Sally had her litter of English setter puppies, finally. I put her in the shed and checked her about every hour from the 59th day from her first breeding, which was March 29. I put her in the shed on May 28th. We have the Arlo system for surveillance cameras around our house. I put one of these cameras in her whelping box with a 7.5 watt light so I didn’t have to get up, put my clothes on and walk down to the shed to check on her.
Sally and her puppies.
A female.
White and orange male.
I would wake up every hour to hour and a half and check on her. To be able to just grab my phone and in 15 seconds have a camera showing me exactly what was going on with her was nice. After 7 nights of very little sleep Sally started having her puppies, during the day. She started about 8:00 am. I went to the shed to sit with her.
The first puppy was born dead. I tried to revive it but it was already gone. The next puppy came out and I helped take the sack off. I dried it with a towel and put it on the heat pad. It started whimpering and tried to nurse. I tried to help the puppy find a teat. She would hit them but not open her mouth. I picked her up and tried to see if she would suck on my finger. She wouldn’t open her mouth. I put her back with Sally and she locked on to a teat.
Numbers 3 and 4 were born and Sally cleaned them real well and after I dried them some, with the towel, they went to nursing. Then we waited. She didn’t have any more. I talked to Jim Smith and he suggested I give my vet a call. When I called him he told me to come to his office and get some Oxytocin shots to give her.
By the time I waited for a while, then called the vet and went after the shots a little over 2 hours had passed since the last puppy. I gave her the shot and within 40 minutes three more puppies were born then a fourth. The vet had given me three shots. I called back to the vet and he told me to give him a call one and a half hours after the last puppy was born. When I called he said wait one more hour then give her the second shot. I did.
She had a total of 8 puppies with the first one born dead then the next morning another was dead. It was the first puppy born in the second bunch of puppies. It may have been in the birth canal too long. I thought all of the puppies had eaten and were warm when I checked them of the evening.
Sally started at about 7 months old pointing wild quail and letting me walk in front of her and flush the birds. Most of my dogs start early but Sally seems to have something more than just stumbling onto birds. It’s like she knows where they are.
Female
A friend was hunting with me her first year and said, “Sally is too young to know that much about running quail. But she knows”. I’ve had a lot of dogs in my life but I think she is probably the best I’ve ever owned. These puppies were born the day before her 3rd birthday.
Sally is the grand daughter of Shadow Oak Bo on the top and the grand daughter of Tekoa Mountain Outrage on the bottom side. The male I bred her to is a son of Tekoa Mountain Sunrise and is, also a grandson, on the bottom side, to Tekoa Mountain Outrage. These puppies are line bred Tekoa Mountain Sunrise puppies.
In this litter there are 4 females and 2 males. One male is going to be white and orange and all of the others will be white with black, with some being tri colored. They have the breeding to be great bird dogs.
Male, probably will be a tri colored.
A female.
Female.