Some Stats on the Whelp

Okay, now that we're recovered from W-Day (whelp day), I've prepared some vital statistics that characterize the event.

Five Females - two females deceased
Two Males

Avg Weight...............................13 oz
Avg Weight of Males.................16 oz
Avg Weight of Female..............11.8 oz

Water Break to First Whelp.......11 min
Duration of Whelp....................3 hr 41 min
Avg Period Between Puppy......35 min

In the chart below, I've visualized gender, birth weight, time of whelp (where time 0 is water bag break), and mortality. The period between birth of the pups is fairly similar. I don't see any obvious temporal gaps which might indicate which groups of pups were located in the same uterine horn. It seems odd that only females suffered mortality. There was no clear relationship of mortality and birth weight. The sample size is small, so these conclusions need to be viewed in the proper context.