Thinking about Breeding F1 Savannah Cats or Servals ?

Facts: How to breed F1 Savannahs.

Males F1-F4 males are sterile by birth. They cannot reproduce. You cannot produce F1s by crossing two F1s.

F1s are only produced with a Serval male that has been raised since a kitten in a home environment.

You cannot use a “stud”. African serval males often kill their partners during mating; especially a cat they do not use.
There is no such thing as artificial insemination when it comes to servals. Servals do not take to all females; especially domestic cats. They are very unlikely to choose a small cat as a partner; they do not always mate even with another serval. Servals that were not raised together are likely to kill each other.

Pure servals do not need to bred more; there is already a 80% + surrender rate for adult servals as people buy them as kittens not knowing the wild behaviors that will develop as a mature adult.

Maybe 1 out of 10 servals will actually mate and not kill their domestic savannah partners; even if raised together.

A non neutered serval male is most definitely a wild animal; and not easy to care for and will require a outdoor enclosure. He must be kept happy; a sad serval will not reproduce.

In order to potentially have a succesful litter a serval kitten is raised with 4-5 older savannah females that are on the bigger side. If the females are not older then the serval kitten this is a danger for when it comes to mating the serval will mate to violently and kill his partners.

The gestation period of a domestic cat is 61 days and 71 days of a serval; most litters are born stillborn or premature and don’t survive the pregnancy.

Many kittens are rejected by the mother; they will need to very attentively be hand raised in a incubator; hobby breeding is unsuccessful for this reason. Their needs to be another lactating female who may accept the new kitten to have a higher success rate. Female savannah cats very frequently eat their newborn kittens.