How to make puppy food mush?

Question

Hi everyone. I could use a little help here if you please. See my jack russel had puppies on Jan 24th of this year. The puppies are now 3 1/2 weeks old and they act like they aren't getting full anymore from just there mom. I had researched a little after they were born about when to start feeding them. This one article I read from this guy who breeds jack russels said three weeks old and he gave a reciepe for puppy mush. Well I thought that I had bookmarked this web page on the computer. Turned out that I didn't. So now I have no idea how to mix this stuff up for the puppies. And can't find the page?

So what I am asking from all you smart people out there is this do any of you know a reciepe for puppie mush? Or do any of you have any suggestions at all on what I should start feeding them? I'm new to this puppy stuff and this will be my dogs only litter. I just want to make sure that these puppies are happy, healthy and full until they go to there new homes. Please help me! Thanks!!

Answer 1

I got this from Dr. Foster & Smith.

Prepare the puppy mush by placing 2 cups of high quality dry puppy food in a blender with 12.5 oz liquid puppy milk replacer and fill the rest of the blender with hot water. This should be blenderized until the consistency of human infant cereal. (This feeds 6-8 puppies of a medium-sized breed.) The puppies should receive 3-4 meals a day of this to start. Once the puppies have checked it out, walked in it, and have eaten some, the dam can be allowed to finish it and clean the puppies off. Each week, increase the amount of food, decrease the amount of the milk replacer and water that is added, and the time of blenderizing, so by 7 weeks, the puppies are eating dry food.

Puppies eating dry foodOnce they are on dry food, it may be left in with the puppies (when the dam is out of the box) or the meal times can continue. As the puppies eat more solid food, the ***** may be let away from the puppies for an even longer period of time. By the time they are 6½-7 weeks, they should be fully weaned from the dam's milk, eating dry food, and drinking water.

If the weaning is not rushed, the ***** will naturally start decreasing milk production as the puppies increase their intake of solid food. As the puppies begin eating the puppy mush at 4 weeks of age, start changing the *****'s diet back to adult food to also help her decrease milk production. Start by replacing 1/4 of her puppy food with adult food. Keep increasing the adult food and decreasing the puppy food until by the 8th week postpartum, she is eating only adult food. During the last week of weaning, the dam's food consumption should be less than 50% above the maintenance levels and declining toward maintenance levels.

Answer 2

Mush Puppies

Answer 3

There are many formulas for making puppy mush. Some mix Gerber's rice cereal with evaporated milk. Any of the milk replacers mixed with baby cereal. (Esbilac, FirstBorn, Nutrience. Later softend puppy food and ground meat will be added. Never use regular cow's milk for the pups. Puppies can't digest cow's milk and will get the runs. If you are lucky enough to have it available, you can use goat's milk. It's even better than canned. Make sure you are using regular evaporated milk (like Carnation or Pet) and not condensed milk (like Eagle Brand Condensed Milk).

Answer 4

Just take your regular brand of dry puppy food, put it in a blender or food processor and grind it up fine. I usually grind a few cups at a time and store the ground up food in a tupperware type container. At each feeding, take out the amount you want to feed and add water. Let it soak for a few minutes before feeding. Add more water if needed to make a thin gruel. Over the next few weeks, gradually grind the food less and soak it less, until be 7 or 8 weeks the puppies are eating just moistened dry kibble.

Answer 5

Select a very high quality brand of puppy food that you are going to feed.
Since these guys are tiny you can put some of the kibble in a food processor dry and crush it up some. Mix it with wamr water and then server to the pups. Give them about 20 minutes with it and then pick it up. I would feed them about 4 times per day like this.
Once they get that down good you can just mmoisten up the puppy food and put it down and from there put down dry.
As they get teeth and can chew better put some down dry in a dis for them and just let them feed when ever they are hungry.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Puppy mush is nothing more than a good quality puppy food moistened with warm water to make the food soft and then you are able to break it up with a fork.
That's puppy mush!!

Answer 8

When it's time to begin weaning the pups and starting them on puppy food, you simply add some water to the food to soften it for the puppies. Over time, you gradually reduce the water added until they are able to eat the food without softening it.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Well If I were you I would 1. get wet food. 2. mush it stir it soften it. 3. give it to them. To tell the truth I hand feed my dog. Its a Lhasa. His name is Mattie