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Grow Your Pups with Bones
By Dr Ian Billinghurst (AUS, 1998, Paperback)
This is the second in a series of books that deal with feeding companion animals for maximum health.
It is the breeders and puppy owners supplement to ‘Give Your Dog a Bone’
The mission of “Grow Your Pups With Bones" is firstly, to show dog breeders how easy it is to produce healthy pups without the problems so many breeders experience.
Secondly it aims to show how easy it is to grow those pups into healthy adults with a sound skeletal system.
"Grow Your Pups with Bones" is divided into three parts.
The first part introduces the Bones And Raw Food (‘ BARF’) diet for feeding dogs. The BARF diet is a simplified and more prescriptive version of the diet outlined in ‘Give Your Dog a Bone’.
It is the basis of the dietary guidelines outlined in the remainder of the book.
The subjects covered include:
- What is a BARF Diet?
- Is the BARF diet suitable for growing and breeding dogs?
- What are the nutrients that support growth?
- What you will need to produce the BARF diet?
The second part deals with feeding for breeding. The BARF diet is central to this healthy pup-producing program. The subjects covered include:
- Basic nutrition for him her and the kids diet?
- Before breeding you must start with healthy dogs
- Breeding secrets - believe some, ignore others.
- What do we feed her during pregnancy?
- The whelping box
- Eclampsia or milk fever
- Feeding the lactating bitch
- Weaning the puppies
- Orphan puppy care
The third part is about growing pups into healthy adults without producing bone problems such as Hip or Elbow Dysplasia. Once again the BARF diet plays a central role. The subjects covered include all the common and many of the not so common bone problems that may be seen in young dogs by breeders and owners.
The basic theme of this book – the BARF diet – is that dogs are far healthier, reproduce better and grow straighter without bone problems if fed their biologically appropriate diet based on raw meaty bones.
