Butterfly Dog Breeding Considerations:
Butterfly puppies are the fastest growing and developing, and also have the highest number of morbidity and mortality. Therefore, at this stage we must understand the growth and development rules and physiological characteristics of the puppy, to give scientific care. Puppy age is the main stage of the dog’s growth and development, the body grows rapidly, and therefore must be supplied with adequate nutrition. Weaned puppies, due to the sudden change in living conditions, often seem to be restless, easy to get sick, this time to choose good nutrition, good taste, easy to digest food.
Butterfly puppies within 3 months are fed at least 3~4 times a day. Can be used to add less hard to feed the method, so that the butterfly puppies always have a sense of not full, not tired of, picky eaters; 4 to 6 months of age of the butterfly dog, the amount of food increases, the weight increases very quickly, the amount of daily feed also increased, at least 3 times a day to feed; 6 months of age after the butterfly dog, feed 2 times a day can be.
It is worth noting that the gastrointestinal function of puppies less than 2 months old is not very strong, the dog food should be softened and fed. There is no condition should also be fed with diluted rice, soy milk and add appropriate amount of chopped fish, meat and chopped boiled vegetables. Do not feed milk, if you must supplement lactation, you should also try to use special dog milk powder or high calcium skimmed milk powder.
After 2 months of puppies, you can use special puppy dog food. In order to reduce spending without affecting the nutrition of the puppy, pig, cow, chicken lungs and other organs can be cooked and chopped, and vegetables, cornmeal and other cooked food mixed and fed to the dog, so that both the economy, the dog and love to eat. Do not feed your dog too much meat, too much meat not only can not make the dog healthy, but will lead to indigestion, causing diarrhea. Meat protein, but vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and iodine less, at the same time, meat calcium less phosphorus, long-term meat, easy to cause calcium and phosphorus ratio imbalance in the body of the puppy, resulting in the formation of bone disorders, easy to break or lameness. It is best to let the dog drink some glucose water (1 tablespoon of glucose powder with appropriate amount of clean water) after each daily exercise. In addition, the puppy’s diet should be supplemented with calcium and vitamins such as calcium tablets and multi-microbiotics .
Butterfly dogs are not picky about food, but nutrition should be comprehensive, especially protein and vitamins should not be lacking. Feed for Butterfly Dogs can be divided into three main categories: animal feed, plant feed and additives. The newborn puppies are very tender and the breeder should always observe to prevent the mother from crushing the puppies.
Puppies can suckle on their own after birth, but the weak puppies need to be placed on the mother’s chest to help them feed. Bitches have 8-10 nipples and have limited ability to feed their litters. Large bitches can nurse up to 10 litters, but if the number is too large, they should consider fostering or hand-feeding to ensure that their litters grow up strong and healthy.
Butterfly dog after birth 3 months – 6 months of age, become a young dog, at this time the dog has been able to live independently, feeding can be changed to two times a day, feeding should be done at regular intervals, quantitative, qualitative, fixed temperature, eat food should be taken care of. At this time, the young dog’s canine teeth have grown, like to gnaw, can be appropriate to throw some bones to make it bite and chew.
The dogs should be separated according to the strength and weakness, pick out the young dogs that love to fight, and put them into the group of dogs of larger age, so as to avoid biting the group of fights and causing losses. Breeding dog’s nutritional needs are high, generally in addition to morning and evening feeding, and then again in the middle of the feeding. In addition to ensure that the breeder’s daily activity, should be in the large activity field activities 2 times to 3 times a day, each time about 30 minutes. This is to ensure the quality of male dogs, but also to enhance the physical condition of female dogs.