20 days after the mother Tibetan Mastiff gave birth, why didn't the baby Tibetan Mastiff feed on milk when it was born? What would be the impact? It would also cause malnutrition and affect growth and development. In addition to malnutrition, what are its feeding methods? Let's learn together!

Why doesn't the little Tibetan Mastiff feed?

1. Generally speaking, if the newborn baby Tibetan Mastiff does not eat breast milk, and the mother does not have a particularly strong desire to feed, it may be that the baby Tibetan Mastiff has a very serious congenital defect or disease.

2. The amount of breast milk gradually decreases. After 15 days of age, breast milk cannot meet its needs.

3. If it is a small Tibetan mastiff, it can be artificially fed if necessary. Feeding, it is of course better to use a small syringe or other tool to remove the needle to feed the small Tibetan Mastiff pets milk powder or infant formula milk powder for human use, and the expressed mother's milk. It is not recommended to feed milk directly. There are ingredients that small Tibetan mastiffs can't eat, which can easily cause diarrhea, and don't feed milk-containing beverages with low nutrition and high additives.

4. The stomach and intestines have the ability to digest and absorb 5 hours after birth. Therefore, the small Tibetan Mastiff must eat colostrum within 12 to 48 hours after birth, preferably 6 hours after birth. Eat colostrum. Small Tibetan Mastiffs who can't eat milk should be artificially assisted to fix the teat, or artificially fed.

Feeding methods of Tibetan Mastiff puppies:

1. Feeding and weaning of small Tibetan Mastiffs

Under normal circumstances, a litter of small Tibetan Mastiffs is breast-fed from a bitch to 3-5 weeks of age, after 3 weeks of age, a dish can be used to hold some milk or breast milk to let the little Tibetan mastiff learn to lick food from the dish to supplement nutrition, so as to avoid nutritional deficiencies and hinder development and reduce the burden of the bitch.

2. Feeding the small Tibetan Mastiff at three weeks of age

1) When the small Tibetan Mastiff is about to reach the age of three weeks, it can start to be given food for teaching troughs, and commercial teaching trough materials are used according to the instructions. It can also be prepared by yourself. The method is to add milk and baby cereals and mix them into a plate. Bring the small Tibetan Mastiff to the plate and put some of it in the mouth of the puppy with your fingers. Twice a day, the small Tibetan Mastiff will eat by itself. When giving the puppies, in some cases, the bitch must be taken away to prevent the bitch from interfering with the feeding of the puppies.

2) When the small Tibetan Mastiff is used to eating from the plate, the feeding amount can be gradually increased and increased to three or four times a day, and then meat food can be given. If fresh meat is given, due to the lack of calcium in the meat, some bone meal needs to be added to maintain nutritional balance. Use various brands of canned puppy food in rotation. Canned meat for adult dogs is also better than fresh meat, but you still need to add some bone meal.

3) The small Tibetan Mastiff grows rapidly and needs to be fed several times a day more than the adult dog. Follow the above steps for weaning, and the 6-week-old Tibetan Mastiff no longer needs the bitch to breastfeed.

3. Feeding of developing Tibetan Mastiffs

When small Tibetan Mastiffs reach 12 weeks of age, they will be fed 3 times a day until they are 6 months old, and then they will be fed twice a day. Meals until 9 months of age, after which one or two meals a day can be maintained depending on the individual or the environment. Generally speaking, it is advisable to eat two meals a day.

Precautions for feeding Tibetan Mastiff puppies:

1. Small Tibetan Mastiffs aged 30 to 90 are generally weaned at 30 to 45 days old. The little Tibetan Mastiff transitioned from relying on breast milk to living independently, which is an important turning point in its life and faces the test of adapting to the new environment. The small Tibetan Mastiff is in a period of vigorous growth and development, but its digestive function and resistance have not yet fully developed. Therefore, special feeding and management are required at this time, otherwise the growth and development will be hindered, and it is very easy to get sick and die.

2. Feeding of 30-60 day old Tibetan Mastiff: Although the young milk that has just been weaned can eat by itself, in order to gradually adapt to its gastrointestinal function, the feed can be made into dilute for a period of time at the beginning. The porridge is fed, and as the age increases, the feed can be thickened to make dry rice. At this time, the feed should be mainly energy feed corn, rice, rice bran, wheat bran, etc., and appropriately increase protein feed: meat, animal offal, bone meal, meal scraps, etc. and fed with feed additives. Feed should be cooked, but not burnt or raw. Young Tibetan Mastiffs in this age group are fed 4 meals a day.

3. Feeding of 60-90-day-old Tibetan Mastiffs: For Tibetan Mastiffs at this stage, fat feed should be added, and the internal organs of livestock and poultry should be slaughtered to facilitate fattening. Its daily food intake can be calculated according to 2% to 2.5% of its body weight, and it is fed 3 meals a day.

Have you all understood the relevant knowledge about why the little Tibetan mastiff doesn't feed on milk when it was just born? All the owners must read the above content in order to better raise the little Tibetan mastiff.