Home of the Geachiman blood.

Did a little repurposing today. Been needing to get rid of a futon couch. Also need to get around to making 2 whelping areas. Only 4 more weeks and my pups will be here. Started on the first one today. Not finished yet but sturdy enough to hold Harley while shes inside and can't be free in the main part of the house.. It's done except for making it not look like an eyesore in my basement.

Pardon my basement walls. Resealing and painting has been on my I'll get to it eventually list. Lol




Not the prettiest thing but it'll work. Put screws in the bottom of the wood making contact with the floor so no chance of urine soaking in. In the amount of time it took me to do this I had new shingling put on my houses roof and they finished 3 hours before me lol. I'm not the handiest person.

 

If it serves the purpose, mission accomplished!! Get it pretty next time, if there is one

 

If you don’t mine my asking, what was the largest number of dogs you needed to maintain in your personal breeding pool in order to get to where you wanted today?

Also what do use as a whelping box? Kind of unrelated to this thread, but do you subscribe to the theory of slippery surfaces may negatively affect joint development(hips, elbows) of newborn pups?

 

I use a whelping box. It's up on its side on the left side of the last picture. I have a month before I need it in the pen though. I have 2 of them. The crate is just for her to sleep in currently while she is indoors and has no pups yet.. The pups can't get out of the box until they are around 3 or 4 weeks old. Shortly after that, they going out in a kennel with a crushed limestone flooring, known more popularly as manufactured sand..

Have had a few litters over the years. No issue with joints other than canoeing ones I rolled. Lol.

They don't spend their lives on it bro, just a week or 2. They don't sleep on it either. They go back in the whelping box and are on pine shavings, straw or cedar.

Not much different than having pups in an above ground pen.

And yes, if a dog is on a hard surface constantly it will affect the joints, primarily at the contact points when laying down. They don't spend enough time on it for any of that though. If it wasn't the end of winter they'd be born out in the kennels. It's 18 degrees out here right now so that isn't happening for at least 2 months.

 

Here are of few set ups I've used over the years.

















No issue with joint problems or any other health issues for that matter.

My only issue here is a sever lack of space.

 

In the last photo how are those pups bred?

 

I typically just want something I can put up and take down easily that will serve It's purpose efficiently for me as far as cleaning it goes. As well as ensure containment. If they get loose it wouldn't be too a big a deal since they still can't go no where or run into an adult and nothing too dangerous to them is within their reach in my basement so it works.

They aint coming upstairs on the carpet so they deal just fine... Lol

Having puppies in your home is not an easy task. Being OCD makes it just that much harder of a task. Especially with a forced air furnace and a litter in the basement.

Having them outside would be the ideal thing but since I have late summer/ fall breeding chances, it just don't work out at that way due to our cold weather.

I'm going to have an amish built 10'x25' building built out back to have 5x5' kennels inside that go into 5x15' outside runs. Everything is here except the building itself.

I just had to convert from chain set ups last year to kennels so the huge expense to do so was something I had not planned for ever having to do since chain spots are the 100% best way to keep these dogs if they aren't your house pet.

Legally though, my hands are tied. This is only temporary. I won't be doing any breeding after these 2 litters for at least 2 or 3 years. By then the building will be up, heated and this won't be an issue for me again. I've done it this way though for 23 years. Never really had an issue other than It's time consuming. Much more so than if they were outside.

 

Geachison x Lil miss geach

 

Those are some really nice looking pups !

 

As far as how many dogs it took me to get here today, well thats easy, I can name you every dog that directly effects this yard so lets count and see since I've never figured it out. Or tried to figure it out I should say.

M.I.A
Geachiman
Geachison
Lil Miss Geach
Bella donna
Odio puro
Pumpkin
Harley

Thats it.

That's just my personal dogs needed as far as gene poole goes.

Then I have dogs with several trustworthy people that are littermates, offspring etc of those dogs I listed that are doing crosses to their blood where as I inbreed/linebreed on my own. They are doing the work for me of outcrossing into their lines, while I tighten it down with mine. We'll use each other when we need to make a outcross. I have never kept more than 11 dogs at one time ever and my yard usually only consists of 5 to 8.

It's a slow process if your bound by limiting how many you can legally keep and have a strict standard. I live in a city, not rural at all so 20+ dog yards aren't possible unless you enjoy being raided. Plus selection of the pair takes years for them to tell you they are even worth breeding.

A large yard is not needed for what I am doing. Having access to other yards though is..... Which I have plenty of those so it works for me.

It allows me to be much more strick on what stays and what goes on to other yards. What gets bred or what gets culled. I don't have time or space for sub par. On a large yard I would.

 

Thanks,
Lol they all come out look like that bro. The one thing I can say is I never produced and ugly pup. Them geachison offspring grandkids etc are all shit brickhouses.

West has the 2 on the left, billy bo bob and double trouble and the female on the right SMK Banshee was lost in a yard accident with an adult on SMKs yard when she was 6 months old.
Billy bo bob is huge. Upper 60s. Beautiful seal colored dog. Trouble looks good too but shes only like 38 maybe 40 lbs.

 

It takes even longer when you figure once a dog can make it to 3 years old here, it will almost certainly never leave here. My main dogs are getting old but they still take up a spot. Makes things challenging when talking numbers.

 

That first litter of 4 look like quadruplets. That’s strong genes and consistency

 

The 2 on the left grown.

 

Here they come!



And so it continues.......

 

Pumpkin is all done now and doing great. 5 healthy active pups.

 

Beautiful set up, 1st class breeding, AGK & family are working hard , smart . Congratulations ..

 

Everyone's doing well. Pumpkin is a great mother. Pups are growing, eating good and very active, when awake lol.

 

AGK, are you willing to stud out Geachison? Or sell a male pup? Off of him.