I have a lot to say about Manchester Champ Show, and I will write a post, but one thing has come to mind that I need to write about. At the show I was sat chatting to a lady who had a lovely Reno son, and I told her what had happened with Siska, so she told me her story .... She blood tested a female and the test showed she would be ready for mating within 2 days. She took her over to German for the mating, but the bitch was totally unreceptive and they didn't get a mating, they came home and tested the bitch .. her season had finished! Anyway, the following season was normal, they cut their losses and didn't go back to German, they mated her to Reno and had the litter.
The chat has made me think of Siska and her long and very odd season, maybe she did something similar? There is no doubt she was less receptive to Reno than she was to Vesco and Lucca, and there is no doubt that within 2 days of the mating the boys here had switched off. So she wasn't ready on Thursday, and from the reading shouldn't have been on Friday ... or early Saturday, but hell we'll never know now will we, it's just the chat has given me hope that next time things may go to plan!
