation include?

Answer 6

1. Color and clarity
2. Total motility and progressive motility
3. Morphology
4. Concentration

Question 7

If prostatic fluid is red what do we suspect?

Answer 7

Prostatitis but not always

Question 8

If semen is pink/red what 2 things do we suspect?

Answer 8

1. BPH
2. Broken blood vessels on the surface of the penis

Question 9

Outline routine breeding management

Answer 9

Observe the bitch for vulvar discharge -> this is considered day one. Then you need to identify the first day of standing estrus (when progesterone is increasing and estrus decreasing). Then breed every 2-3 days until the bitch is no longer standing. Typically they’ll breed on day 10, 12, and 14.