Feeding a puppy...advice

[canaliculata 28]

Hi all, been a while since i got a puppy, im possibly thinking of getting one soon and i want to be prepared the best i can.

 

Any advice you can give regarding what you would suggest feeding from 8weeks on would be helpful. My adult dogs are not on a competely raw diet. I usually give them a complete food with meat or fish in etc.

 

Any suggestions of good puppy mixers etc and anything else you can think of would be great.

 

Thanks all.

Edited December 19, 2011 by canaliculata

[tus 22]

chudleys puppy till 6 months then chudleys jnr for my two

beta puppy

[ftm 3,357]

beta puppy for my two

[jessdale 416]

get a puppy food with meat as the main ingredient . Lamb or chicken should be the 1st on the ingredient list on the bag

[The Duncan 802]

A quality puppy food and lamb mince

[Rhodey 96]

The best thing to feed is the puppy food that the breeder has been feeding save changing and upsetting there stomaches. Then when 6 months on to adult food.

[canaliculata 28]

Cheers all

[stroller 341]

chappie tinned dog food, with sardines, calcium powder and with the odd egg added, until the pup is 10 or 11 months. Then i put them on a dry mix chappie complete with occasional raw meal of rabbit or chicken wings which helps to keep their teeth clean.

 

I have reared a few pups on this mixture running dogs and gundogs, they seem to thrive and its easily digested and you dont get a bucket load of poo every day

 

put the best into them at a young age and you set the building blocks for a long working life. Enjoy your puppy

[skycat 6,173]

Pups need to chew on stuff: there's no better way to keep them happy, exercise their jaws and teeth, than to feed them raw. Chicken carcases, breast of lamb, chicken wings: no need to feed them tins or dry complete. Variety is best so they get all they need.

[canaliculata 28]

Thankyou everybody for that. All taken on board.

 

Canaliculata