When to start feeding puppies wet food
What to feed 4 week old puppies when starting to wean onto solid food part 1
it's Tuesday morning the puppies are
four weeks old exactly today and we just
started last week 20 own over the
weekend to start to introduce some solid
or semi-solid fee we're using Bert
Bern's puppy Minnie and which is very
nice quality small bite dog food and the
aim is by the time the puppies leave us
they will be eating this dry and
currently and obviously they're eating
it in a very sloppy mixture made up with
and this puppy milk so we're going to
make the puppy milk up and then we'll
add it to the puppy food will only make
up a small quantity of see on this stage
because we really want to just have
enough food so that the peppers will eat
it all in one sitting and the public's
are still getting most of their intake
their calories for mum who's doing
really well West feeding them and the
other dogs are having a nosy to see
what's going on and we like the bones
our puppy food and we actually use it as
a treat with some of our smaller dogs
now because they like it so much and
also what we found with the band's food
although it's more expensive and some of
the brands of dog food
we've tried quite a few of them with our
older dogs and we found that this this
suits their tummies the best and they
will maintain their weight very nasty on
burns the adults drops on burns and is
it bears working yeah working with fans
working a mix which suits them very well
and we do fun to get a lot less wind
with it because you want to make so
we're making the lacteal up to the
recommended concentrations which is two
level scoops to a hundred and five mils
of hot water mix the milk formula in and
what I'm going to add is approximately
thirty grams of the burns puppy Minnie
into that it's a bit like making a puppy
food smooth and this kettle really is
just boiled so this has now got to sit
and what will happen is the the puppy
food will absorb quite a bit of the
liquid get very mushy and then before
we're serving it to the puppies because
they're so young and their teeth are
only just coming through we are going to
liquidize that with a
so it forms a complete mush and brows
just show them the salt we're using
basically you want to get the puppy food
once it's absorbed the milk it should
still be quite liquidy and then you just
blend the whole thing with this so
effectively you make him a puppy food
smoothie if it's too thick we'd add some
more milk to it have some of the puppy
milk just to thin it down and you want
it at this stage it quite a runny
consistency and so the puppies are sort
of lapping it up and the mic then there
won't be very many lumps in it at all so
it's very very easy for them to eat and
and gradually as they can older will
allow the food to be more lumpy and then
quite lumpy and then by the end they
should be on to the drive food we found
our seven puppies will eat this volume
of food and approximately five to ten
minutes but just about clearing the bowl
now just letting them in to finish it
off when we find that they are wanting
more or gradually increase the volumes
frequency wise we're feeding them at the
moment twice a day finding that's about
right mum still feeding them with her
milk but she's increasingly spending
shorter periods of time in with the
puppies feeding them think that's a
combination of her getting a little sore
now as their teeth come through but also
they're getting much stronger and
vigorous in their sucking okay I think
we'll wind it up there because it's a
little bit boring just look at the puppy
food and the blender and sodium I will
show you we'll show you later on we'll
be feeding the puppies bye for now
