Nursing-Whelping Suppliments

[fulcount]

Unless you have had a history of bad milk I wouldn't fool with Mother
nature
A really good hi quality food is usually all that we need to produce puppies
with no imaginary problems with the Female
If you THINK you need to use something always go by the directions by the
maker of the product
John O

[Pike Ridge Beagles]

I agree. I am not going to use the Milkade I just purchased unless the pups would have issue nursing this go around. My bitch produced plenty of milk on her first litter of 9 pups so why full around with mother nature.

[Keystone Kid]

I agree. I am not going to use the Milkade I just purchased unless the pups would have issue nursing this go around. My bitch produced plenty of milk on her first litter of 9 pups so why full around with mother nature.

I don't think Milkade is made to increase the milk in the mother. I think it helps prevent "milk poisoning/milk fever”.

[Pike Ridge Beagles]

I agree. I am not going to use the Milkade I just purchased unless the pups would have issue nursing this go around. My bitch produced plenty of milk on her first litter of 9 pups so why full around with mother nature.

I don't think Milkade is made to increase the milk in the mother. I think it helps prevent "milk poisoning/milk fever”.

That's what I thought too but after reading this thread it has raised more questions than it has answered and now I feel somewhat reluctant to give anything but quality dog food to my bitch. The article posted above actually is a little contradictory and confusing. i think Leah is traveling with Uno this week so maybe she can explain it a little when she returns.

[Larry G]

I have asked about this product and never got a good answer, probably because it is hard to say if it really works or not. Here is what the mfg. say:

***Proven on females that had never raised a pup due to poisonous acidity or their lack of milk, that other alkalies and mineral-vitamin supplements did not correct.

Ingredients: Sodium Acetate, Potassium Citrate, Calcium Gluconate, Lactose and Thiamine Hydrochloride.***


First three are slightly alkaline buffering agents (salts), then lactose is milk sugar and the last is a vitamin supplement. It is well known that the calcium:phosphorous ratio in the dog is critical. As you can see, no phosphorous in Milkade. I copied this off a vet's page:

2. If you think you must add some sort of supplement use only small amounts of a balanced source of calcium, phosphorus, and Vitamin D to the bitch's diet beginning about mid-term. Milk makes a good "supplement" as long as the lactose does not create loose stool. DO NOT add calcium alone!! It MUST be used with phosphorus and Vitamin D. Remember that optimum ratio of calcium to phosphorus of 1.2 to 1.

Saw on a dog site that a nursing beagle would need to produce about a quart of milk a day for an average litter. Makes you wonder how dogs and wolves in the wild survive.