Puppy not gaining weight,what shall I feed it?

after tellin my friend how good this site was. She asked me to see if anyone could give her any advice on which food is best for weight gain. her puppy is 14weeks been wormed to date and eats like a horse, but not gainning any weight. i thought it could be her useing all her food to grow as she is all legs at moment but she thinks not so any advice would be great.
thank you

Hi guys can someone help here, I dont know much about food for building up puppies, sure some of you do!

Is the pup on a large breed puppy food?
If so what brand?
You could tell your friend to try adding some tripe with the pups dinner, Tripe is good for adding weight

How many meals a day is the puppy on, the way to put weight on is a number of small meals
A rough guide to the number of meals is...
Age 4-12weeks = 7am / noon / 5pm/ 10pm
Age 3-6 months = 7am/ noon / 5pm
Age 6-12months = 7am/5pm
1 year onwards = One main meal and a snack or two main meals in the winter

Try giving him porridge/puppy milk/honey for breakfast...
and sardines in oil with his main meal

If feeding lots of food fails to put weight on, maybe check with the vet that there is no medical condition preventing the puppy from metabolising the food .

thank you russ.
have just rang her and luna(puppy) is on winalot puppy tins and a dry mixer. this is what breeder had her on. She has 3 meals aday.
she going to put her on a complete dry food for large breeds and get her some tripe.
any ideas which is best complete for her?

thank you minihaha she coming round later so she can look at what everyone has posted thank you all again

I'm a raw feeder so can't really advise on which complete foods are the best although there is alot of differences between brands so choose wisely.
Some being good some not so good and price doesn't always matter!
Here's a good link that should be read by all dog owners when choosing a food!

Petfood uncovered

A complete food would be better than tinned food, luna will porobably put weight on with the change alone.
The only pet food i feed mine (very rarely) is Naturediet, if i forget to get meat out the freezer

This is what I feed my dogs on when they were pups:

http://www.trophypetfoods.co.uk/products/premiumdog.htm

I think dry puppy food is ment to be high in the protein levels as it gives them the engery they need and then as a dog gets older you reduce the levels of protein in food as they need less (depending on activity levels) and would start putting on weight.

Think this right, please correct if wrong.

This is also good information if you are swapping from tin food to dry. Toby ate tin food when I got him as a puppy then when I changed him onto dry food his coat got shinner and he was less 'smelly'!

http://www.trophypetfoods.co.uk/hand...ding_guide.htm

Hope this is some help

Joanne

thanks Russ and jomcc will pass all info on.will have a good look myself to

Hi
I would say one thing.....DON'T TRY AND PUT WEIGHT ON A YOUNG DOG!!!! Feed a good quality diet at the appropriate quantities.
At 14 weeks age it will be starting to go through a leggy stage and putting on weight will only put stress on bones and joints.Weight and muscle will come with maturity!