The bitch has one to two heat cycles per year. The duration of the anestrus seems to have, in part, a genetic basis (race- and animal-dependent).
The involution of the endometrium (histological) is not complete until 5 months after estrus, whether the bitch was pregnant or not. The heat induced in the 4 months post-metostrus is less fertile than normal
Infertility is broadly defined as a repeated failure (at least two attempts) to reproduce:
We will detail the different insemination methods, the ideal number of inseminations, and the optimal time to inseminate.
Insufficient progesterone secretion during gestation that can lead to early (resorption) and late (abortion) abortion.
Luteal insufficiency is very largely over-diagnosed and bitches are over-treated.
In our breeding centre (CRECS), where we have been following hundreds of bitches per year for more than 20 years, we confirm the suspected luteal deficiencies only in a very limited number of cases! Nevertheless, this pathology exists and must be detected early!
Pseudo-pregnancy lactation (pseudocyesis), and/or nervous pregnancy, is a physiological syndrome that occurs in non-pregnant dogs at the end of the diestrus, about two months after heat.
Acute mastitis is primarily a postpartum accident but can very occasionally be observed during pseudogestation lactation.
The objective of this article is to give you information justified by scientific and statistical data, as well as the practice of our specialized breeding center (CRECS), and those reported by the breeders we have been following for more than 20 years.
Knowing how to recognize a dystocia is first and foremost about controlling the conditions of a "normal" birth: date, duration, etc.
Key steps in managing an apparently "difficult" birth are: a comprehensive collection of memorials, clinical evaluation of the bitch and her fetuses, and the importance of litter survival to the owner..
The genital system of domestic carnivores, although similar to that of other mammals (vagina, uterus, oviducts and ovaries), has features that increase the prevalence of uterine pathologies:
