The dog in the family has become a mother, and the shoveling officer must be looking forward to the arrival of a new life. While looking forward, the shoveling officer should also take good care of the pregnant mother dog so that the mother dog can give birth to a healthy baby dog smoothly!
Dog Pregnancy Cycle
Dog pregnancy cycle is generally 58-68 days, an average of 63 days. However, due to the different physique of dogs, there may be early birth or delayed birth of dog babies.
The manifestation of the dog's pregnancy
2-3 weeks after successful mating, the dog will appear loss of appetite, restlessness, vomiting and other phenomena.
Take care of pregnant dogs, feeding is exquisite
What should a pregnant dog eat?
Dogs during pregnancy, it is recommended to shovel excrement officer choose high quality staple food, with calcium, nutrition cream and other health care products to feed the dog.
When choosing dog food, we should pay attention to choosing pregnant mother dog food, whole dog food or high protein staple food, which can provide the necessary nutrition for pregnant dogs.
Since the puppies will take away a large amount of calcium from the dog's mother's body when breastfeeding in the future, attention should be paid to calcium supplementation for the dog's mother, and appropriate amount of nutrition cream and milk powder can be used to supplement nutrition for the dog's mother.
2 Precautions for feeding during pregnancy
(1) During pregnancy, the female dog's abdominal pressure increases and is prone to indigestion. Pay attention to eating less and more meals. You can feed probiotics and snack tablets to help digestion.
(2) early pregnancy began to eat and drink will lead to the bitch is too fat, causing dystocia. The feeding amount in the first month of pregnancy is about 100-110 of the usual amount, and the feeding amount can be increased by 10% every week from the 5th week of pregnancy.
Immune deworming problems in pregnant dogs
1 Immunity
Vaccination is not allowed during pregnancy. If the female dog is not immunized before pregnancy, the female dog's immunization this year can be carried out at the same time as the first shot of the young dog.
2 Deworming
(1) No worm pulling symptoms and no worm detection are not deworming.
(2) There are many bugs, and attention should be paid to deworming:
① Preventive deworming: It is safest to use 45 days after pregnancy or 20 days after delivery. The product description of deworming drugs should be selected and can be used for pregnant dogs.
Dogs during pregnancy cleaning care
When can I take a bath?
Dogs are recommended not to bathe for a period of time after breeding, because dogs can be planted about 17 days after conception, so as to avoid bathing affecting their physical condition.
In principle, pregnant dogs can be washed once every 15 days, but they can only choose to take a shower to avoid catching a cold. If the dog is really dirty and cannot take a bath, the shoveling officer can clean the dog's body with dry cleaning powder or dry cleaning foam.
