How to organize the feeding of puppies?

Feeding puppies is a question to which an intelligent host should take with all seriousness. It is at the age of one year that the foundation of the dog's health is laid, at which time the skeleton and teeth are finally formed. The condition of the wool cover, as well as the working qualities of the dog, depends on the correct nutrition of the puppy.

Of course, the diet of puppies of different breeds can have significant differences. It is clear that the kids of large breed need more intensive nutrition than small dogs.

As a rule, the mother feeds the puppies from 30 to 45 days. It is not necessary to take away babies before this term, as this can adversely affect their development. Beginning at the age of three weeks, you can begin to introduce complementary foods, using warm (body temperature) cow (ideally, goat) milk, which is supplemented with a whipped egg (one piece for 250 milliliters of milk).

The initial dose of complementary foods is 100 grams, and by the age of four weeks it should increase to 400 grams (this includes milk, which is used to make porridge)

At the age of 20-23 days in the diet of puppies introduce semi-liquid porridge, cooked from rice or buckwheat. From the month of age of puppies, you can start feeding from bowls, which should be sufficiently deep and stable.

A couple of days after the start of feeding with milk porridges, puppies begin to give beef or veal stuffing, which is later replaced with raw finely chopped meat. The initial portion of meat is 30-35 grams. By the age of one month the puppy should receive 100 grams of meat per day.

If you take the puppy into the house, then, as a rule, it happens at the time when the baby turned 1.5 months old. The change of place of residence should not greatly affect the baby's diet, so be sure to ask how the puppy's feeding was organized by the breeder.

At the age of 2-2.5 months, puppies need to be fed every three hours, at an older age the amount of feeding is reduced to five times, while increasing portions. At the age of five months, puppies are fed 4 times, after half a year - 3 times. And by the age of one year a puppy can be transferred to a two-time feeding. Do not leave a bowl of food in constant access. At the end of feeding, the dishes should be cleaned, but a container of clean water should be available to the puppy at any time.

So, what to feed the puppies at the age of one and a half to two months? The most nutritious and the necessary food for the dog is meat products. In the diet of the puppy must be present precisely raw meat, and you need to carefully monitor that the product that is fed to the puppies was flawlessly fresh!

Some offal, such as stomach, can be given to the puppy exclusively in boiled form, but it must be remembered that when boiling meat loses almost half of its nutrients. Organizing feeding puppies, it is necessary to remember that dogs are contraindicated with fatty meat, and such kind of meat products as pork should be completely excluded from the diet.

Once a week the puppy is useful to give raw fish cut into slices. For dogs, oceanic fish should be purchased, since the river is often infected with worms. Also, once a week, it is worth giving a raw egg, which must be mixed with other food.

The nutrition of the puppy will be inadequate if the ration does not include vegetables and cereals. Raw vegetables should be rubbed on a grater, as well as pieces to the puppy, gnawing at them, cleaned their teeth. Potatoes should be given infrequently and only in a boiled form.

But various sweets, including sweets, should be completely excluded from the diet, it will not bring any benefit to the puppy.

It is necessary to give the kids vitamin supplements - calcium gluconate, fitin, ground chalk, fish oil. A five-month-old puppy should receive a tablespoon of fish oil a day, next to a bowl for water is to put a container in which will be brewer's yeast and chalk pieces. Two-month-old puppies are useful regularly, but in a limited amount give raw cartilage. And since six months - soft veal bones.

The food that is given to the puppies should have a temperature of about 30 degrees. Never give your pets frozen or overheated food.