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View Poll Results: How much should a 6-pound Yorkie eat every day? | |||
1/8 cup twice a day | 9 | 5.06% | |
1/4 cup twice a day | 57 | 32.02% | |
1/3 cup twice a day | 28 | 15.73% | |
1/2 cup twice a day | 40 | 22.47% | |
Other (Please comment.) | 44 | 24.72% | |
Voters: 178. You may not vote on this poll |
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12-23-2006, 10:27 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Seattle
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| How much Do You Feed Your Yorkie? I am trying to figure out how much a 6-pound Yorkie should eat every day. |
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12-23-2006, 10:37 AM | #2 |
and Bernie's mom too!" Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Pennsylvania
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| Check the bag and start with the smallest amount rec. for your dog's age/size. Ginger's 13 lbs and on the current food gets just under 1 cup per day. She's not fat but she's very sturdily built.
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12-23-2006, 10:40 AM | #3 |
Cosmo, Minnie, and Lillian Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New York
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| I free feed..which means I leave the bowl full of food all day and night and she eats whenever she gets hungry. |
12-23-2006, 06:05 PM | #4 |
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| Jaden is 4 pounds and gets fed 1/2 cup dry food for the whole day with a tiny bit of boiled chicken mixed in with his dry food to get him to eat it. I mix the chicken in twice a day but the dry food stays out all day. Whatever dry food he doesn't eat I let it sit out until his next feeding. I would feed him between 1/4-1/3 cup a day. Normally you can tell by looking at them and watching them whether they need to eat more or not. If his energy level seems down, and he has eaten every bit of food you have out for him definitly give him so more food. But, if he seems energetic and normal and hasn't eaten all of the dry food you put out, don't worry about it, he'll eat in the morning or when he's hungry. Just be sure to leave it down for him so he has access to it when he wants it. |
12-23-2006, 06:08 PM | #5 |
Little Bit & Buttons Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: US
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| I free feed as well. |
12-23-2006, 06:29 PM | #6 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2006 Location: california
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| We free feed dry food and give them both each 1 can of wet food at lunch time...For break. will give them apple or peaches with cottage chesse and veggie. w/boiled chicken at nite...
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12-23-2006, 06:53 PM | #7 | |
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12-23-2006, 07:25 PM | #8 |
Donating Senior YorkieTalker Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Sevierville, Tennessee
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| I free feed all of my yorkies, but at times take up the food at night. It helps with waking up to all that poop. Merry Christmas everyone!
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12-23-2006, 10:08 PM | #9 |
I Love My Lil' Punkin's Donating Member | I am a free-feeder here Stedman is only 4 lbs - and he needs to eat whenever he is hungry and wants food because he is so little (very petite). I fill his bowl FULL and it takes him DAYS to finish it. I have ALWAYS done this (since day one) - he just eats a little here and there
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12-23-2006, 10:10 PM | #10 |
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12-24-2006, 06:18 AM | #11 | |
My furkids Donating Member | Quote:
I feed kibbles with a small amount of wet in the morning and evening...I leave kibbles out all day long...sometimes they just want a little snack!
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12-24-2006, 06:43 AM | #12 |
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12-24-2006, 08:17 AM | #13 | |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: FL
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They are 4 months and 2 months old. They act like they are starving when they get a treat after doing their business outside. So, I worry they are holding out wanting to subsist on treats. I am giving the tiniest pieces of treat (chicken sticks) and need that incentive for housebreaking. I have also been trying different kibble to find one they might like better. I would so much like to put a 1/4 - 1/2 cup in a bowl and see them just eat it all. I guess I am asking for too easy.
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12-24-2006, 11:24 AM | #14 | |
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me too
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12-24-2006, 11:43 AM | #15 | |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Seattle
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| Chicken broth in kibble might help. Quote:
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