YorkieTalk.com Forums - Yorkshire Terrier Community - View Single Post

Yorkiemom1 · 04-22-2013, 02:24 PM

For the current babies, they must be treated with antibiotics ASAP!!

You must wait until those babies are at least 12 weeks old before you separate them from their momma...she will nurture and care for them much better than you can. You are going to have to know how to tube feed newborns....if they are not gaining weight, you must feed them. If you need a formula, let me know...mine delivers 16 cal/cc and you tube feed them every 2 hours around the clock, 1cc/oz of body weight. Make sure the vet does an xray on the mom to see if the puppies will fit thru the birth canal...you would rather schedule a c-section that do it emergently when mom and babies are in distress. The babies MUST be kept warm ....90-92 degrees...not directly on a heating pad...place the pad UNDER the bed so there is no way they can ooch under the cover and get directly on the heating pad.... WHEN THOSE PUPPIES ARE 3 WEEKS OLD, YOU MUST VACCINATE THEM WITH NEOPAR...THIS WILL KEEP THEM FROM CONTACTING THIS DREDFUL PARVO, WHICH IS RAMPANT IN RESCUES AND KENNELS. You will start them on their vaccinations when they are 8 weeks old....I use Vangard-5. PLEASE DO NOT SUBJECT THOSE ENFANTS TO SPAYING/NEUTERING AT SUCH A TERRIBLY EARLY AGE....I would like to suggest perhaps you charge the cost of the spay/neuter and then when the people have the surgery done at 8 months old, you can refund the money. Questions?

04-22-2013, 02:24 PM	#5
Yorkiemom1 Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas Posts: 9,462	For the current babies, they must be treated with antibiotics ASAP!! You must wait until those babies are at least 12 weeks old before you separate them from their momma...she will nurture and care for them much better than you can. You are going to have to know how to tube feed newborns....if they are not gaining weight, you must feed them. If you need a formula, let me know...mine delivers 16 cal/cc and you tube feed them every 2 hours around the clock, 1cc/oz of body weight. Make sure the vet does an xray on the mom to see if the puppies will fit thru the birth canal...you would rather schedule a c-section that do it emergently when mom and babies are in distress. The babies MUST be kept warm ....90-92 degrees...not directly on a heating pad...place the pad UNDER the bed so there is no way they can ooch under the cover and get directly on the heating pad.... WHEN THOSE PUPPIES ARE 3 WEEKS OLD, YOU MUST VACCINATE THEM WITH NEOPAR...THIS WILL KEEP THEM FROM CONTACTING THIS DREDFUL PARVO, WHICH IS RAMPANT IN RESCUES AND KENNELS. You will start them on their vaccinations when they are 8 weeks old....I use Vangard-5. PLEASE DO NOT SUBJECT THOSE ENFANTS TO SPAYING/NEUTERING AT SUCH A TERRIBLY EARLY AGE....I would like to suggest perhaps you charge the cost of the spay/neuter and then when the people have the surgery done at 8 months old, you can refund the money. Questions? Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 04-22-2013 at 02:26 PM.