To provide healthy posterity, the dog needs the healthy and balanced nutrition both before pregnancy, and during it. But the healthy nutrition of new mummy after the delivery is especially important, she needs to restore as fast as possible forces to feed kids.
Feeding in the first days after the deliveryDuring childbirth or right after them a bough eats the remained afterbirths. Some manufacturers move away them before she manages to make it, but the majority after all inclines to allowing to dog to do what is put in the nature. Fabrics of afterbirths contain many nutritious and useful substances therefore no harm it from it will exist. The only thing that threatens an animal, is a slight diarrhea. But it and to the best – in this case the dog should not strain strongly, defecating.
If afterbirths were eaten, it is necessary to feed to a bough in 4-5 hours next time. In several first feedings it is possible to give broken rice which before it needs to be wetted for 8-12 hours then to make boiled water and to add to mix a little salt and vegetable oil. Such forage will help a dog to get rid of a diarrhea. In the first days after the delivery in a diet of an animal there should not be animal protein which still will well not be acquired. The diet of a dog has to consist of various porridges, fresh not really fat cottage cheese, omelets, cream of 10% fat content. There is a dog owes 5-6 times a day, she should not starve, but also do not allow overeat her too. You give to drink to her at least, than each 3 hours, give her fresh unboiled water and milk.
After the delivery, during feeding of puppies and some more weeks after that, in a diet of a dog have to be many dairy products, their quantity has to prevail over meat.
Feeding in the next daysAnimal fats it is possible to begin to enter into a diet boughs for the 8-10th day, it is better if it is an offal. Add the heart and a liver cut by medium-sized pieces to porridges and soups together with a small amount of fresh vegetables. From now on soups for it can be cooked on meat broths too. Diversify a diet of a dog, alternating dairy and meat feedings, adding the raw vegetables and fruit cut on pieces or grated if she eats them together with porridge.
Boughs after the delivery need to be added to a forage a ground egg shell, special vitamin complexes, regidron and other additives with minerals.
Consider that the lactation lasts only 6 weeks, already by the end of the 5th week the amount of milk considerably decreases. Therefore the amount of food which you give to a dog has to increase to this time constantly – and the amount of the exhausted milk becomes more too. Then, after you will begin to lure puppies, gradually reduce also portions of food for boughs. After puppies were taken away from her breast, feed it 3 times a day, still after a while transfer to usual one - or the two times mode of feeding.