hand rearing

[tango 221]

AGAIN THANKS EVERYONE MIGHT GET A CHANCE FOR A COUPLE OF PICS TOMOROW,THEY ARE ALL THRIVIN WELL AND GETTIN BIG FAST.THANKS AGAIN AND GOOD HUNTING

[tango 221]

just a bit of an update,all is well all all are still thriving and gettin big

[tango 221]

forgot to say they turned 2 weeks yesterday

[Guest smashygadge]

forgot to say they turned 2 weeks yesterday

 

 

glad your still doing well tango hope your not too tierd just turneded 2 weeks thats good another week they will be lapping next week be a bit easier on you .well done

[Guest smashygadge]

just a bit of an update,all is well all all are still thriving and gettin big

 

 

and looking well fit them tango and contented

[tango 221]

thanks fella they are goin well gave them a little rice pudding with their milk today as they were taking what it gave on the tin for 4 weeks half of them nearly ate the dish,but i will only do that a little as i dont want to stress their stomach

[Guest smashygadge]

thanks fella they are goin well gave them a little rice pudding with their milk today as they were taking what it gave on the tin for 4 weeks half of them nearly ate the dish,but i will only do that a little as i dont want to stress their stomach

 

 

i used to crush shredded wheat aswell with their milk but as you say not too much

makes it a bit harder to have a number 2 lol.i take it you will be keeping 1 or 2 after all

your hard work

[skycat 6,174]

Youa re obviously doing a fantastic job with them to have kept them all.

 

Just to add my two pence worth: Personally I wouldn't go anywhere near cereal of any sort, except maybe the rice pudding if you really feel you must. I've not had the job of hand rearing completely like you, but I did have a bitch become ill with a virus once and dry up when the pups were 2 12 weeks old. I was giving them scraped raw chicken, just tiny pieces the size of my finger nail at that age: no problems with shits or upset stomachs at all, and by 3 weeks they were eating scraped lamb and chicken mush (warmed with a little bit of hot water so the whole lot was mushy and warm).

I've got a litter of terrier pups 4 weeks old at the moment and the bitch is 7 years old and doesn't have as much milk as she would have done a few years back. The pups have been slurping mushy raw chicken since they were 3 weeks old and are growing like weeds.

[tango 221]

Youa re obviously doing a fantastic job with them to have kept them all.

 

Just to add my two pence worth: Personally I wouldn't go anywhere near cereal of any sort, except maybe the rice pudding if you really feel you must. I've not had the job of hand rearing completely like you, but I did have a bitch become ill with a virus once and dry up when the pups were 2 12 weeks old. I was giving them scraped raw chicken, just tiny pieces the size of my finger nail at that age: no problems with shits or upset stomachs at all, and by 3 weeks they were eating scraped lamb and chicken mush (warmed with a little bit of hot water so the whole lot was mushy and warm).

I've got a litter of terrier pups 4 weeks old at the moment and the bitch is 7 years old and doesn't have as much milk as she would have done a few years back. The pups have been slurping mushy raw chicken since they were 3 weeks old and are growing like weeds.

will head for the chicken latter in the week with them fella,i dont feed dried food to any of the dogs very often as im lucky enough have a an industrial mincer an a steady enough supply of chicken and turkey carcasses when they get on that they will go like weeds and then i will get some sleep . im goin to keep 2 dogs but my wee girl has asked to keep a bitch and as she has helped me feed the odd time i cant really not ,we"ll have to see never count your chickens and all that.thanks again everyone its great to be able to go on here and tap into the knowledge of so many THANKS AGAIN

[the_stig 6,614]

fat feckers keep up the good work

[johnnyboy28 1]

I use lambkin

its about £15 for 5kg and better than the puppy milk which is the same price for 1kg in pets at home

[tango 221]

need somemore ideas everyone .the little feckers are all doin well but now that there up an about they are stinkin the little feckers keep gettin covered in shit now matter how many times i clean them and the cage. i was thinkin of putting some lathe across the bottom of it and putting some really fine mesh panel over it but i was worring about them hurting their toes, any better ideas

[mart123blue 0]

Have just read this post for the first time. Had seen you advertise the pups and thought they looked a great litter. I don't have any decent advice, I think the idea with the mesh sounds better than them being covered in Sh*t, but someone hopefully will have an easier option.

 

Good luck sounds tough but in a couple of weeks hopefully a lot better.

 

p.s. Would another older bitch give them a bit of love now they are bigger, or am I being naive?

 

p.p.s. rip your bitch

[Guest smashygadge]

take them out of pen they need some bit of open ground floor where they can trot on

keep their blanket etc in a corner and keep changing newspaper get a ton of it you will need it thats a job in itself mate be easier than a cage etc

[skycat 6,174]

You need to put them in as big an area as possible: 5 foot by 5 foot wouldn't be too big. Cover the floor with newspaper several sheets thick. Make a bed area in one corner big enough to contain all the puppies comfortably, just with a plank on one side, and a low lip, like a batten on the other side, just high enough to stop their bedding coming out. VetBed is the best: liquid is absorbed straight away and goes through leaving the surface dry.

 

Puppies instinctively try and move a little way from where they sleep to pee and shit: first shitting away from the bed, peeing further away takes a little longer. The cleaner you keep their bed the more they will try and move away from it to empty themselves.

 

I've got terrier pups of 4 weeks old who are coming right out of their bed and into the run to crap and pee: they perfected the shitting away from the bed at 3 weeks old, although their mother is still with them and does still help to clear up after them.

 

The more regularly you change the bedding and newspaper the cleaner they will learn to become: helps a lot with house training and kennel training as they get older. If you confine them to one area where they are forced to pee and shit as well as sleep and play, it will be more difficult to get them clean at a later date.

 

Pick up shit the moment you notice it and change the bedding at least twice a day. VetBed washes and dries in minutes: best option. DON'T put mesh under their feet: will damage their toes.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Edited to add: a very large carboard box will do well at this age too. Bed at one end in a smaller cardboard box with one side cut right down to allow the pups to explore and move away from the bed: newspaper all over the rest of the floor of the box. If you can get a box about 2 by 4 foot that would do for a start, but try and get bigger if you can.