Puppy on raw,advice needed

[vikky]

We get our pup on friday from the breeder woohoo we cant wait

He was weaned striaght onto a raw diet of minced beef tripe, and chudleys dry puppy food as a top up,the parents are fed a completely raw diet too,so we were very lucky,of course we have picked the breeders brains with regards to how we should proceed with our pup and his food regime,but that it just one opinion and we would like more.
He will be 8 weeks old when we colect him,and he is currenlty on 1lb of mince and i think she said about 100g of dry food per day

we have a fully stocked freezer of minced beef tripe and minced chicken,chicken wings,trotters,marrow bones ect

when will it be ok to start giving him wings/bones/trotters ect?? and if you hada 8 week old pup weaned onto raw mince how would you proceed and when would you stop giving the complete,the breeder advised us to keep giving the dry upto a year of age,what do you guys think??

[wildmoor]

Zandi was fed on Pro-Plan by his breeder and I swapped him from that to raw over 3 days replacing one meal at a time with 450grm mince - different types from chicken with liver to tripe to rabbit etc
I personally wouldn't give meat on the bone until they can eat it in one sitting especially chicken wings - the pup is normally 4mths and then i scald the skin.
I dont like to risk a young pup with bacteria/protozoa on the skin, you see some pups with manky fly blown wings scattered about to me not worth the risk so its either preprepared mince with ground bone in it or steak chunks. I used to give them dog cakes to chew on, bought by the box from laughing dog

[Heather]

My dog wasn't weaned onto raw, so I can't advise on a tiny pup and raw ,but just wanted to say that at 4 months Kira was eating a completely raw diet with no dry.

Good luck when you get your pup!

[Stuart]

The raw food is fine,.. but I not in agreement with the `dry food to top up`,.. [ are you mixing raw and dry in one meal? ] you can mix feeding providing one meal is dry and one meal is raw,..they digest at different at a different pace, if they mix, then it may cause upset stomachs,.. I feed a raw meal in the morning and a dry in the afternoon,.. the dry has digested [ about 10 hrs ] before the raw is fed in the morning [ digested in about 5 hrs ]

My Boys have been raw fed since they were 4 months old
Before that they were on Orijen.
I get my pup in approx 8 weeks and will do eactly the same
I agree with Stuart the raw and dry should not be mixed

[vikky]

thanks everyone,he is fed his 3 meals of raw,then last meal of the night is his dry complete they arent mixed in the same bowl

[Caryll]

Originally Posted by wildmoor

Zandi was fed on Pro-Plan by his breeder and I swapped him from that to raw over 3 days replacing one meal at a time with 450grm mince - different types from chicken with liver to tripe to rabbit etc
I personally wouldn't give meat on the bone until they can eat it in one sitting especially chicken wings - the pup is normally 4mths and then i scald the skin.
I dont like to risk a young pup with bacteria/protozoa on the skin, you see some pups with manky fly blown wings scattered about to me not worth the risk so its either preprepared mince with ground bone in it or steak chunks. I used to give them dog cakes to chew on, bought by the box from laughing dog

Excellent advice. I wouldn't give large bones to young pups. In fact I didn't give Dempsey bones until he started teething and even then it was lamb spines/ribs as they are reasonably soft & digestible. I can't advise on chicken wings because Dempsey is chicken intolerant so I've never fed them.

I don't ever give him marrow bones, simply because they are too ricj for him, same with trotters.

[wildmoor]

these are the hard biscuits
Laughing Dog

gave him some thing to chew on and would last him ages