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Whelping Food? Also Runt Question I have started to introduce food to my puppies. I am currently useing boiled ground chicken (purried). The juice from the chicken. Purried Dog food (lamb and brown rice, Blue). With a little Goats Milk (since I have been supplimenting one of the puppies) Is this an ok whelping food? Is there anything else I should add? One more question, one of the puppies. The one I have been feeding with a bottle when she is done feeding she always seems to have some of the liquid in her nasal passage (you can hear her). The vet checked and said she did not have a cleft palat. What else could it be? She also seems to have smaller then normal back feet, I believe that is why she is unable to feed the same. Is this normal? Will her back feet grow? |
When I have a girl whelping I feed her anything she will eat.. most of the time she doesn't want much but seems I can get her to eat ice cream or yogurt better than anything. After she has done I try to feed her 6 meals a day. Sounds like she is eating to fast or your hole in the nipple is to big if it is coming out her nose. She is breathing in the milk instead of sucking it. It can cause pneumonia. Try to slow her down and reduce the size of the hole. I really don't know about the small back feet. What has your vet said? |
Did you mean weaning food? How old are the puppies? If you are introducing them to solid food, you can mix any ground meat into their goat's milk. You can add eggs too. You may also want to add a puppy multivitamin. Just don't feed liver until they are much older because the toxins can be dangerous. For the mother, I'd try and give her some scrambled egg. It's a great source of calcium for eclampsia, but if the pups are more than 3 weeks old, she may be in the clear. Hope that helps! |
yes weaning food. So no liver? Why not? |
Because the liver's function is to remove toxins from the body. In a 'rather safe than sorry' mentality, it isn't advised to give it to puppies, sickly or very old dogs. And if you think about it, with all the hormones and pesticides and chemicals in the livestock's food, their liver is bound to have residues. |
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