feeding

[Guest Frank]

im having a little trouble with my pups as there stooles are very white and crumbly like there is to much calcium in there diet and fern deffinatley is finding it hard to pass her pooh like shes constipated.can anyone help as it just isnt right.heres there diet if it helps. they have 1lb of mince chicken in the morning each about 8 -9 oclock then they have 1/2 lb of mince chicken each in the afternoon about 6 ish .with one of the two meals they will have a whole carrot ,apple ,tomato and brockely ,most days that is.the next day is the same but except they have tripe mince instead of chicken.

they are given raw bones every 2-3 weeks and they always have access to water all day.what can i do because deffinatley dont want to feed complete of any kind.cheers

 

good hunting

 

rew

 

A bit of veg oil mixed into the food, or cod liver oil.

[sandymere 8,263]

A meat/bone only diet may not give all the required nutrients and energy sources, especially for a pup. You could try adding a little mashed veg to rice, porridige etc with would 1.vary the diet to get her used to it while young 2. give a wider range of nutrients in a natural form to ensure good development, suppliments may have a low absorbsion rate. 3 give glucose energy for sprinting etc. The more sprinting the more carbs.

[tyson 1]

tyson whats sa37 and where would i you get it?

 

 

its a kind of vitamin powder , got vits A - Z b12 CALCIUM , etc etc...

get it from local pet supplies or horse supplies stores

[Guest Frank]

You can get in here aswell.

 

http://www.greyhoundmegastore.com/page9.html

[skycat 6,174]

I've actually taken on a pup that is the fussiest finicky eater I've ever known!

For a while he ate rabbit ok, but then he decided that he'd only eat chicken (both of these are raw carcases, bones and all: minced in the case of the rabbit, cut into chunks and smashed up a bit in the case of the chicken. Some days he'll eat greens and apples, other days he'll eat pasta or toast. I know that people will say that I'm spoiling him but when you have a pup that will only ever eat once or occasionally twice a day (at the age of 5 months), then you have to get whatever food you can down his throat. I wouldn't mind if he was as fat as butter, but he ain't!

 

Tinned oily fish such as sardines or tuna or mackerel in oil (not brine: too salty) often work a treat when getting a pup to eat new things: they love the flavour and it encourages them to eat other things when it's flavoured with fishy oil. Scrambled eggs on toast: all chopped up can also tempt a pup.

 

The main thing is to get as wide a variety as possible of food into the pup: don't worry if it won't eat exactly the same thing every day, WE don't need to eat a perfectly balanced diet every day as long as we are getting the right combination of nutrients per week, for example.

 

Once this pup is full grown I'll let the little b****d starve himself rather than pander to his whims: for now I'll accomodate him as he needs to get some food inside him: he is growing OK though, and that's the main thing.

 

The only other time I've had or known pups like this was with pure Wolfhounds or Deerhounds. Once they hit a year old they seem to settle down and eat anything.

 

The other thing I do with this pup is wrap half a teaspoonful of SA37 in a lump of butter and push it down his throat: there's no way he'd eat anything with SA37 on it otherwise!