Healthy nutrition - guarantee of health of a dog. The diet has to be balanced and also correspond to age of the pet. Let's consider, than to feed a puppy and an adult East European sheep-dog.
Feeding of puppies of VEO
Upon purchase of a puppy of the East European sheep-dog find out from the manufacturer, than kids eat, and at first you feed the pet with the same. Then gradually you transfer it to the diet. Such measure will allow to avoid vomiting and other problems.
Frequency of feedings depends on age of a puppy of a sheep-dog:
- up to 2 months - the 6th time/day;
- from 2nd to 4 months - 5 rubles;
- from 4th to 6 masses. - 4 rubles;
- in 6-9 months - 3 rubles/day.
You transfer the pet when to it 10 months are executed to 2-times feeding. During growth it is important to provide a sheep-dog with protein for the purpose of increase in muscle bulk therefore the diet has to consist for 50% from animal forages. Treat them:
- meat (veal, beef, lamb, chicken);
- offal (liver, hem, heart, lungs, kidneys);
- low-fat sea fish.
When choosing meat it is better to buy pieces where there are cartilages, sheaves, tendons. Fish, boiled egg give 2 rubles/week.
Feed to a puppy of a sheep-dog cottage cheese, other fermented milk products. For completion of energy carbohydrates are necessary, they contain in grain (buckwheat, rice, oat-flakes). Porridge can be cooked on meat broth.
To normalize work of a GIT, include in a diet vegetables (cabbage, beet, carrots) and greens. Vegetables soups and addition of sour cream or meat will be very useful to a puppy of VEO. Carrots can be given crude, previously it is grated and filled with sour cream or oil. For development vitamin and mineral fertilizing which is selected by the veterinarian are required for a puppy.
Feeding of adult individuals
The structure of a diet of an adult sheep-dog almost does not differ from a puppy diet. This meat, boiled grain, sea fish, an offal and 1 boiled egg in a week. From vegetables it is possible to give pumpkin, squash also. From greens feed parsley, salad, a chopped wood louse. Give meat every day, its quantity has to be from 30% of the total amount of a forage.
If a sheep-dog large, it is not necessary to overfeed her, otherwise the risk of development of obesity increases. For such pet increase amount of protein, vitamins in a diet and reduce the content of carbohydrates. Pay attention to pyast of a dog. If they weakened, it is necessary to reduce the caloric content of food and to include calcium medicines.
The East European sheep-dog can feed with ready industrial diets. For puppies, adult dogs of this breed on sale there is a dry feed a super-premium (Orijen, Acana) and a premium class (Purina ProPlan, Royal Canin, Eukanuba). There are diets which are specially developed for sheep-dogs (lines of forages Royal Canin, Eukanuba). The pet in free access has to have fresh water.
Are forbidden puppies, adult sheep-dogs:
- salty,
- smoked,
- fried,
- fat,
- potatoes,
- pork,
- river fish,
- crude liver,
- fresh bread,
- tubular bones.
Milk is contraindicated to adult dogs. There are restrictions connected with features of digestion at VEO. It is impossible to feed large pieces of meat, an offal and to give a lot of empty porridge. Such feeding will reduce life expectancy of an animal as negatively influences a GIT, a pancreas.