With the new cost structure being put in place initially by Racing Queensland being $1200 to register a brood bitch and $250 to register a pup, it will cease backyard breeding to a trickle
Once in place in QLD, wont be long until adopted nationally by Greyhounds Australasia (including NZ)
Do the numbers on a litter of say 10 pups to breed and then add in frozen semen, whelping, rearing and break in costs and it will not be viable to breed a litter
In 18 months time,there will be a shortage of dogs bred over that time to fill fields within Aus or NZ
The problem them becomes that there are less females to breed from and it will cause a flow on effect from there with less pups for the next season and so on