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Originally Posted by Mardelin  What I use for those lil newborns is a 3 cc syringe, fill with your milk, attach a premie nipple to the end. You can better control the intake of milk, monitor how much the pup is taking and there is less gas this way. Don't forget to burp the pup. He'll tell you when he's had enough. Water isn't necessary at this point, especially if your feeding goats milk (which is 95% closests to mother's milk) diluted 50/50 with distilled water. At about 3 1/2 weeks the pup will start lapping on it's own. Since he's an orphan pup I would go online to Revivalanimal.com and order some colistrum.
As far when he'll start eliminating by hisself, about 3 or 4 weeks. |
I've been using the milk I got from the vet (Nurturall-C from vpl), he seems to be doing fine on it and gaining weight. I will go to revival now to check out the colistrum, thanks!
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