Full Grown Mini Australian Shepherd Size Comparison
Breeders bred them down in size to produce a smaller dog and today continue to strive to produce a mirror image of the australian shepherd in a size that fits well into today s lifestyle without sacrificing instinct ability or.
Full grown mini australian shepherd size comparison. They weigh somewhere between 20 and 40 pounds. His results were 100 australian shepherd. True herders in spite of their compact size minis are bright self motivated workers and endearingly loyal and lively. My opinion is that the health and happiness of the dog is all that matters not the label.
If you get a genuine purebred mini aussie it will dna test as 100 australian shepherd. The only difference between the miniature and classic varieties of australian shepherd is size. Males are larger than females. Miniature american shepherds are a hardy and rustic breed a little longer than tall.
Males are slightly taller in shoulder height at 14 18 inches with females at 13 17 inches. Of course such a dog would in reality no longer be a miniature australian shepherd let alone an aussie. Unfortunately when such. Miniature australian shepherd at maturity miniature australian shepherds range between 15 to 18 inches tall at the shoulder weighing between 25 to 40 pounds.
The miniature version is 14 to 18 inches tall and weighs a little less too between 20 and 40 pounds. I didn t list on the testing form anything about his size even though he. I have several of them and they range in height at the girth from 10 to 18 inches and i ve had a second generation pup i own his parents and one set of his grandparents dna tested. A practice i ve heard of that i find disconcerting is cross breeding australian shepherds and minis with completely different smaller breeds to get the size down and then re crossing them back with aussies to get an aussie look back.
Males are generally larger than females. The miniature american shepherd resembles a small australian shepherd. So this breed is not super tiny about 20 35 pounds smaller than a regular australian shepherd. The traditional aussie measures 18 to 23 inches tall and weighs between 40 and 65 pounds.
It would just be a mutt. Australian shepherds are small to medium sized dogs in this video we will be showing you how stella is compared to us in size weight thanks to clare case. A breeding program to develop the miniature australian shepherd north american miniature australian shepherd was begun in 1968 using small australian shepherds.