How much should I charge for stud service?

I have a 3 year old male black tri colored pit bull. He carries the Gotty bloodlines. His parents were both purple ribbon champions. He is UKC and ADBA registered. I was just wondering how much I should charge for his stud service.|||My pug is a stud, when they breed, $250. When the pups are born, another $250, sometimes, I just have pick of the litter...which to me is a better deal, but I don't have the room for another dog...





Sorry if this doesn't help much, my pug has a pedigree, and was a champion show dog.|||What health testing has he had done? Health testing all done and clear, and some sort of title.. Check to see what a puppy goes for in your area and that's normally what the stud fee is going to be.. Say you would get $2000 for 1 pet puppy, then $2000 would be your stud fee...|||"Purple Ribbon" only means that all of a dogs ancestors have been UKC registered for however many generations. It isn't any kind of accomplishment.





What has your dog accomplished? Has he won a conformation show? Has he taken a trophy at a weight pull? Has he helped a little old lady across the street? Has he accomplished ANYTHING other than eating and crapping? How about his parents, grandparents, and great grand parents? Have they won anything? Has your dog or any of its ancestors ever produced winning dogs when bred to other dogs? These are the questions that real dogmen and women are going to want answered before you can expect a high dollar price for pups or stud fees.





What it all boils down to is, how much are people going to be willing to pay? If you can find someone who will pay $200 or $300 as a stud fee, then you should be very happy. If your dog is a champion, his parents are champs, and all of his grannys are champs, then you can reasonably expect more money. That doesn't mean you'll get it. The people who are willing to pay high prices are those who are going to be traveling the country, and maybe even foreign countries, showing and weight pulling their dogs. Generally, these people already have their own stock, or are going to buy from someone else who has already put in their work to make a name for their bloodline. If you do get a high price, even if you have done all of that work and your dog is really that good, it will be the exception, not the rule.





Don't expect that to last. The people who buy your pups and raise those pups are going to want to breed them too, sell their pups, and charge their stud fees. You will be creating your own competition.





Most people, and I was no exception, get into whatever breed of pedigreed dogs with dollar signs in their eyes. Most, like I did, quickly realize that dog breeding is nothing more than an expensive hobby. The only people who are ever going to be lucky enough to break even on it, much less make a profit, are those who go around to conformation shows, weight pulls, etc, and actually compete and WIN with their dogs.





Gotti? Are you speaking of RedBoy crossed bloodlines?





Anyway, I quit selling puppies. If I have any litters off of the two dogs I have right now, they will go to my friends whom I know will properly care for them. There are a lot of idiots out there. And if they do something stupid with them, like fight them, and get into trouble, the law will next have you in their crosshairs. We all know that breeders cannot be responsible for what someone else does with their dogs. But if someone buys a German Shepherd, is irresponsible with it, and gets into some trouble with the law, it will be buried in the back of the paper (If it even gets reported at all), the owner will be blamed (Appropriately), the kid it killed will be blamed for teasing the dog, and all is as it should be.





When pits are involved, it is the breed's fault, the owners are drug dealers, and the guy they bought it from is somehow involved, even if he isn't.





Do your thing, but be careful, and be prepared to never get a dime, just in case. Don't have any litters or trade a stud fee for pups unless you have the space, time, and money to raise those pups yourself, if they don't sell.





You won't be doing anybody who loves this breed, or the breed itself, any favors if you find yourself forced to sell cheap or give away pups to irresponsible people because you can't afford to keep them.





Good luck,


El Chistoso|||Has your dog checked clear of all genetic disease known to the breed? Has he proven he is of breeding quality by showing him, and earning points toward his UKC champion?





If not, nothing, the only people who would want to use your dog as stud will be careless, irresponsible byb's.





Just because the parents were champions, doesn't automatically make the offspring good breeding stock.|||people I know only want AKC registered pups only. So ukc and adba means nothing. The only people that would buy those type of pups would be people to fight them or do them harm. do you really want pups from you dog to be placed in bad peoples hands. And you will have no say as you are only studding the dog, not handling the pups. I persoanly interview my buyers very carefully, and my pups only go to good homes where I know they will be cared for. I do check up on them and people know they mess up with my pups I will repose's them.