Feeding your pup
We feed raw food that contains green tripe, muscle meet, trachea, gullet, finely ground bones & bone marrow. These ingredients contain enzymes that help with digestion, amino acids, friendly bacteria lactobacillus acidophilus and chondroitin sulfate for cartilage health. It has the ideal calcium/phosphorus ratio and offers the essential fatty acids. We have seen great results with raw diet and found it to be the best diet we can offer to our dogs. From the age of 12 weeks we feed our puppies twice daily until the age of 6 to 9 months and once a day thereafter. After feeding, the puppy must have a rest. Play time and walks are to be practiced before feeding. It is imperative that you keep your puppy lean! Bones, joints and tendons/ligaments are very soft at a young age and carrying extra weight may cause irreversible damage to your puppy.
If you choose to feed your dog dry kibbles, feed your puppy a high quality Puppy Food, consisting of not higher than 28% protein. Excessive protein, vitamins and minerals can also be harmful.
Bones, joints and tendons/ligaments are very soft at a young age and carrying extra weight may cause irreversible damage to your puppy. Overweight puppies will develop joint & skin problems and may eventually develop hip and/or elbow displasia. I can not express strongly enough how imperative it is to keep your puppy LEAN. With that said, high quality food & proper nutrition in vital.
When you first bring your new puppy home he may have loose stool as a results of the environmental change and its related stress. That’s perfectly normal. You can stabilize the puppy’s stool by mixing steamed rice to his food.
The amount of food you should feed your puppy is very individual. Some puppies are more active than others and naturally need more food. Generally a young puppy should be fed twice a day (morning & evening) about one cup of dry food. We recommend supplementing each meal with calcium tablets and some source of quality raw food available in most major pet stores.
Staring at 6 to 9 months of age, you may feed the combined daily amount of food once a day.After feeding the should dog rest. Jumping or running on a full stomach may cause a stomach torsion.
I just found your post. Raw dog food is by far the best. It looks like you have some very nice dogs. GSD are one of my favorite.
I have a few questions with regard to the article you have written.
“We feed raw food that contains green tripe, muscle meet, trachea, gullet, finely ground bones & bone marrow.”
-Is this food you speak of prepackaged or is it purchased straight from a butcher?
“These ingredients contain enzymes that help with digestion, amino acids, friendly bacteria lactobacillus acidophilus and chondroitin sulfate for cartilage health. It has the ideal calcium/phosphorus ratio and offers the essential fatty acids.”
-Do you add any supplements to the diet?
-How is the Calcium/Phosphorus ratio calculated? I believe I saw somewhere that it should be 1:0 to 1:2 or something like that? What does this mean?
“We have seen great results with raw diet and found it to be the best diet we can offer to our dogs. From the age of 12 weeks we feed our puppies twice daily until the age of 6 to 9 months and once a day thereafter.”
-How much food is given based on age?
“After feeding, the puppy must have a rest. Play time and walks are to be practiced before feeding.”
-I agree, this lessens the chance of bloat, although this fatal illness occurs more often with dogs fed on commercial kibble.
Thanks so much for the post.
1. we buy it from greentrip.com (ask for mary or Libbie) tell them I sent you. Ronnie from Blossom-Land
2. I do mix it with good quality dog kibbles, sometime I’ll add c capsul of cod liver oil and for the your ones calcium. I don’t over do it. I don’t calculate ratios either.
3. After so many years I learned to “eye ball”it. I can’t have the dogs too fat they need to have a “shaply waiste line” when you look from above.
I have more info on my current blog, this one is hardly active
www. blossom-land.com/gsdblog
Thank you, Ronnie