The puppy of a poodle is ready to replace a diet from maternal milk with artificial nutrition at the age of six weeks. However it is necessary to accustom to new food of a puppy gradually and carefully.
Instruction
1. Before achievement of two-month age the little poodle has to eat six times a day. Milk porridges have to form the basis of its diet: semolina, millet, gerkulesovy and rice. To provide a puppy organism with necessary vitamins, porridges should be alternated to cream soups on the basis of vegetables. Food should not be too hot or cold, and the serving size has to be such that the puppy could eat everything entirely, without leaving scraps.
2. Aged from two up to four months the five times food is necessary to puppies, then – up to five months – four times, and to half a year the number of meals has to be reduced to three times. Since two-month age it is safely possible to add meat and fish and also a crude liver to a diet of a puppy (beef or chicken) in small amounts. From the products containing proteins, puppies are also recommended to give cow's milk, and from uglevodosoderzhashchy food – buckwheat cereal.
3. From the same age the puppy can begin to give cartilages and also sugar bones. However it is not necessary to give to a puppy of a bone of a bird or fish at all. Also under a ban there have to be sausages, ham and also excessively spicy food. Besides, it is not necessary to give to puppies the meat broth or dishes prepared on its basis as it can negatively affect quality of wool. And not to cause problems with a stomach, the puppy should not give many eggs – no more than two pieces a week.
4. To prevent development of rickets, the puppy should add chalk, calcium glycerophosphate, phosphoric lime and also vitamin D promoting digestion of calcium to food. Also the calcinated cottage cheese which for a change can be served in the form of cheesecakes will be useful to puppies. Cottage cheese should be given to a puppy not less than two times a week.
5. That the necessary vitamins came to an organism of a puppy, it is necessary to include fresh vegetables and fruit in his diet constantly. Vegetables can be served in the form of the salads filled with a small amount of vegetable oil or sour cream.