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Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 5:00 pm
by BirdbyBird
Pictures as promised. I took them this morning after their vet visit. They are still in the "We just look like funny colored gerbils!" faze.

I drove down last night so that I could stay with them over night and Lyn could get a good night's sleep after being up for a day and a half..... :)

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Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 5:10 pm
by mitch5252
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OHMAHGOSH - they are so cute. I still don't get how you get puppies that color from a mother her color.
BUt who cares - they are just adorable!

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Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 5:37 pm
by VickieP
Awwww

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 5:58 pm
by BirdbyBird
The color genes that makes an orange roan or a reds are all recessive. If you produce red or OR you know that they received a recessive from both sire and dam. Both dogs have to carry for the recessive in order to get the color to be expressed in any of the puppies. The solid black and the Blue Roan color genes are dominant. I don't think the sire this time even "carries" for OR but he had never been used before so if there is an OR anywhere back in the generations behind him it can be be passed along as a hidden recessive for generations until it finds another recessive. (Just think of it as high school biology class about genetics! :lol: :lol: )

When Blondie (an orange roan) was bred to Izzy's sire who was a blue roan.....we knew that Nickolas carried for Orange Roan.....Then you deal with statistical probability as to if the gene with match up and be expressed. Three of the four pups in that litter where OR.....a much higher percentage than average.....

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 6:10 pm
by retiredhappy
Ooooooh, puppy breath, does anything smell as sweet!!!

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 8:11 pm
by avalen
OMG :D cuteness cuteness x4

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 11:07 pm
by Redwahine
Adorable :P

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:34 am
by Bethers
oh oh oh oh oh, they are soooooooooooooo adorable.

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 5:39 am
by Liz
And look they were born with collars on! :lol:

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:13 am
by mitch5252
Liz wrote:And look they were born with collars on! :lol:

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LOLOL - and just how many of you had to scroll back up and look?
(I did...)
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Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:26 am
by Sandersmr
Are the ribbons so you can tell them apart? They are adorable!

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:27 pm
by Nasoosie
I LOVE puppy breath!

What a beauteous litter! And the mom was so good to put those collars on them so she could tell them apart!

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:16 pm
by BirdbyBird
Lyn put the ribbons on so she could identify them quickly. By saturday she could identify them by their spots and dots. That and the one boy quickly got the nick name " the big guy". :)

Te first week or so, they get weighed twice a day to be sure that all that nursing is really working for them. If a pups begins to have trouble one of the first signs is lack of weight gain. It helps to be able to track their progress individually.

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:04 pm
by BarbaraRose
They look like teensie cows! :lol:

I have never smelled puppy breath. I know that dog breath is horrendous, tho! :roll:

Re: Izzy pups 2 days old

PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:44 pm
by bluepinecones
Have you piked your new pup out yet?