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Originally Posted by Sara1130  Have some questions for you that have or do bottle feed newborn puppies. I have been using Esbilac puppy milk on the babies when momma first could not nurse. Now she is nursing some but does not have enough to nurse all the time. I just bought a new can and they have had 1 feeding from it and now they won't take it. They gag and spit the bottle out. I tried different nipples, made a new batch and still nothing. The formula smells fine but I still have crying babies. Is there something else that I can use on them? Will switching them to something else hurt them? Could it just be they don't like the taste of it anymore? They just turned 2 weeks so they are not done nursing yet.
Any help you can offer would be great. I already have a call into the vet. |
Have you tried giving them goats milk? That is really what they should be drinking if you are supplimenting them. Use one can of goats milk (you can buy it in any grocery store near the canned evaporated milk) one can of water, and a tablespoon of karo corn syrup. This formula is the closet formula to mothers milk. Espilaca has been known to cause problems later down the line. I would not use anything except the goats milk formula. switching will not hurt them. Mom should be producing enough for them (supply and demand) but since they are still crying for more.. use the goats milk formula. In another week they should be able to lap it from a dish. you can also add baby rice cereal to it (in another week or so) and allow them to lap it from a dish. They make a mess of it and will need to be cleaned afterwards (or mom will clean them). keep a close watch on weights.. weigh before they nurse, then weigh after.. that way you will know exactly what they ate.