my plan is no more than 4 litters per queen. although maybe just one if the queen is not a good mum etc, or whatever the reason. i think it's a who knows kinda answer

I think I shall spay her when she is six whatever happens as I prefer to keep her with me in a long healthy retirement rather than keep on making her have litters. My queens are first and foremost, my little girls, my pets.

Kind regards

Rita
Love this latter statement Rita-and spoken from the heart

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I think it depends on the queen and her health, just get them checked out by your vet first they are all different, some go longer than others

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I retire my Girls at 2 -3 yrs old The Oldest girl I have bred from is 4.

I retire them between 2 and 3 because they are still young.

Caterina

PS I am new here I breed Bengals and have been for the past 5 yrs.

Hello and welcome to you and your furgang Caterina-good to have youNow you have to do the decent thing and post us some pics-plzz

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hey caterina

morning kelly hows your lot today ??

woot 6 more days lol

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5 More!!!

Did you get my mail Stacey?

hey Stacey-sorry not been able to get on pc as oh is doing the website-but our lot are fine-except our 2 choccies are in full vocal swing at the moGreat for the neighbors and is suppose i could try and teach them to really harmonize Under a week eh?? OMG can you beleive she's nearly with you-bet your lads excited too

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woooot 5 more days lol yes thank you caterina i got the pictures omg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they are great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


hey kelly
yes not long now sooo excited lol and i told him him and he said she is not allowed in his room pmsl lol he has been hiding cars just in case lol
tell oh that being on here is more important lol

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Interesting thread!

Hmm. Well.. I had planned to retire my queens at the maximum age of six. HOWEVER... I've got some older girls coming to kick start my Savannah breeding programme (early gen Savannahs mature later than SBTs and can be harder to breed) - and I think my oldest one is five.

So, I've been having a think about the arbitrary deadline I set myself.

What I think I will do is retire the girls when they seem to be sick of the breeding life. Perhaps their litters get smaller, perhaps the girl is fed up with feeding.. I'll know when I see it.

Obviously if mum doesn't take to breeding I will spay her before age comes into play at all. I've spayed two girls so far - both splendid Bengals, but one developed Pyo on her second pregnancy after having a c-section with her first, and the other had a very small (and ultimately not-viable) second litter.
They are both now very pampuuuuuuuured pusses.

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