And she's also a small breed, so she's like to mature faster than most other breeds
I think you mean slower. My vet said the same to me - she wont spay my female until she's had a season because it makes everything easier to find.
And she's also a small breed, so she's like to mature faster than most other breeds
I think you mean slower. My vet said the same to me - she wont spay my female until she's had a season because it makes everything easier to find.
I think you mean slower. My vet said the same to me - she wont spay my female until she's had a season because it makes everything easier to find.
I think you mean slower. My vet said the same to me - she wont spay my female until she's had a season because it makes everything easier to find.
Any idea what those tests showed - the rabbit advice seems to vary from 2-7 weeks so it'd be interesting to see where the results of those tests were on that continuum. Which advice is based on dogs? 2 weeks or 7 weeks, or something else?
I guess what I'm getting at is yes, we must err on the side of caution - but what does that mean? There's a huge difference between 2-7 weeks for a margin of error, especially in an animal that no longer has any reproductive organs!
(PS sorry for hijacking your thread!)
I think you mean slower. My vet said the same to me - she wont spay my female until she's had a season because it makes everything easier to find.
I think you mean slower. My vet said the same to me - she wont spay my female until she's had a season because it makes everything easier to find.
Scanning around for research into this I found this rather lengthy old document, if anyone can be bothered to read it (i've only scanned it)
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/4/2/155.pdf
Ooooh that's really interesting even if it is from 1926 :shock: Thank you It does indeed show that the sperm could still be alive after several weeks :shock:
It looks as if they tied off the tubes but left the testicles in that experiment though - I know I sound sceptical (well, I am! :lol but I wonder if keeping the testicles, and therefore the hormones, makes a difference to the residual 'shelf life' of remaining sperm. I wonder if this has been tested out more recently taking more modern techniques into account :?
I did mean what I said. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but smaller breeds of rabbits (netherland dwarfs, holland lops, etc) will sexually mature faster (4-5 months) than a larger breed (giants), who matures as late as 6-8 months. I'm pretty sure I've read that in several places.
I would agree that smaller breeds mature faster than larger ones.