Whelping & Raising Pups

some things to remember and have already been mentioned but worth repeating...keep mama and pups worm free and she needs to be on a high quality feed at least twice a day...if you can keep her with a good weight while she is nursing pups then your pups will be getting plenty of milk and they will also be healthy...and keep plenty of fresh water in front of her...she has to have plenty of water to make milk for the pups...

I don't keep her on a meat schedule after the pups are born on account they eat the placentas...but about 2 weeks before whelping I give her about a 1/2 pound of raw beef liver 3 times a week...

the pups I start feeding between 2.5 and 3 weeks...I mix whole cow's milk fortified with vitamin D...I try to keep it as effortless and painless as possible for me...I feed them twice a day and I mix the next meal right after feeding and keep in the fridge so there is no waiting period or extra work...at feeding time I take it out of the fridge and nuke it enough to warm it and adjust more milk to make it a little mushy until they are old enough to eat solid food...at that time I continue the milk in their feed without making a mush. At about 6 weeks I add cod liver oil to their feed and mix it evenly...it keeps them slick and shiny...I stop the milk in the feed at about 4 months but continue a high quality dry feed twice a day until 8 or 9 months of age...

I mostly only give one vaccine at about 8 weeks old and sometimes two of the same...always 7 in 1 plus corona...they tell you corona has been eradicated but I can't say I believe that...I remember when Parvo and Corona hit right around ~1980 so no one will ever tell me to not vaccinate for Corona...haven't lost any pups for either since those days...