What To Feed My New Puppy?

[roo_rah]

I am picking up our new little JRT next week (he will be 8 weeks old then), and am preparing for his arrival!

I've been researching food for him, and we are thinking we would like to feed him 50% BARF Patties and 50% raw meaty bones, but just aren't sure how many bones make up the other 'half' of the patties.

If we worked out that we were to feed our puppy 150 grams of pattie, but wanted to do the 50%-50%, it would be 75 grams of pattie, but how much raw meaty bones to 'make up' the other 75 grams of pattie? (I'm thinking it wouldn't be simply 75 grams of raw meaty bones, or would it?).

This probably seems like a silly question, but this is our first puppy, and we want to make sure we are doing the right thing!

We were also thinking of using Eagle Pack Puppy dry for treats when training.

Also, is this 50% of each diet ok for him for his whole life?

I would really appreciate some help!

[wylie]

Hi Roorah and welcome

For a start your new puppy should come home with a diet sheet from the breeders. I would follow that for a while and then start to swap over to a barf diet.

Chicken necks and small lamb riblets should be fine to start your new JRT when you get going as the bone part of there diet.

Good Luck

[Cockerlover]

AS HAS BEEN SAID B4 YOUR PUPPY SHOULD COME WITH A DIET GUIDE WHATEVER HE HAS BEEN BOUGHT UP ON YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE & GRADUALLY INTRODUCE THE DIET YOU WANT FOR HIM ;; DO NOT SUDDENLY CHANGE AS THIS CAN CAUSE UPSETSGOOD LUCK WITH YOUR NEW BABY

[jillybean]

As the others have already said, check what your puppy is currently being fed at the breeder and continue to feed that at least for the first week whilst your pup settles in. Moving to a new home away from mum and litter mates is stressful enough for your pup without changing his diet at the same time. After that you can slowly start to introduce his new diet by combining a small amount of whatever you choose to feed him with his old food over the period of at least a week until he is eventually on his new diet.

You might find it easier to feed Eagle Pack puppy kibble along with the bones and BARF patties because feeding BARF alone requires abit of research and often needs supplements.

In regards to treats - kibble makes a pretty boring treat, plus it's hard so it takes longer for your pup to chew. Soft treats and things that smell lots usually make better treats because they're easier for your pup to eat quickly during training and are something different to their usual food.

Have a read of the health/nutrition/grooming forum, there's PLENTY of talk about different foods and diets!