Setter Breedin': Round 2

When she’s ready she should throw that tail out of the way. Unless she does he’s fighting a losing battle. Although, from the pic it does look like she may have. Never seen one throw it up that high, though, usually curled to the side.

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When she’s ready she should throw that tail out of the way.

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That's the thing. We attempted this in the spring with an old male, and he was like, "To hell with this. She's a bitch." (pun intended). We chalked it up to bad timing...

So we had our date going into this heat and had her start of heat nailed on day 1 of bright red discharge. Friday was day 11 (Will accept stud during this period). These pics were from yesterday afternoon (Day 13). We are sticking with it and they should be brought back together here in the next hour or so. Hopefully her mood has changed... The breeder said he has never seen a female not stand at some point between days 11-15, but the window closes on Wednesday and the breeder is not optimistic due her demeanor in general. Outside of heat she is a wonderful dog.

Yeah, the first potlikker that comes around would probably be successful.

If she ain’t ready, you can’t convince her. Tried that with some foxhounds once. Stud dog was willing, she was not. After getting snapped at several times, he lost interest, so we brought in another female to get him going again and slipped the first one underneath, took us a few hours. Finally got it done and it was all for naught as she didn’t take. I had given her shots to bring her in, and maybe it was because of that it failed.