What is the best dog food for Great Danes?
Foreign standards 1300g meat food, with an equal amount of bread (cookies) or 5 cups of dry food mixed with 3 cups of hot water. According to China’s national conditions and local practice, feeding method is: slaughterhouse chicken intestines, 1500 to 2000g per day raw feed, cornmeal, wheat and broken rice, a total of 500g or so, plus 1% salt, soaked and relocated carrots and greens together with the amount of carrots and greens poured into the pot to cook into thin gruel, mixing 10% fishmeal, 2% of the bone meal, cod liver oil powder, hygromycin calcium powder feeding, 1 day, 2 meals, timed and rationed. Fresh water in the water bowl should not be cut off.
Naturally formulated with no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives, Madden Dog Food Natural Ingredients is formulated with natural antioxidants: mixed tocopherols (natural vitamin E) and rosemary extract to maintain its freshness and taste.
Extracting omega-6 through natural linoleic acid and sunflower oil helps nourish your pet’s skin and coat, reduces itchy skin, and greatly reduces the incidence of skin diseases.
In addition, aminos and glucose are essential nutrients for the formation of cartilage cells and are natural tissue components of healthy joint cartilage. As your pet continues to grow and develop, the body becomes more and more deficient in aminos and glucose, and the joint cartilage continues to deteriorate and wear out. This is an essential nutrient for dogs.
Feeding for pregnancy and lactation:
Great Dane bitch must be dewormed before mating, the first 30 days of pregnancy, the fetus is still small do not have to add special feed to the bitch, 30 days after the rapid development of the fetus, the demand for various nutrients is increasing, then the bitch should be fed 3 times a day, should also be appropriate to supplement protein-rich foods and calcium and vitamins. After 50 days of pregnancy, when the fetus grows up and the abdominal cavity is full, it is necessary to feed more and less. 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.
Litter feeding:
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 down, swaying the dog left and right 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 and out of the amniotic fluid in the mouth and nose of the litter, after using artificial respiration for 3 to 4min after the litter can start to breathe, at this time, put the bitch into the body of the heat. If you still can’t breathe and bark, you have to use human mouth and amniotic fluid in the mouth and nose of the puppy, and the puppy can start to breathe after artificial respiration lasts for 3~4mins, and then the puppy will be put into the body of the mother dog for heat preservation.
If the pups are born when the bitch can not bite through the fetal membrane, to and with the shear force to cut through the fetal membrane to take out the pups, such as the bitch can not bite off the umbilical cord of the pups, should be timely with the shear force in the umbilical cord from the liver cord at 2cm to cut off the umbilical cord, the pups born in the first days of life must be guarded by a person 24h, to prevent the mother dog extrusion, trampled 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 delay, poor growth is easily infected with a variety of diseases. In the puppies born within 3 to 7 days of age, iron supplementation, to the puppies intramuscular injection of 1mL of iron containing iron tonic king (or iron rich force).
General Great Dane around 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, daily food 2 to 3 times, milk, eggs, minced meat, cornmeal gruel and so on mixing all into the food tray to let it lick and eat.
30 ~ 40 days old puppy food increases, milk consumption decreases, gradually weaning, weaning to feed less and more meals, feeding 4 times a day. Each meal only let eat seven or eight percent full. The dog must pay attention to observation when eating, do not let too much to eat, 4 months of age daily feeding 3 meals, 6 days of age after daily feeding 2 meals.