Generally, milk is enough for dogs after giving birth, unless they are puppies or bitches who have given birth to many puppies. Generally, a puppy will sleep quietly after nursing, urinate after 30-50 minutes, and then go to bed. When there is not enough milk, the puppy will be particularly upset and keep sucking its mother's nipple. The bitch will leave the kennel by herself, regardless of the puppy.

Second, what should I do if my mother has insufficient milk?

(1) Start with the bitch: breast-feed the dog mother.

There are many reasons for the lack of milk for dog mothers, which may be genetic or caused by insufficient nutrition during breastfeeding. At this time, we can make some complementary food for the dog mother to promote the lactation of the dog mother:

1, chicken soup, chicken feet, soybean soup

2, pig's trotters peanut soup: put peanuts and pig's trotters in a pressure cooker, add water and steam. No seasoning, you can put a little salt, and it is best not to put salt.

3, other prolactin soups: sheep ribs soup, crucian carp soup can be milked, lecithin particles and papaya powder also have the effect of milking.

4, Chinese medicine prolactin: In addition, you can go to the pharmacy to buy a kind of Chinese medicine called Cao Tong, put about 10 at a time, and cook it with pig's trotters or crucian carp.

5. Precautions:

Pig's trotters, chicken and lamb chops should not be eaten too much for dog mothers. They are greasy and mainly drink soup. And don't drink too much soup, or there will be too much oil in the milk, which will also affect the digestive system of puppies. Don't let the dog mother eat pig liver during the feeding period. Pig liver has the function of collecting milk.

6, calcium lactation method:

If you don't have time to cook soup, you can give your dog instant calcium vitamins, which contain a variety of calcium, 8 vitamins and 12 trace elements, which can promote the dog to secrete milk.

(2), from the puppy:

When the mother's milk is insufficient but lactation is unsuccessful, artificial feeding can be used. There are many such methods:

1, the method of replacing milk with goat milk

If the puppy is too young to eat, you can get some goat milk or something, or you can buy infant milk powder or dog milk powder. For example, you can feed it with a needle or a bottle.

If you feed people milk and powdered milk, you must skim it. Lactose and other ingredients in milk are irritating to the intestines and stomach of dogs, not to mention newborn puppies, so you must buy skim milk or skim milk powder. However, whether it is milk powder or skim milk, once you feed the puppy with diarrhea, you must stop feeding it and then feed it with special dog milk powder. This is very important!

2. Needle insertion method

For a very young dog, you can use a syringe without a needle to inhale the prepared pet milk powder into the needle tube, pick up the puppy, drop the milk into its mouth and let it eat to ensure healthy growth.

3, bottle feeding method

After a few days, the puppy's mouth can contain nipples without needles. When feeding, the owner first picks up the puppy and touches the dog's mouth with the nipple of the small bottle to stimulate it to suck milk automatically. Usually feed every two hours. After feeding, the spilled milk in the puppy's mouth is wiped clean, and the anus and genitals of the puppy are cleaned with warm cotton wool, imitating the action of the bitch licking with her tongue.

4. Preventive measures

Remember to pat the puppy on the back and let him burp after feeding to avoid flatulence. For slow-growing puppies, the amount and frequency of feeding can be appropriately increased.

During artificial lactation, special attention should be paid to the warmth and coldness of puppies. Within 1 week after the puppy is born, the ambient temperature directly affects the puppy's body temperature, and the house temperature should be kept at 30℃ ~ 32℃. After 4 weeks of birth, the ambient temperature can gradually drop to about 24℃. Find a bitch instead of breastfeeding

If the mother's milk is insufficient, she can find a bitch with sufficient milk instead of breastfeeding. It should be noted that puppies don't necessarily accept nursing bitches, and bitches' milk and urine can be coated on puppies to make them familiar!

Feed goat milk powder

If breast milk is not enough, you can use goat milk powder instead. A small amount of goat milk powder can be washed with warm water and fed with a syringe, a few milliliters at a time.

Bitch breastfeeding

Bitch's milk is not enough, you can give it instant calcium and vitamins, and the effect is quite good!