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question about nursing Tinky's 4 pups born on 07/06/08 all doing great and gaining weight mommy seems skinnier than usual but doing well is there any thing i can add to her diet to keep her healthy and keep her energy up? the vet just said to feed her puppy food and water, which she is eating fine, just thought extras would help her out.:aimeeyork new here and love all the fun yorkie names and pics:p:p |
Hi and welcome to YT. If I had a momma with babies I'd be giving her lots of med. rare steak. :) |
Congratulations on you new litter and welcome to Yorkie Talk. It is important that your female eat plenty of good quality food. I always feed mine Chicken Soup dry puppy food mixed with canned Pedigree Lamb and Rice puppy food. It is important that she eat about 4 good meals a day and she should always have dry puppy food available. Be sure her last feeding is right before you go to bed. Her pups are at the age where they are really draining her of calcium so be sure that she is getting half a calcium pill twice a day to prevent eclampsia. My females usually gain weigh while nursing because they eat so well. Many of the breeders on here feed their bitches a 'whelping pudding'. You can do a search and find many threads that have recipes for it. Please keep us posted on how she is doing and we would love to see pictures. |
thanks I am going to get her started on this today, thanks for your help!:aimeeyork |
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Lola was looking thin also after her litter and she was eating canned Puppy food but it would take her the whole day for her to eat 1 cup of food. It took her some time and I even used to feed her out of my hand for about a week. Now she's been eating about a cup or more of puppy canned food plus about 3/4 cup-1 cup of Eukanuba petite food... She seems much thicker .Plus I give her 1/2 baby tums twice a day. Recommended by the vet. For the first 10 days I think ,I used to give her Post Whelp Pudding twice a day (about 3oz each bowl) How many did she have in her litter? Genie Cookie,Lola,Angel & Lucky |
hi tinky had 4 two boys ,two girls I have started her on the puppy canned food plus the puppy food, she is also on calcium pills.She seems more satisfied and not as thin today. thanks everyone!:thumbup: |
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