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EQIDIUSKENNEL · SLOVAKIA

Guide

When is the best day to mate a German Shepherd female?

There is no fixed day: every female, and every heat, is different. In Ján Sudimák’s experience a failed mating is usually not the stud’s fault, and he never relies on counting days alone. He reads several signs together and has the day confirmed by a veterinary test.

By Ján Sudimák International judge for conformation and performance, breed survey commissioner (Körmeister), with German Shepherds since 1963, founder of the Eqidius kennel in Bardejov, Slovakia.

What the book covers

Chapter XIV of the book describes the signs he watches, how he uses the male and the test, and what decades of matings in his kennel have taught him, with his own table of matings and how he prepares a female before her heat.

This is the author’s own practice. Agree deworming and vaccination with your vet.