the best food to build a pup

[JoeLedger 0]

anyone know the right food to build a pup up with fussy eater or not ?

[collie x 26]

Long as it is getting plenty of good foods it will be fine. No shite. What you put in is what you get out

[Runningdogs3 59]

As long as it's getting enough good quality food it will be fine. If you try to push growth from a young age you can end up with all sorts of problems later with ligaments and joints.

[buster gonads 862]

Scrambled egg one morning and cheap rice pud the next plus thier usual food untill they are around 6 months, works for me, it should go without saying that if it upset,s the dog then stop, buster.

Edited September 28, 2012 by buster gonads

[skycat 6,173]

For pups under 12 weeks of age:

Breakfast: scrambled egg and wholemeal toast with plenty of real butter on it. Couple of spoons of whole milk natural live yoghurt.

 

Lunch: Either finely minced chicken (whole carcase bones and all, well smashed or minced), bit of rice or pasta, Kelp Seaweed Powder.

 

Supper: Same as lunch but sometimes add a bit of top quality complete as they leave this to begin with but it gives them something to nibble on if they get hungry in the night.

 

I vary the mince between chicken, rabbit and beef or hare or venison.

 

Pups have access to large meaty bones throughout the day to gnaw on, exercise jaws and strip meat off.

 

Once over 12 weeks I tend to stop the scrambled egg and substitute a meat meal instead, though still give eggs couple of times a week.

Also substitute oily fish: tinned tuna or mackerel for one of the meat meals once or twice a week.

Little pups don't seem to like veg too much, but as they get older they will eat it better. Finely chopped and steamed carrots, sprouts, spinach, celery. From 6 months they get it minced and raw.

[Tiny 7 1,694]

I like too get as much meat into them as they'll eat,

 

Iknow alot of people like too use rice pudding and milky slops porriage too build them up, But its not one i like myself as much minced/chunked meat/fish and a little pasta they'll eat at a sitting maybe 3/4 meals a day when pup's and soon as they hit about 14/16 wks tend too only feed twice a day till there ready for for one full meal in a day

[sowhat 1,572]

Eukanuba puppy,expensive but does the job

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

Cheap butchers mince, tripe and porridge oats rolled up like meatballs, dogs love it

[skycat 6,173]

I like too get as much meat into them as they'll eat,

 

Iknow alot of people like too use rice pudding and milky slops porriage too build them up, But its not one i like myself as much minced/chunked meat/fish and a little pasta they'll eat at a sitting maybe 3/4 meals a day when pup's and soon as they hit about 14/16 wks tend too only feed twice a day till there ready for for one full meal in a day

 

I never give milky stuff, rice pudding or slops. Pups need plenty of protein, not mushy cereals. Someone once said to me: the answer in how to feed is in the word 'weaning'. Weaning means that the pup doesn't need milk any more: and it should go on to the sort of food that nature intended: meat/bones etc. Very good advice indeed.

[buster gonads 862]

I drink milk every day, the dog every other day of our long healthy lives, dont think i was weaned , buster.

[jessdale 416]

Eukanuba puppy,expensive but does the job

+1

[Slipthebitch 9]

How much are you getting eukanuba for ? Best i can find is £40

[Carraghs Gem 1,675]

Gain puppy and sapling as a mixer

Raw Cow tongue, raw heart, raw chicken wings, tinned fish, raw fish heads, liver, rabbit, boiled pasta with egg, cooked rice with turkey mince, raw eggs... Variety is important and worm regularly

[Wolfie 106]

Got a young russell pup thats on royal canin puppy top food but expensive.4o quid delivered ov the net

[sowhat 1,572]

How much are you getting eukanuba for ? Best i can find is £40

 

Don't think you'll get it any cheaper pal