Staff weight sizes?

Why is when you google staffordshire bull terrier sizes it comes back males 13-17kg and females 11-15.4kg.But i keep reading on here off males over 25-30 and even females over 20kg?

i think this probably refers to the show dog standard. tessa is 28kg and an almost different breed to some of the micro staffies i have seen.

Yeh just summit i could get my head round thats all as i know people who have male and female staffs.Hes got a male of 3 year old at 28kg and female of 1.5 month at i think 20kg.

Tbh they are all different shapes and sizes. My girl is 13" to the shoulder and 17kg and is by no means over weight.

Yep means breed standard. Moo being a cross is 23kg Xx

i like them big and muscular they look more like the old style fighting dog

My Lula was 12kg last time she was weighed most likely around 13kg now at 7 months

Yes these sizes would be the breed standard sizes, we know that life is anything but standard   

Yeah thats true just i see lots of staffs all shapes ands sizes.And i think to my self thats defo not 16-17kg but more like 25-26kg some big dogs.Like my vet said she to me she be fine at 15 kg but i thought thats bollox as shes like 13kg at 8 months and like 16-17 inch tall.

The vet told us Alfie would probably get to around 21kg but he is 19kg now at 9 months so I think he's going to be a lot more than 21kg! I've never measured his height though x

What type of stuff do you feed your alfie and how often.And how much exercise to give him a day?

Chaos is 17" at shoulders and around 20kg at 6 and a half months

Alfie gets burns dry good mixed with wainwrights wet food. He was originally just on the burns dry food but he got bored of it so we started mixing it with some wet food to keep him interested he gets an hour a day on average xx

Marquez is 18 months, just under 16" at the shoulder and 23.5kg
We've only discovered he's hypothyroid which explained why he was increasing in weight (4kg) over a 3 month period but now that we are treating his symptoms and he's able to exercise more now as well as making sure he raw meat is really lean. His weight has stabilised and hasn't increased over the last month but he's losing the fat and looking leaner so we'll take that

I would ideally like him to get down to 20kg but doubt that will happen as he does have some decent muscle on him.

I was always curios about weight my boy was 27kg at his peak at 17 months old and 19 inches but then i started conditioning him and its down to 24 now and still coming of i used to prefer the large "bully" looking sbt's but i much prefer the lean athletic tall looking ones that look like american pitbull terriers going to struggle getting mine to look like that though as he genetically takes more after the bulldog

My boy is around 25-26kg and 17inches to the shoulder he's very stocky but no fat on him at all. I think nowadays they come in all sorts of sizes and shapes

Debo is about 16" and 18kg. He's more atletic.

millie is 9 months and is 14kg but she has no fat you can see her last rib and she is getting very muscley

Took Douglas to the kennels today, where he's staying for a few days. Said to the kennel maid (who has 3 staffies herself) that he's a staffx bcos he's too big (22.4kg) for a regular staffie. Maybe he's partly EBT (several people have said). She said only one of her three staffies is small and she puts this one in for breed competitions. The other two are bigger and, like Douglas, are also rescue dogs. According to her, the bigger ones are the product of the back street breeders who, rather than trying to achieve a breed standard, consider that bigger is better. So puppies from this source could be cross-bred with anything. Just reporting what she said. Sounds plausible. Obviously, genetic diversity is not a bad thing.

Gordon is now 23kg, havn't measured him in height, we havn't got any papers so somewhere along the lines there maybe some cross breeding but tbh we got him as a family pet, he's a happy chappy so whatever size he grows to, we're happy so long as he's healthy    

Vin is 27.6 kg and by no means fat just muscle weighs more than fat I guess   

Inez Maria wrote:Vin is 27.6 kg and by no means fat just muscle weighs more than fat I guess   

I wouldn't say that it does but muscle the same weight of fat will look a lot smaller:)  Now that Marquez has been able to exercise more now, he's definitely getting trimmer and that fat coming off.  I swear that he's losing weight but every time time he gets weighed at the clinic his weight refuses to go down.  Hubby keeps on reminding me that its only because he is getting more muscular while his fat is coming off.  Should probably take him into the gym and get them to get the callipers out to get a rough idea of body fat percentage or a DEXA scan to see just how much fat and muscle he has   

A good illustration to show the difference between fat and muscle


So you can have two dogs at exactly the same height and same weight but look drastically different depending on their fat to muscle ratio.  I think just like humans, we need to not worry so much about the scales :p

At her last check up at Christmas, the vet weighed Meg. She came in a 16kg. The vet said she was surprised she was that heavy as she didn't look that big, but when she got her on the examination table, she commented that 'She was all muscle, so that would explain her weight'

Hi my female staff cross apparently mastiff was 12.6kg on 9th june at vets she was told of vet that she prob get around 15-16kg tops when fully grown but i weighted her yesterday shes now 14.2kg she like 8 months.How big you reckon she could get as i hear of lots of people staffs fill out more later on and shes still growing?

My nel is a staffy x mastiff and at 13 months she weighted 28.5 kg and not an ounce of fat on her All.staffys and staffy x are different

CRUCHLOW 79 i aint 100% sure what she is crossed with we where just told that she was x mastiff as we rescued her from a * life.But been told of different people different breeds from labs,jack russell,lurcher,even pit bull which is totally * lol.My brother said he looks at her face sometimes and its defo staff but he sees bits of mastiff in her and her face as bit more wrinkles in it to.But how big could she go you reckon as shes big appetite and put a fair bit on last month.

I have just had the girls weighed at the Vets today. Lily is 27kg and Lola 16kg   

How old are they both?

BEAUS 19"TO THE SHOULDER 28 KG SHES JUST GONE 9 MONTHS A BIG BIG GIRL BUT BEAUTIFUL CARNT WAIT TILL THE WINTER IF WE HAVE SOME SNOW WILL GET WE A SLEDGE HEHEHEH SEND SOME PICS PEPS LETS TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR LITTLE BEAUTYS

THIS MY BIG GIRL

She looks like shes a cross with summit?

Yeah mate cross french mastiff or a giraffe I think brought her as a staff but wouldn't change her for the world mate

Nah mate shes a beatiful girl big bugger lol.

I no yrah takes some holding back hehehe

My bitch is kc 22 months and 22kg and 16inch tall solid

Plang wrote:My bitch is kc 22 months and 22kg and 16inch tall solid

Are you in the UK?

For the UK your girl would be considered both too tall and too heavy.

Well she gets lots of exercise and doesnt eat much just solid

Im in the uk and she has champion bloodlines so im happy with her she is the best

Plang wrote:Im in the uk and she has champion bloodlines so im happy with her she is the best

I'm sure she is & she looks absolutely gorgeous! And if you're not showing her, there's no problem, although having champions in her background doesn't mean anything when it comes down to size - it's just one of those things.

Were her parents big?

Sire is around 24kg and dam is 18kg but she was that largest of the litter.
She is 2 in march and has a brilliant temperament so happy with how shes turned out.

Im never going to show her shes just the family pet

My 11.5 month old Staffy is 16.5 at shoulders and 13.6 kg. Can't wait till she fills in with more muscle.

At what age do they finish "filling in"?

1ststaff wrote:At what age do they finish "filling in"?

It differs! An awful lot depends your pup's genetics - what were her parents like? Also, food and exercise, but don't exercise too much too young - just build up gradually from now untill about 18 months. But just remember that she is still a PUP! Staffords don't generally finish growing upwards till about 12 months & then hormones will take over. She won't be finished 'growing' (mentally and physically) until she's over two years old, maybe a bit more.

Don't try and rush it - you'll end up disappointed & still have to wait for nature!

The weight ranges you see when you Google Staffordshire Bull Terrier sizes are the breed standard according to kennel clubs. However, many Staffies can exceed these standards due to genetics, diet, or being mixed with other breeds.