Barbara Earnhardt Webboard User Reg: 03-09-2006
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I have a litter of puppies and started them on a raw diet. Well, I was talking to a freind that had a litter she had on a raw diet and hers came down with rickets(?)s. She told me that I would be better off just using a dry dog food reasons: cheaper, easier for the new buyers, ect.... But I don't to lose what I have started THIS is the best looking litter I have had out of 12 litters and I credited it to the raw (first time using raw on puppies).
What should I look for or make sure I have in thier diets. Thanks Barbara
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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I have a litter of puppies and started them on a raw diet. Well, I was talking to a freind that had a litter she had on a raw diet and hers came down with rickets(?)s. She told me that I would be better off just using a dry dog food reasons: cheaper, easier for the new buyers, ect.... But I don't to lose what I have started THIS is the best looking litter I have had out of 12 litters and I credited it to the raw (first time using raw on puppies).
What should I look for or make sure I have in thier diets. Thanks Barbara
Rickets? In NC?
Rickets (not common) would generally be seen in a dog whose diet was very unbalanced in phosphorous, calcium, and Vitamin D.
In a place like NC, that would likely be a result of a diet in which the meat-bone ratio is was off, with too much phosphorous (meat).
Are you feeding a balanced diet? That is, you are feeding the equivalent of a whole prey animal with the meat-bone ratio, plus 5-10% organ meat?
You can have your dogs blood checked.
I'm not a health professional and I do not have puppy experience.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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I looked in the vet manuals.
1. Animals fed all-meat diets are commonly affected.
2. Also, diets with excessive amounts of calcium (3 times normal concentrations) have caused ricket-like signs in growing Great Danes.
3. Correction of the diet is the primary treatment.
So it does seem that the other person might have been giving a pretty unbalanced calcium-phosphorous ratio.
We talk about that here often, and about the nutritional no-no of no-bone diets, as well as the various ways to replicate the meat-bone ratio of the animal the dog would eat (including feeding the whole animal, of course).
But might as well take the chance to say it again: Although feeding fresh raw food is simple and easy, the owner does have to read some, and do it properly.
Barbara Earnhardt Webboard User Reg: 03-09-2006
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I was hoping that you would sign on Connie She said she was feeding a lot of chicken I don't know if bones were included or not.
I use a Solid gold product - bone meal. IT has phosphorous, calcium, plus they are on goat milk (actually puppy milk replacer that Ed uses). We have started to add tuna, hambuger beef liver, chicken livers and salmon to the puppy milk. Also I find adding a TBLSP of pumkin really helps plus is good in A and C. I have never had a puppy have rickets and did not want to start.
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I was hoping that you would sign on Connie She said she was feeding a lot of chicken I don't know if bones were included or not.
I use a Solid gold product - bone meal. IT has phosphorous, calcium, plus they are on goat milk (actually puppy milk replacer that Ed uses). We have started to add tuna, hambuger beef liver, chicken livers and salmon to the puppy milk. Also I find adding a TBLSP of pumkin really helps plus is good in A and C. I have never had a puppy have rickets and did not want to start.
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I know zero about that supplement or about nursing puppies. I DO know that Ed and Cindy have a page on feeding puppies, with a sample day of meals. See all those real bones? http://leerburg.com/feedpups.htm
Barbara Earnhardt Webboard User Reg: 03-09-2006
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Yes, we will be adding bones shortly as they are getting good jaw pressure. Thanks for the chinken wings I did not think of that. I agree you have to read up on everything or find people that know thus that is why I come here. I am always learning. Thanks everyone. Barbara
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