Within an individual breed standard of course!! trying to compare studs at the middle and higher weights of a breed standard. Would love to hear any experience's on this, many thanks.

My own personal experience, is on both our litter I used males that were middle range in the breed standard, mum is at the top end, in both litters we had larger males and middle size females. I think our female had more influence to be honest.

Mo

Don't know how true it is but I was always told that it depends more on the mother.

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My female is at the lower end, stud is at the high end. Reason I am so interested is the stud now has 'clear' SM scans in 3 generation's - quite something!!! and the line is know for good hearts.

Should have made this post clearer - it's the whelping I am concerned about - the size of pups verus size of Mum, have asked around and opinions differ.

I would have thought if they are the same breed, and there is not a drastic difference in size, it shoulnt matter, males are usually bigger than females in any breed.

mo

in my breed a larger breed it doesn't make any difference.
I suppose in a small breed it could be a problem, if mum was minute and dad was massive. i don't know for sure maybe someone who has a small breed on here could clarify it..

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I always stick to breed standard but i do prefear the boy to be a little smaller if im honest

Im with Cav on this one, as regards small breeds (not sure about larger breeds), but i will hopefully be mating my Cavaliers next year subject to health test results etc, so to play safe for my females first time i would opt for a smaller male, or at least one of the same size to hopefully prevent any birthing problems, i wouldnt be so worried if she had already had a litter but for a maiden i would deff go for a smaller male.

This is just my opinion and the way I will be doing things, I'm sure there will be more experienced breeders that can help too.

I asked the same thing the other day,as i have 2 toy poodles but my male is bigger than my female.You might like to have a look.

Who Are The Pups Likely To Take After?

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