I have a 13 month old bitch and was planning to breed her in just over a years time.  Would you say this is an ok age to breed her?
She has a wonderfull temperament, she is a family pet and has a good pedigree.

Most people would say that 13 months is too young. You should make sure she has had all the health tests for her breed done before breeding her, ideally when she is fully mature, which in bullies is usually around 2 or at her 3rd season.

I think the guest says she was planning on breeding in a years time from now.

The poster said in 12 months time, so she'll just be over 2.  Don't know anything about the breed but hopefully someone who does will come along and advise you shortly :d

oops so she did just spotted that bit :-)
I would think that age would be fine guest

I would use the next year to really study the breed so that you are in a good position to make good choices with breeding partner and learn the finer points of breed type, resarch health issues etc.

I don't know what other health tests are advised, but certainly Hip scoring qand BAER hearing testing shoudl be on yoru list, I beleive they shoudl bbe eye tested (weell the Mini variety are for PLL, not sure about standard bullterriers). 

Joining the breed club will bring you lost od information and resources.

I like my bitches to be at least 2 years old when they have their first litter, but they are normally 3 by the time I get round to it because of showing and season times etc.
Health tests should be carried out, we at BTHUK recommend BAER, heart and kidney as the main tests.
I have to say that ive never known anyone hip score a Bully, nor have I heard of any problems in the breed...... mind its hard enough getting people to test for the problems we do have just now!
Take a look at http://bullterriershealthuk.homestead.com/home.html
Sorry I dont know how to links on here!
We also have a list of tested stud dogs (sadly one about 14 at the moment!) and we have just started to take bitches too.
We will also place litters on the site if the sire and dam are fully tested.
There is also info on why we test and how to go about getting them done.

Jo

I see to January only 13 Bull Terrriers were hipscored with a range from 0 to 13 , but of course this cannot be a representative resilt.

I personally thingk that all breed should ahve the dogs hip scored and soem awful results have come to light in breeds where they don't nornally score.  Beagles have had scores up to 60, the lowes 10, but only 26 have been scored.  It only needs one popular sire to have bad hips and the condition is then a problem.

Oh I agree, but we have 18 month old dogs dropping dead from kidney failure and most breeders still wont do a simple UPC test that costs about £20 on their breeding animals!!!
But it's never in 'my line' is it? Well is sure is in someones!
We also have huge heart problems, though one of the clubs has been putting on free testing at the shows its been mainly people with one or two dogs using it..... rather than the well known stud dogs in the breed.
The last results we have showed that 28% of the dogs tested had a murmur.
So we are going to have huge problems getting people to do expensive tests when we dont even seem to have a problem with it!
Of course it would be better to do them all in an ideal world.

Thing is they don't know if there is a problem, woudl be sad if they found it was, and checking would have helped reduce it.  That is how the problems they do have have got such a hold because of people putting their heads in the sand.

Even a cursory look at the BVA Hip scores will show that it ocurs in all breeds to a lesser or greater degree.

My own breed has a respectable record for hips, but it is the breeds policy that all breeding stock arte scored, and with over 20 scored a year the figures are pretty representative (plenty are scored that aren't bred from) as only around 120 pups registered annnually.

Interestingsly the odd high score (in the dysplastic range if comparing with OFA) are animals that are not unsound.