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Originally Posted by fannie  Mardelin, I thought you said before to not use cottage cheese, etc. prior to whelp?
I also thought that calcium received through food was absorbed and used by their body different than artificial means of calcium (supplements).
Prior to whelp, I always give my girls 1/3 C. of fat free cottage cheese each day during their last week of gestation. After they deliver, I bump it up to 1/2 C. a day. I prefer to use fat free cottage cheese so it doesn't make the puppies too fat before delivery.
Dee, I hope that your girl is able to whelp without any additional problems. |
This is what I posted. My girls are fed cottage cheese with their morning meal prior to breeding. But, never a calcium supplement plus an hour a day in the sunshine natural vitamin D.
Okay to hold it at bay, so it never comes at all… forget everything about giving tums, cottage cheese, cheese, icecream.. etc. It’s useless. The body needs the calcium to be delivered with the correct ratio of Vit D and Phosphorus or it doesn’t absorb it, it’s useless. Pet Cal has this correct ratio. Another thing that has it is, believe it or not.. a scrambled whole egg! Of course everyone knows not to start calcium until the litter is whelped.. no giving it to PG bitches… I do give some calsorb during whelping If things slow down on a larger litter, but never before whelping. Make it a general practice to scramble your bitch an egg every day, and depending on weight, give ½ to a whole pet tab per day. I gave it to a 8 lb bitch ½ in the morning ½ at night…this is the “daily dose” for about a 20 lb dog who was NOT nursing a litter…so just fine for ½ the size, but nursing a litter. I would grind up the pet tab in the food processor and put the powder in the egg when I scrambled it.
Also, check your dog food for Soybeans, soy protein, or anything related to soy in any way. For SOME reason that is not completely understood by me (many menopause supplements contain soy, or are soy based, so this seems to be a contradiction).. soy protein can interfere with the absorption of calcium in dogs. If your food has soy of any sort, change to a food that does not for the duration of the weaning of the litter.