The dog mother finally gave birth to the baby smoothly and entered the lactation period. At this time, the dog mother was very weak and needed the careful care of the shoveling officer to recover her health as soon as possible and do a good job of lactation.
feeding postpartum dog, nutrition to be in place!
Postpartum mother dog diet not only to meet their own nutritional needs, but also to meet the needs of the mother dog milk, to ensure that the dog baby to eat healthy and nutritious milk. Therefore, the dog mother after the production of nutritional supplements must not be less.
1 Choose the right staple food
The shoveling officer should prepare high-nutrition, easy-to-digest, high-protein, low-fat, and calcium-rich dog food for postpartum dogs, such as baby dog food or food during pregnancy.
2 a big meal with milk
Dog mother milk to supplement protein, can be appropriate to feed chicken, beef, lean meat and so on. But do not eat too greasy, excessive intake of fat will block the breast.
3 can not be ignored calcium
lactating dog mother is very prone to calcium deficiency, postpartum calcium deficiency not only seriously affect the dog mother's own health, will also affect the development and growth of the dog baby.
4 appropriate supplement of other nutrients
(1) Postpartum dog mother nutrition loss is serious, shoveling excrement officer can give the dog proper feeding nutrition cream, milk powder and other digestible nutrition to quickly supplement nutrition.
How to arrange the deworming and immunization of postpartum dogs?
1 Repellent
When the puppies are 20-25 days old, the female dog needs to be deworming for the first time to avoid parasites on the dog's mother from infecting the baby. Baby dogs can be deworming at the age of 45 days.
2 Immunization
The vaccine is injected at the age of 2 months. If the female dog is not immunized before pregnancy, the female dog's immunization can be carried out at the same time as the first injection of the puppy.
Matters needing attention in postpartum dog care
What time can I take a bath?
The dog enters the stage of uterine involution and excrete lochia after delivery. It is best not to take a bath before the lochia is discharged, so as to avoid the bath water entering the birth canal and causing infection. The body can be cleaned with dry cleaning powder, dry cleaning foam.
2 Select low-sensitivity bath
After the lochia is discharged, you can take a bath. Due to the allergic itching of the skin of lactating dogs, you can use low-sensitivity and moisturizing baths, which are not suitable for whitening, color enhancement and deworming baths with other functional types.
3 Environmental disinfection
Lactating dogs need a clean and comfortable environment to avoid being infected with various diseases, so the daily disinfection of the family environment is essential.
