Old doe?

[ColtonRyan]

How old is too old to breed a doe? And what issues can you face by breeding an older doe?

 

[Sagebrush]

I have a 5 year old doe that is just getting ready to wean her litter of 6 in a couple more weeks. As far as I know this was her first litter. I only worried about her having a trouble with kits being a bit to large. I used my smallest buck on her, who happens to be smaller than her.

 

[Celice]

I have a 7 year old doe that is still going strong having 7+ kits a litter she weaned a litter of 7 in October. I'll try breeding her again soon.

 

[fhjmom]

We had a six year old doe that had a litter of four in September and raised all of them well. She's a Netherland Dwarf but a false dwarf, four is our largest litter to date as most of our Dwarfs have two or three after the peanuts.

 

[HendricksHearth]

My 3 year old doe just kindled (first timer) a healthy litter and my almost 5 year old proven doe just kindled also after a 2 year break from breeding. The buck was 5 years old also.