Cod Liver Oil And Flaxseed Oil

[trishalouise]

Hi there!

I am looking for some advice about how much of these oils to give to my dogs. We are doing the BARF thing and am trying to learn as much as possible. I have "Give your dog a bone" and "The BARF diet" books but am just wanting a simple dose / kg (if there is such a thing!). I have a 33kg Greyhound and a 7kg 7 month old Mini Poodle pup.

Thanks in advance.

Trish

[Bully]

I give Pele, my Bull Terrier half the human dose (she's 29kg), as she's about half my weight.

I'd proportion it in relation to a human dose.

[malsam]

cod liver is on the high side of Vit A. Be careful to remove other sources of Vit A in your other food. Else you risk high dosage of Vit A which will damage the liver.

For flax oil, a lot of us uses to bowel tolerance level. Start from 5ml and move up either by 2.5ml or 1ml. Once they have soft stool, you know its too much. Then you back track to the next higher dosage.

Having said that, in order to optimise your food nutritional sources, try to varies your sources of flax with salmon oil and other Omega 3 oils as well. Many people remember to give variety to their meat and veggi but forgotten to do it for the oils totally.

Those books you have are great as foundation textbooks. For further updates and reference, you need other books or get suggestions from good internet sources.

[Daggles]

I give my 39kg GSD 5 ml of flaxseed oil as that is all he can tolerate. I swap that with salmon/fish oil every time I empty the bottle.

[Quickasyoucan]

I was searching for dosage of cod liver oil and found this thread.

Can anyone tell me what the correct dosage would be. Is it something that shoulld only be given occasionally (due to Vitamin A content)?

What other foods are sources of Vitamin A - which might push the vitamin A too high!