How to raise a Great Dane? It is not easy to raise a Great Dane, there are a lot of problems to pay attention to. The following small beans for you to share the Great Dane breeding methods and precautions.

Great Dane breeding methods and precautions:

Great Danes are robust, well-developed limbs, enduring, emotionally stable, short-lived excitement, quiet, flexibility and ability to tolerate stimuli is poorer than that of the Wolfhound. On the command and gestures, such as the wolf dog 3 to 5 times can form the conditioned reflex, the Great Dane needs 6 to 10 times more. After rigorous training, the Great Dane has its unique advantages in patrolling, guarding and riot control. First, it is tall, fast running and strong deterrent. Secondly, it is not easy to degenerate after the formation of conditioned reflexes, concentration, loyalty to duty, tenacious style. Third, the ability to automatically track and capture criminals in the exploration of traces is strong. Fourth, the pouncing and biting power is large, and the effect of night use is good. The stride is large, easy and powerful. The back remains horizontal. The front limbs are extended to reach the ground below the snout. The head is raised high when traveling. When traveling faster, the landing point of the limbs tends to the centerline of the body. Elbows and hocks are neither turned in nor out. Courageous, friendly and trustworthy. Never shy or combative. The Great Dane is an affectionate, considerate, and loyal breed, and the Great Dane enjoys comfort, such as a warm den. In the United States and Canada and other places, their ears are usually broken after 2~3 months of birth.

Not a barking canine, they don’t bark for no reason. Of course, it may bark under special circumstances, such as when it is in heat. In order to attract the opposite sex, the Great Dane will also bark. And this is not a problem only for Great Danes, other pet dogs also become more barking when they are in heat. Their food is mainly meat and they also eat fruits.

Great Danes should be fed with dog food for dogs. Specialized dog food is a complete nutritional food specially developed according to the nutritional needs of dogs, which contains protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, minerals and other basic nutrients, enough to provide the dog’s growth needs. Many dog owners will feed human food to their dogs, and some owners will also think that dog food is too monotonous for their dogs to eat. In fact, because the dog’s nutritional needs are different from those of human beings, it is not only time-consuming and laborious to use human recipes to prepare dog food, but it is also difficult for dogs to consume complete and balanced nutrition. Although the short-term can not see much difference, but when the dog enters the old age, the health of the dog eating human food will be much worse than the dog eating dog food, some will also be premature aging.

The ingredients and number of food items are basically the same as at 2 months of age. As the Great Dane grows significantly every day, the portion should be increased appropriately, generally every 3-5 days, that is, 1/5 increase in the original amount. Note that if you mix your own food can slightly add a little salt. Puppies grow up after the body size, bone thickness and so on by the genetic decision, and eat the amount and nutritional status is not too related. In the growth and development stage of the puppy body parts are not all balanced growth, birth to 3 months, mainly long body weight, 4-5 months when the main growth in body length, 7 months after the main growth in body height. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the nutritional balance during the period of growth and development, and to ensure sufficient nutrients. However, if the puppy eats too much, it is easy to hurt the stomach and affect the gastrointestinal function, and if it eats too little, it can not guarantee the nutrients needed for the growth and development of the body, and the body will be thin, poor resistance and easy to get sick. Great Danes in the growth and development period are generally fed foods with balanced nutritional composition. There are many kinds of dog food specially designed for puppies in the market, and parents can choose to buy them according to their needs.

Great Dane bitch must be dewormed before mating, the first 30 days of gestation, the fetus is still small do not have to increase the special feed to the bitch, 30 days after the rapid development of the fetus, the demand for a variety of nutrients continues to increase, this time the bitch should be fed 3 times a day, but also should be appropriate to supplement protein-rich foods and calcium and vitamins and so on. After 50 days of pregnancy, when the fetus grows up and the abdominal cavity is full, it is necessary to feed more meals and less food. In the bitch before the litter 5d to 20 days after the litter, must feed enough milk production food. Chicken bones cooked millet porridge, plus brown sugar milk as the main food. Add boiled eggs, fish, chicken intestines and other milk-inducing food, bitch litter 30 days after the return to normal adult dog feeding method.

Bitches should have more than two people to take care of the litter, the pups just born within one or two minutes must be allowed to eat the colostrum of the bitch, just gave birth to each litter, must let the bitch lick the blood dry on the body, such as found in some of the pups just born will not be able to breathe and bark, that is, there is a pseudo dead phenomenon, at this time can be the head downward, left and right shaking the dog, and gently rhythmic pressure on the chest wall, such as will not be able to breathe and barking, it must be used in the mouth of the person to suck out the amniotic fluid in the mouth and nose of the pups. If you can’t breathe and bark, you must use human mouth to suck out the amniotic fluid in the mouth and nose of the puppy, and the puppy can start to breathe after 3~4min of artificial respiration, and then the puppy will be put into the body of the bitch for heat preservation. If the bitch can’t bite through the fetal membrane when the puppy is born, it should use scissors to cut through the fetal membrane to take out the puppy. If the bitch can’t bite through the umbilical cord of the puppy, it should use scissors to cut the umbilical cord in time at 2cm from the umbilical cord, and the puppy must be watched by special person for the first few days of its birth in order to prevent it from being crushed and stepped on by the bitch and died.

Newborn puppies to 20 days of age after 90% suffer from varying degrees of anemia, which leads to coat disorders, pale skin, developmental delays, poor growth is easily infected with a variety of diseases. Within 3~7 days of the birth of the puppy, iron supplementation, to the puppy intramuscular injection of 1mL of iron containing iron supplement king (or iron rich force). General Great Dane about 20 days of age can learn to walk, and grow teeth, breast milk is not enough to eat, the puppy began to learn to eat, the day to supplement food 2 ~ 3 times, will be milk, eggs, minced meat, cornmeal porridge and so on mixing all into the food tray so that it licked. 30 ~ 40 days of age the puppy to increase the food intake, the amount of milk to eat a reduction in the amount of milk, and gradually weaned, weaning should be less to feed more meals, 4 times a day to feed. Each meal is only allowed to eat 70% to 80% full. The dog must pay attention to the observation, do not let eat too much, 4 months of age daily feeding 3 meals, 6 days of age after the daily feeding 2 meals.