Hello everyone,
I am a new member to this group. I have been lurking on this forum for quite some time, learning everything I can before posting. I finally feel I have some questions I really do need answers to. This may be a long post, so I apologize.
I have a beautiful brown rosette queen who is right now on her 4th heat. She is a little over 1 year of age, full TICA rights, and is still a maiden queen. HCM, PK, HD, FIV and FeLV testing done and all results came back perfect. I admit I still need to DNA/coat test her. I attempted to have her bred on her 3rd heat, but it did not go well at all. My queen hated the stud! Absolutely hated him! She was a snarling, growling, hissing, clawing, nasty beast the entire time he was with her. She would not allow him anywhere near her for over a full week! I finally gave up trying and had him go home. She is usually a very sweet, loving, docile girl, so her behavior really took me by surprise. During that attempt, the two were kept completely separate unless supervised as I wanted to be able to witness any breeding to confirm the date and time for my own record keeping. I tried dozens and dozens of times while he was here to get the two to breed, but any attempt led to nothing but fighting.
This current cycle has been a long and miserable one. She started calling approximately 2 weeks ago, but finally started going into a lordosis position only last night. I am set to have a different stud brought over for a stay later today, but I am quite anxious about it. The stud is young (11 months of age) and has never before been bred, so I am not sure if he will even know what to do. Add to that, with my queen being so down right nasty to the last stud I am sure it will just happen again.
What on earth can I do to get this girl to be receptive to a stud? Bengals are INCREDIBLY rare and hard to come by in my area. I had to buy my queen from out of state and have her flown in. That is how hard they are to find. It took several months of searching just to find two studs that I have, and even then both are located over an hour away. I have now run out of stud options due to her pickiness. I do not want to frustrate or anger the stud owners with repeated failed attempts.
As she is now on Day One of truly showing a readiness to mate (by assuming a lordosis position when pet), how many approximate days of optiumum breeding does she still have this cycle? I read that once lordosis begins there are 4-7 days a queen will be receptive to a stud.
ANY helpful tips, pointers, suggestions and advice would be very welcome!
Thank you!