Some owners of dogs begin to define puppies to new owners already from 3-week age. Of course, kids are already capable to eat firm food, but nevertheless food of puppies 3-6 week age needs to pay special attention.
What to feed little puppies with
For monthly puppies small cut crude meat is useful, on the contrary, it is undesirable to give forcemeat as it badly is digested and is practically not acquired. It is also useful to include in a diet kefir, cottage cheese, gruel from vegetables (sweet pepper, beet, carrots and tomatoes) and boiled grain (buckwheat, wheat, millet, barley and rice), boiled eggs and crackers from black bread. All this can be mixed to meat that the full-fledged forage with all useful vitamins and minerals turned out.
When the puppy more or less gets used to new food, it is possible to choose one of three types of feeding: natural, mixed and dry. At a diet of the natural direction of feeding there has to be a meat (beef, a turkey, a rabbit and veal), it is possible to give a liver and heart occasionally. It is useful to offer puppies welded on meat buckwheat and rice broth of porridge, it is possible to add some stewed vegetables (broccoli, squash, carrots and pumpkin). The grown-up puppies can be fed with fish (fillet) and jelly from beef.
At the mixed feeding it is necessary to alternate a dry feed for puppies to natural food. The interval between receptions of ready factory food and natural has to make five hours. It is useful to give to a puppy an apple segment as a delicacy. It is possible to combine stewed vegetables with meat, but it is necessary to avoid vegetable products with intensive bright coloring, they can provoke an allergy. Contrary to popular belief in harm of dry feeds, they will not affect health of a puppy negatively if to remember fresh water in a bowl. It is necessary to choose the balanced forages for puppies as a part of whom there are necessary vitamins and minerals. Kids up to three months are fed with the dry food soaked in warm boiled water in proportions of 300 ml on 100 g of a forage. It is desirable to presoak every portion separately, but not to cook in advance large number of food. Since two months the puppies need to give a small amount of crude cartilages from time to time. The grown-up pets can be indulged with soft beef or veal stones. Six-month-old puppies can give porridge from oat-flakes, but semolina and porridges from it are harmful to dogs of all age.
How to feed little puppies
That the puppy who is taken away from mother was not capricious often, it is necessary to feed him at the same time. While he eats, it is necessary to talk to the pet tenderly. After feeding it is desirable to take the kid, to warm it and to put on a soft cozy stove bench. The cup with fresh water has to be always filled. It is better for puppy not to give whole milk. For convenience of a puppy and your comfort, bowls have to be steady and deep.