How Much Food For My New Puppy?

[aussielover]

My girl had no troubles finishing her meals from day 1. What a greedy guts!

[Archerlove]

Does she get treats in between meals?

If she does, you need to subract these from the meals.

I would give 1/2 a cup twice a day and then maybe some chicken necks/frames, an egg, or a chew ,or something in a kong etc at lunch time.

Does she look healthy, it is unusual for a lab to not finish a meal, no matter how big!

Chicken necks? At 9 weeks? Is that OK?

She looks wonderfully healthy and her eyes are bright and alert. Think I`ll just reduce a little as I want to avoid her gaining excess weight.

[Archerlove]

I would just feed her what she can finish if she's only 8 weeks old. James didn't eat his full recommended meals for nearly 2 weeks after being brought home. I was convinced I had a labrador with no food interest....I was wrong It just took him a while to settle in. I can't remember exactly but I'm sure we were getting 5-6 poos a day as well.

I wouldn't be concerned about her not finishing being due to overfeeding until you're sure that she's fully settled into her new environment and you can remove that as a cause.

If you're interested, James' diet was:

3/4 cup dry food, palmful of mince and splodge of cottage cheese/yoghurt for breakfast, chicken wing for lunch and 3/4 cup of food and mince for dinner. Until 16 weeks, at which point lunch was dropped. But as I said, he wasn't capable of eating the full amount for a week or two after coming home. Give her a bit of time yet.

We feel she is settled into her new home.We adore her and she is a happy little pup. Maybe we need to vary her diet a bit more adding the sugested chicken necs/wings/eggs etc.

Thank you all so much for sharing ideas.

[quickbrownfox]

Chicken necks? At 9 weeks? Is that OK?

I have an 8 week old Airedale terrier and he loves chicken necks. The most important thing is to mash the chicken neck first with a meat mallet so they can't choke on it.