The shepherd's breed of sheep-dogs with the sonorous German name the Bern sennenhund is very loved by the beginning manufacturers as it is incredibly friendly to the person and genetically created as much as possible to please the owner. But getting puppies of the Bern sennenhund, it is necessary to consider a set of nuances and feature of breed. It is necessary to feed a dog strictly on the recommended diet.
You bought a 1.5-month-old puppy of the Bern sennenhund. Do not expect from the kid of too much. He is genetically clever, but for the present is not developed as an adult dog. So far your Bern sennenhund – still the child. And it is necessary to feed him as the child — it is nourishing, nutritious and it is most useful for correctly development of a dog.
The first two weeks after an intake of a dog give to a puppy the same food that the manufacturer gave, without adding anything new and without adding in serving size. Lift all objects which he could sgryzt from a field of vision of the Bern sennenhund. At puppies the growing teeth therefore it is better to prevent damage of things strongly itch.
Mode of feeding of the Bern sennenhund:
- From 2 to 5 months — 4 times a day
- From 5 to 8-10 months — 3 times
- Since 10 months — 2 times
It is recommended to choose suitable you as to the manufacturer a form of feeding of a dog:
- One dry feed
- Natural food
- The mixed table
Solve for yourself how to feed the Bern sennenhund to buy a suitable set of products.
Experienced dog breeders feed the Bern sennenhund is mixed, offering them the following diet since the birth.
From 1.5 months to 4-5 months:
- In the morning the dry feed (150 g) soaked in water and 100-150 ml of kefir
- During the lunchtime rice or buckwheat cereal on water and also grated carrots, pumpkin or a squash (in the total volume of 300-400 g), crude sea fish of a low-fat grade or any myasosoderzhashchy product
- Afternoon snack – cottage cheese of 10% of fat content 150 gi 150 ml of kefir
- Dinner – boiled grain with grated vegetables and a piece of meat (a crude offal, scraps or chicken breasts, but not pork)
- If the Bern sennenhund asks additives, enter the fifth meal from cottage cheese.
Vegetables in a diet
Give vegetables to a dog since early childhood. Vitamins and minerals arrive with them to a dog. Add to porridges as well various fruit and berries, do not forget to water with sunflower oil. It is possible to enter gradually up to 4 crude eggs a week.
General councils for feeding of dogs: 5 months are also more senior
- This age — optimum for transition to three meals a day.
- Before execution of a dog of one year from a diet it is not necessary to remove cottage cheese. It is always recommended to give it during the lunchtime or for an afternoon snack.
- Do not give to a puppy fat and fried food from your table. The ban extends also to spicy food.
- It is impossible to overfeed a puppy. He should not gain a lot of weight in the first year of life and to look well-fed that growth of bones was in time behind growth of a body.
- Various diet will allow to avoid input of the additional synthesized vitamin supplements. You remember, the surplus of vitamins is much more harmful, than their shortcoming.
- When at a puppy the change of teeth begins (from 4-5 months) provide him any variation for a razgryzaniye like artificial "stone" (it is saturated with calcium, phosphorus and the minerals, necessary for growth of teeth).
General recommendations about feeding of dogs: 10 months are also more senior
- Adult bernskikho sennenhunds should be fed only two times a day – in the morning and in the evening.
- At a diet there has to be a boiled grain, vegetables and fish/meat products. The dogs accustomed to fruit and vegetables eat apples and seasonal fruit with pleasure.
If the dog constantly lives in the apartment and seldom is on the street, then it is necessary to feed her with a qualitative dry feed from the birth and about one year. Observe the instruction of the manufacturer or specified on packing by quantity of a dry feed. At dry feeding not to do without the mineral additives appointed under control of the veterinarian.