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Originally Posted by butterbeansmoma  The puppys turn 5 weeks old today!!! It has been a long hard road but all 6 puppies are doing great! I am still bottle feeding them twice a day. My parents who watch them while I work during the day feed them puppy food and or rice ceral with puppy formula. We do not see eye to eye on this. I think they should be bottle feed at least twice a day to make sure they are getting enough fluids. My parents say that at this age Abbey the mother normally stops nursing them. Does any one have advice on this? |
Since these pups are being hand raised and not nursing on the mom they are plenty old enough to give up the bottle as long as they are eating the puppy food mush with the puppy formula. I would make sure they have a quality dry puppy food available also. I like to grind the dry food in a blender until it is like corn meal and just leave out a bowl of the dry ground food. Most pups will catch on really quick and start licking the dry food. You also need to make sure the pups have a small bowl of water available. I like using the small double sided bowls they sell at Wal-mart. I will put the dry food in both sides of one bowl and the water in both side of a different bowl. I leave these down at all times. How much do your pups weigh now? One thing you always have to consider is the size of the pups. If these are tiny pups in the 1 lb range then the weaning process can take longer.