When can a female pit mate with another pitbull??

my friend and i are planning to mate our pitbulls, mine is about a year and his is about 6 months,

Both dogs are too young right now since they are both younger than 2 years old. And since you don't know this, you shouldn't be breeding them. Aren't there enough homeless pit bulls out there already?

If you need money, get a real job, don't breed those poor PUPPIES.

dogs are CAPABLE of breeding anywhere from 6 to 9 months, but it's recommended that you wait until the females are 2 years of age. males can breed when they are sexually mature.

ATTENTION ALL NOVICE POTENTIAL BREEDERS!!!!!SO YOU WANT TO BE A BREEDER? - Breeding the femaleSo you want to breed your female. You know what to expect if everything goes right. Your little girl will present you with tiny bundles of joy. She will lovingly nurse them and care for them until they are old enough to be weaned.You and your family will find great joy in watching and playing with these little dolls, and then when the time is right they will all (or maybe you keep just one) go off to special homes to live out their lives as cherished companions. But have you given consideration to what if something goeswrong? I have listed here a few of the problems that I myself have personal knowledge of. Everything listed has happened either to me or someone I know. These are not isolated incidents. I'm sure other breeders could add miles to my list. Learn by others mistakes!. Let the breeding up to those who know what they are doing, have the experience, know what to expect.WHAT IF DURING THE BREEDING 1. The stud dog you have chosen is carrying a venereal disease and gives it to your female. She not only doesn't conceive but you have to pay the vet bills to get her infection cleared up and she is now sterile. 2. The stud dog you decided to breed your darling to is not experienced. Once the two dogs are joined tightly in a tie, he decides to chase the neighbors cat out of his yard. He bolts for the cat ripping his penis loose and causing your bitch to hemorrhage from within. 3. Your modest girl decides she doesn't want the attentions of this gigolo mutt chosen for her without her consent. She snaps at him catching her tooth on his loose cheek and rips it open sending blood flying everywhere. He retaliates by sinking his teeth into her left eye. 4. You leave your dog with the stud owner because the breeding is not going very swiftly. In fact , it's been three hours and nothing is happening. The stud owners leave the two dogs alone in the back yard. The dogs get out through a tiny hole in the fence and a truck hits your female. 5. You pay the $250-$1000 stud fee up front figuring you will make that and more back when the pups sell. The breeder guarantees the stud service to work or you can come back again. After 2 months you discover it didn't work and now must wait another 4 months to try again. Of course it doesn't work again, so in another 4 months you take your dog to another male and risk loosing another stud fee. 6. You get her bred. Bring her home. She bothers you so you let her out she is still in heat and still receptive to males. You hear a commotion outside there is your girl tied up with the neighborhood mutt. when she whelps there will need to be DNA tests done on the pups. 7. You get her bred. Bring her home and let her out. (She is still in heat and receptive to other males) but you do not see the neighborhood mutt breed her. The pups are born but look odd. You call the stud owner he suggests DNA testing (At your expense). You have a litter of mutts! What do you do about the ones you have already sold? 8. Or knowing she tied with the neighborhood mutt you decide to terminate the pregnancy and try again being more careful next time. But a few weeks later your female is very sick because you had her given a miss-mate shot creating a hormonal imbalance causing a uterine infection and now she has Pyometra and needs a complete hysterectomy. All plans of getting a litter is gone and your female's life is now in danger if she does not have the operation. WHAT IF DURING THE BIRTH 1. The puppies are too large for the female. She never goes into labor, the puppies die and she becomes infected by the decaying bodies. 2. The puppies are coming breech and they drown in their own sacks before they can be born. 3. The first puppy is large and breech. When it starts coming your female starts screaming, and before you can stop her she reaches around, grabs the puppy in her teeth and yanks it out killing it instantly. 4. A puppy gets stuck. Neither your female nor you can get it out. You have to race her to the vet. The vet can't get it out either. She has to have an emergency caesarian section of course it is 3:00 am Christmas day. 5. A puppy is coming out breech and dry (the water sack that protects them has burst). It gets stuck. Mom tries to help it out by clamping her teeth over one of the back legs. The head and shoulders are firmly caught. Mom pulls on the leg, hard, peeling the flesh from the leg and leaving a wiggling stump of bone. 6. A dead puppy gets stuck in the birth canal, but your female is well into hard labor. She contracts so hard trying to give birth that her uterus ruptures and she bleeds to death on the way to the vet. WHAT IF DIRECTLY AFTER THE BIRTH 1. The mother has no idea what to do with a puppy and she drops them out and walks away, leaving them in the sack to drown. 2. The mother takes one look at the puppies, decides they are disgusting droppings and tries to smother them in anything she can find to bury them in. 3. The mother gets too enthusiastic in her removal of the placenta and umbilical cord, and rips the cord out leaving a gushing hole pulsing blood all over you as you try in vain to stop the bleeding. 4. Or, she pulls on the cords so hard she disembowels the puppies as they are born and you have a box full of tiny, kicking babies with a tangle of guts the size of a walnut hanging from their stomachs. Of course all the babies must be put to sleep. 5. What if because of some Hormone deficiency she turns vicious allowing no one near her or the babies, who she refuses to nurse, or you have to interfere with. 6. You notice something protruding from her vagina when you let her out to pee. You take her to the vet to discover a prolapsed uterus, which needs to be removed. WHAT IF WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE IN THE CLEAR 1. One or more of the puppies inhaled fluid during birth, pneumonia develops and death occurs within 36 hours. 2. What if the mother's milk goes bad. You lose three of your four puppies before you discover what is wrong. You end up bottle feeding the remaining pup every two hours, day and night. After three days the puppy fades from infection and dies. 3. The puppies develop fading puppy syndrome you lose two. You bottle-feeding or tube feeding the last remaining baby. It begins to choke and despite your efforts to clear the airway, the pup stiffens and dies in your hands. 4. Your female develops mastitis and her breast ruptures. 5. Your female develops a uterine infection from a retained placenta. Her temperature soars to 105. You race her to the vet, he determines she must be spayed. He does the spay in an attempt to save her life, you pay the hundreds of dollars bill. The infection has gone into her blood stream. The infected milk kills all the puppies and the bitch succumbs a day later. 6. All the puppies are fine but following the birth the female develops a hormone imbalance. She becomes a fear biter and anytime anyone tries to touch her she viciously attacks them. 7. Mom and pups seem fine, the puppies are four weeks old and are at their cutest. However, one day one of the puppies disappears. You search everywhere but you can't find it. A few days later another puppy is gone. And another. You can't figure how on earth the puppies are getting out of their safe 4' x 4' puppy pen. Finally there is only one puppy left. The next morning you find the mother chomping contentedly on what is left of the last murdered puppy. WHAT IF THE NEW HOMES AREN'T SO HAPPY 1. You give a puppy to a friend. Their fence blows down so they tie the puppy outside while they go to work. A roving dog comes along and kills the puppy. Your friend calls you up to tell you about the poor little puppy and asks when you are having more puppies. 2. You sell a puppy to an acquaintance. The next time you see them you ask how the puppy is doing. They tell you that it soiled their new carpet so they took it to the pound 3. You sell a puppy to a friend (you give them a good price and payments). They make a couple of tiny payments. Six months later they move to an apartment. They ask you to take it back. You take it back and of course the payments stop. The dog they returned is so shy, and ill mannered from lack of socialization and training it takes you a year of work providing socializing and training to be able to give it away. 4. You sell a puppy to a wonderful home. They love her like one of the family. At a vet check done by their vet it is determined that the puppy has a heart murmur. (Your vet found nothing when he checked the puppy before it was sold.) They love their puppy and want the best for her. They have an expensive surgery done. The puppy is fine. They sue you for the medical costs. They win, because you did not have a contract stipulating conditions of guarantee and so as breeder you are responsible for the puppy's genetic health. 5. You give a puppy to your mother. She is thrilled. Two years later the puppy starts developing problems. It begins to develop odd symptoms and is suffering. Hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of tests later it is finally discovered that the dog is suffering from a terminal condition that was inherited. possibly from your female since you know nothing about her family lines. 6. One loving home decides your puppy is untrainable, destructive and wants to return the pup and get a full refund, which you have spent on your vet bills. 7. One loving couple calls you and is very upset because their pup has crippling hip dysplasia and want to know what you are going to do about it. You have spayed your female so a replacement is out of the question, looks like another refund. THE SALE 1. You put your ad in the local paper for your pups at the usual price and get only 2 responses and no sales. You cut the pup's price in half and broaden your advertising to 3 other newspapers in which the advertising totals $120.00 a week. 2. You get a few more puppy inquiries from people who ask all about health testing you did before breeding and if the pups are registered. You tell them your dogs are healthy and it was enough and that you could get the papers. The callers politely thank you and hang up. 3. The pups are now 4 months old and getting bigger , eating alot and their barking is really beginning to annoy the neighbors who call the police who inform you of the $150.00 noise by-law. 4. Your neighbors also call the humane society who comes out to inspect the care of your dogs. You pass inspection but end up feeling stressed and harassed. 5. You finally decide to give the rest of the litter away but still have to pay the $1200.00 advertising bill and the $600.00 vet bill. So you gotta ask yourself: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, "breeder?"

they need to be at least 2 years old..you need to get them fixed..

wait until the 3rd heat on the female

To answere your question, Between 2 years old, and 8 years old is the recommended age to breed a HEALTHY female.Now on to the more serious issue..Dogs are not widgets or crafts that give you something to do. Breeding your dog will not only be irresposible, but also could be a LEGAL problem for you.You should have a REASON to breed, and any reputable breeder has all of the puppies SOLD before the first one is ever born.I recommend you do some research, obviously if you did not know the appropriate age to breed a female, you will not know other serious issues concerning breeding, and caring for puppies.

Those Pits can mate when they're at least 2 years of age, have been shown, are on their way to obtaining their championship, have excellent bloodlines, have had all genetic tests completed (OFA, CERF, PennHip, etc.), and have excellent qualities to contribute to the breed.They can mate when you have at least $1,000 saved for any emergencies, have done months upon months of research, have talked to other Pit breeders, have found a mentor, and have researched as much as you possibly can on breeding.They can mate when you've gone onto http://www.petfinder.com and taken a look at all the Pits on there that are sitting in shelters right now looking for a good home due to irresponsible backyard breeders like yourself.Please spay and neuter those dogs. Just because you think they're good enough to be bred, doesn't mean they are. Not every dog should be bred. Do you have any idea how many Pits are in shelters because of irresponsible breeding? Do you know how many Pits are put down each year? If you really loved your dog, get it fixed.

Once both have reached CH. statusOnce both have cleared OFA and CERF testsOnce 5 generations of champions and clear health can be establishedOnce temperament testing shows that both dogs are worthy of being bredIf you just want to breed because both of you have pits, then both of you need to fix your dogs. Judging by your screen name, you live in the LA area. It's estimated that over 200 pits are killed EACH DAY in LA county shelters. Why on earth would you want to contribute to this? Only someone without ANY conscience would want to breed a dog, much less a pit, without a good reason. You DO have a conscience, don't you?http://www.pbrc.net/breeding.htmlGet your dogs fixed. There's no excuse for creating more pit bulls "just because".

There are tons of homeless pit bulls and pit bulls that are euthanized all the time. Shelters are over flowing with them. It sounds like you are very inexperienced. Why do you think you need puppies? They are alot of work and you could potentially loose the mom during the birthing process especially if she is too young to have puppies. Just because they can go into heat by 6-9 months of age doesn't mean they could birth puppies healthily.

do you have any idea how many pits are in shelters? that will be killed because everybody and their brother are breeding them?if they are NOT proven with the bloodlines to back them up, they should NOT be bred.

If you need to ask this question here, you don't know anywhere near enough to be breeding.Please go do some serious research on responsible breeding.http://learntobreed.com/http://woodhavenlabs.com/breeding.htmlhttp://dogplay.com/Breeding/index.html

I just learned this while looking into breeding my two doxies:Most dogs are not bred until they are at least 2 years of age!I didn't know this until several months ago.My cousin's pugs bred at exactly 1 year old and had 8 healthy puppies (yes, extremely large litter for pugs!). Once a female reaches 2 years old it's body is at its best for breeding because she is done growing and she has already had at least one heat cycle.I suggest you do A LOT of reading on breeding your pits. Do you know both pits pedigrees? What papers do you have on the dogs? Also, you might want to look into how popular the dog is in your area and see if you will be able to place all the puppies. Otherwise, you will have to take care of all the pups' needs and the parents' until you find them homes.Breeding dogs isn't as easy as it sounds. Nothing but experience can prepare you for the things that can happen. I have talked to my vet about breeding our two, you should do the same!

when CAN you-in at LEAST 2 years...when SHOULD you-NEVER.what kind of APBT do you have-a UKC bred pit? or an ADBA pit? the breeding for these dogs has different goals....what do your dogs do?do they show(and place) in conformation?do they do agility? weight pull? or stay chained up in your back yard........What titles have your dogs won?What registry are they members of and what breeder did you get them from(and why aren't you asking them? Most pit breeders have STRICT contracts).are they UKC/ADBA or AKC(as ammstaffs) registered?What are their OFA/PennHip scores?Have their hearing/eyes been tested too?Are they both conditioned and healthy?What is their conformation?any splayed toes-flat pasterns-bowed legs-over/under bites???What about the ears and tails? the way they are carried is genetic-and certain tail and ear carriage are faults. So is a tail placed too high on the rump, and too low....are the tails too long?what are your goals with this breeding?are you looking to produce conformation pups? pups for weight pulling?farm work?agility?schutzhund?hard to do that if the parents don't do it, and their parents didn't do it.....do you have the THOUSANDS of dollars whelping this litter and caring for them for the first 8 weeks will cost you? it is cheaper to get both dogs fixed.People like me work our a$$es off to give a better name to this classic american breed-and to keep people like you from breeding their pets. It is people like you that are making it ILLEGAL to even own this awesome dog.If you want to not have your pet stripped from your arms and put to sleep because it is a bully breed, and your city has banned them-please leave the breeding up to those with carefully selected dogs who have proved themselves.....

Of course a male can mate with a female but they shouldn't before 2 yrs of age and you shouldn't breed them unless you know what you are doing. Oh, and prepare to be broke bc whelping a litter is E X P E N S I V E.

I did look and it says atleast when the female is 2 years old. I hope you think before you decide. I have a female pit also who is getting fixed when she becomes of age. I love my baby girl too much to risk anything happening to her. Plus I would be afraid that when you sell the puppies they would get in the wrong persons hand and become fighting dogs or neglected:)