feeding pup cwd

[Richard Graham]

Hi could you tell me the best food to feed my CWD she 10 weeks and any informaion you could give me please Regards Richard

[draggar]

Where are you (most countries have different lines of food)?

I would personally stay away from puppy food. They usually have very high protein that can lead to some growing issues.

[Silvester]

I´m sorry for correcting you , draggar - but new reasarch has shown without any doubt that high protein containing of food for puppies does NOT cause any problems.

The difficulties can only come from too high calories / fat containment or / and simply too much non- natural food given to the youngsters.

Problems also happen mainly with artifical food , but normally not if you feed "Barf", that means natural food like meat, bones, fish and so on...

That`s because of the higher energy containment in the artifical food . It´s a concentration of calories which is normally not given in any natural food. ( if you not try to feed your puppy three times a day with pure lard...)

So in the main thing I agree with draggar - I also would not use commercial puppy- food. But of the reasons I told above, not because of too high protein.

Best greetings, Silvester

[draggar]

You should always watch the ingredients - if you do use commercial food and are in the USA avoid foods that list a "fat" product in the first 4-5 ingrediencts.

As for "natural" foods - giving them raw chicken once a week may not be a bad idea. Most grocery stores in diverse neighborhoods or meat markets / butcher shops will carry chicken backs. Grocery stores will normally sell half backs (1/2 the back) - meat markets / butcher shops will have full backs (both halves and the neck). Give them 2 half backs or 1 full back once a week (including the bones - they help keep teeth clean).

DO NOT COOK THE CHICKEN! Runce it under very hot water like you were preparing it for yourself then tive it to the pup as is. Your first few times you might also want to give a little kibble after (1/2 cup?) with some molases in it to help with any potential diarrhea issues that may come around.

Raw food is great but can get extremely expensive. BARF is great food, don't get me wrong, but it is very expensive here.

For commercial foods (available in the USA) we've primarily used Roay Canin's GSD forumla and Taste of the Wild.

[Richard Graham]

Originally Posted by draggar

You should always watch the ingredients - if you do use commercial food and are in the USA avoid foods that list a "fat" product in the first 4-5 ingrediencts.

As for "natural" foods - giving them raw chicken once a week may not be a bad idea. Most grocery stores in diverse neighborhoods or meat markets / butcher shops will carry chicken backs. Grocery stores will normally sell half backs (1/2 the back) - meat markets / butcher shops will have full backs (both halves and the neck). Give them 2 half backs or 1 full back once a week (including the bones - they help keep teeth clean).

DO NOT COOK THE CHICKEN! Runce it under very hot water like you were preparing it for yourself then tive it to the pup as is. Your first few times you might also want to give a little kibble after (1/2 cup?) with some molases in it to help with any potential diarrhea issues that may come around.

Raw food is great but can get extremely expensive. BARF is great food, don't get me wrong, but it is very expensive here.

For commercial foods (available in the USA) we've primarily used Roay Canin's GSD forumla and Taste of the Wild.

Draggar thank you very much this is a great help, so you give the chicken raw and with kibble once a week what would you feed it on every day? also what is the best for vitamins

[Vaiva]

Originally Posted by draggar

DO NOT COOK THE CHICKEN! Runce it under very hot water like you were preparing it for yourself then tive it to the pup as is. Your first few times you might also want to give a little kibble after (1/2 cup?) with some molases in it to help with any potential diarrhea issues that may come around.

I was feeding my dog RAW for 4 years, then decided to change to kibbles (Orijen), but after few months came back to RAW and I plan not to change it anymore. She likes to eat it, I like it how she looks. I never put meat under hot water, even if a meat is allready smelly - she only finds it better tasting. After torturing dog with kibbles, she started to like even sea fish Sometimes i even feed Brukne every other day - but then she gets a double portion, seems like this also suits her.

[pixie]

do you have one of Lee's pups if so i have one from his last litter and been feeding her raw food and table scraps from getting her and she is doing ok

[draggar]

Putting the chicken under hot water is to kill any microbes (like e-coli) on the aurface of the chicken (whcih is normally killed in cooking but this isn't cooked).

[Richard Graham]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm godzilla Rabbit ,Dr Frankstein dream ,really ha ha ha

[Shadowlands]

We need to get a breeding pair in Bulgaria - that would solve lots of issues with the pack (humans included)!!

[Silvester]

http://connect.in.com/hydrocynus-gol...54c2adf03.html

May be people who have this monster-rabbit also have this fish in their garden- pond ....instead of a goldfish !

(It´s a so called African Tigerfish or in latin : Hydrocynus goliath - but you can only meet and say hello to it , if you are swimming in Congo- river...)

I want to add, that african people say it´s the only fish which is not afraid of crocodiles - and it´s also called "African piranha".

Nice dreams to everybody !

Silvester

[Richard Graham]

Originally Posted by richardgraham

Hi could you tell me the best food to feed my CWD she 10 weeks and any informaion you could give me please Regards Richard

we stay in uk carlisle