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When can you start to ween puppies? My pups are 3 1/2 weeks old now. If you combine 4 pups total weight they are over half the weight of their mother. I started allowing them to lap up esbilac from a saucer on Tuesday. They are so cute attempting this. Their mother is getting wornout by trying to keep up with their demands, despite my intervention with supplementing the pups that aren't getting to the teats before she is done with feeding them. She also has mastitis that is clearing up and her appetite is good I am still feeding her whelping pudding, along with her extra protein etc. besides Roayl canin baby dog-puppy food at this time. I can start mushing up some baby dog food with the esbilac next week. I just don't want to rush things If I shouldn't . they are 23 days old today. |
I introduce mine to ground up dry food at around 4 weeks, as soon as the puppies are able to start walking. I put Chicken Soup dry puppy food in a blender and grind it until it is very fine. I put this ground dry food in a bowl in the x-pen with the pups along with a bowl of water. The puppies will go over and start licking the dry food. As the puppies get older they will start eating more and more of the dry food and mom will slowly dry up. Usually by 8 weeks the pups are nursing very little. All my moms have always had plenty of milk so I never felt it was necessary to make the mush. Some breeder prefer to wean them on mush. Either method will work but I have found the dry food method works best for me and it is a lot less messy. |
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