At what age do Border Collies stop growing, i have a working sheepdog who is 7 months old im wondering when she is going to stop growing?
I read on Petplanet that there most rapid growth period is 4-8 months and feeding should change, how should it change?
At the moment she is 7 months and about 17", and only weighs 6kg. . .

thanks for any help

Ours grew until nearly a year he's now a big one!!!

6kg? awww bless. our boy finished at growing up about 10 months then filled out til about 16months he weighs 21kg

6kg????

That seems very light. I have an 18" girl who is what I would class as very small build and she's 15kg.

She will still have a lot of filling out to do and perhaps some growing but 6kg for a 7 month old bitch seems rather light IMO.

How does she look weight-wise? Can you see/feel her ribs?

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6kg seems very small for a BC, thats more like the size of a full grown westie. My very small collie is about 19inches at the sholder and weighs around 15kgs.

> and only weighs 6kg

are you sure? My cat weighs 5.5, and he is a large cat but not huge. I would double check that weight.

I'd expect that sort of weight at 3 months.  Surely the OP means 16kg????

My breed is stockier than a WS but I would say a similar size, and their height seems to be not much less than most I see these days (even though standard says different).  anyway I would expect my medium size breed to gain all but half an inch of adult height by 9 months, and would not think A Border Collie would be much different, though they will both fill out and mature over about 3 years or even longer.

As regards food needs changing this usually means it stops increasing and often people reduce the protein and fat content to avoid overweight.

With my own breed I often find this is the age at which many pups can tend to get fat as the owners haven't notice their pups food needs levelling out/decreasing.  My breed though are generally good doers and often very food motivated, and I don't think too many collies would be getting fat until much later.

6kg does sound terribly underweight to me!

Like Tanya, my boy weighs 21kg

My two small collies weigh 18 and 19kg. Are you weighing her yourself, in which case your scales may not be correct? I've seen some really tiny, fine boned collies though that compete in medium agility, perhaps yours is this type, but even then 6kg is very very light? Can we see a pic of her :-) ?

I was wondering if 6kg's is correct because I also have a pretty big cat who weighs in at 7kgs - he's half Persian so that might explain his size.