a size matter

Pictures please!

It's really hard to say without looking at the dog. Do you know what the parent dogs looked like, size, weight?

A GSD breeder I know breeds small GSDs that are only about 60lbs but I have seem some over 100lbs so it really just depends on a lot of things.

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Males usually grow to be 24-26 inches tall, and are anywhere from 65 to 95 pounds.  I haven't heard of many GSD's weighing 100 pounds or over.  You need to look at his parents to get an idea of what he will weigh.

Many larger breeds don't fully mature until 2 or 3 yrs old, so speculating at 6 mos old will be very difficult.   I agree with the others that it depends on the dogs in the pedigree too.

    kinda the same sentiment i have recieved from friends. i'll take some pics and post them on a new thread so thant's for that suggestion that i am now embarrassed that i didn't already do. the problem with the pedigree thing is that i don't know his breeders. i adopted him from a guy who said he couldn't afford him, couldn't afford to keep up with him i'm sure, and he didn't give me that info. he is purebreed, that is for sure as stated by two vets and an AKC registered breeder of GSD's, who by the way i did just run into in the last hour and said that he thinks he will be 100lbs or so. that may answer it since he really must know his stuff and actually put his eyes on him.
    this may all be speculation anyways, i'm sure there is no sure fire prediction. i just wanted another opinion, i am leaning to accept that he will be on the large size, but once again i do need to post those pics.
    oh, and in reference to the 100lb+ mentioned before, i had a neighbor that had two beautiful GSD's one weighing in at 105lbs and the other at a whopping 118lbs. no joke, so as you can imagine influenced my emperical expectations of a GSD. bad thing about the bigger one is that he only lived 8 years, that's why i ask.
 
thanks for the input 

In the case of german shepherds, bigger is NOT better.  My largest boy is 93 lbs.  When Thor was a pup he was fed Purina large breed puppy as recommended by the vet.  He honestly grew far too quickly.  We just got DARNED lucky that he didn't have any skeletal problems and OFA'd excellent on his hips.  One of my fosters left here at 5 months growing very nicely, with no huge leaps and came back at 7 months after two months on Pedigree of all things, absolutely enormous!  Luckily I got him back to a proper weight very quickly, but HE has pano....basically growing pains....and he's TALLER than Thor.  My dogs have been on Innova for more than two years and any pup that comes into my home is fed Innova.  I see absolutely wonderful growth on Innova...slow, steady and even.  He's not a year old yet, but HIS hips we'll watch much more carefully than the others because of the rapid growth.
 
90 lbs is actually the top of the breed standard.  Some breeders are going for giant shepherds these days and BIG is as bad as teacup...there is only so far you can go messing around with Mother Nature.

good info,
 
    understand though that i'm not in this for some big bad dog compensation or anything. i was just wondering the L, W, and H for future spacial planning as far as where we live. i feed him what is recommended by the vet, totally trust her she is dynamite. he is on science diet puppy, i'm going to graduate him off of it though, i don't like science diet. i want to get him on pro plan like my adult dog, and then eventually a raw suppliment for one meal. i know there are strong feelings in regards to the pro's and con's of raw so i won't go into that.
 
thanks again!
   

You're going to find more objections to the ProPlan here than you will to raw.  [8|]

OMG! lol. i knew i'd get poked for that statement. i used to do raw and think it makes total sense, but i live in an apartment and it isn't practical to have chicken carcass encrusted hard-wood floors. that's just me.

Yeah, I agree with Colliewog on the Proplan.....for what you are paying for one heck of a lot of corn, you could get a really GOOD super premium.
 
I live in a house, but have lots of hardwood...and I feed raw periodically.  I just feed raw in the crates as I feed every other meal so it's not an issue for us.
 

good idea with the crate thing, but you have to appreciate my reluctance. my guys are in their dens for eight hous solid while i'm at work, i really don't want them eating in them. it's more of a psychological thing for me rather than them.
 
oh and i actually haven't bought proplan yet, a friend gave me a 40lb bag because his dog passed. i used to use eagle pack. are we against that to?

Eagle Pak is a good food.  ProPlan is full of corn, even tho it's likely the BEST that Purina makes.  Go to [linkhttp://www.mordanna.com/dogfood]www.mordanna.com/dogfood[/link] for an education on foods, or naturapet.com for a comparison of different foods.

Even when I was working and my guys were crated during the day, they still ate in the crates.  With my crew, even with raw we're talking about 5 or 10 minutes max, so not a huge amount of time to eat.  But, I also have six gsds and my alpha male WILL push someone else out of the way for food and they will go.  I want to be sure that everyone is getting the proper amount of food and that old Thor doesn't start to look like a pig!

All I can say is that your boy is going to be one big dog! 55 pounds at 6 months is pretty big, id be guessing 90+ plus by adulthood. Congrats on your new pup!