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Tibetan Mastiff Calcium Supplementation Requires Care: A Few Points Breeders Should Know
Calcium supplementation is an issue that cannot be ignored. If you want your beloved mastiff to grow healthy and imposing, with a beautiful physique and strong, agile limbs, you must supplement calcium at the right time and in the right amount. The following suggestions are for reference only: When is calcium supplementation needed? For large dogs like the Tibetan Mastiff, the larger the breed, the faster it grows, and the greater its calcium requirement. For puppies, the calcium contained in ordinary puppy food can hardly meet their growth needs. If you feed your mastiff homemade food, then you should pay even more attention to supplementing calcium in a timely manner. In addition, if your mastiff has long been eating animal liver or has meat as its staple food, then it should also be given an appropriate amount of calcium supplementation. This is because such foods not only have a very low calcium content, but also contain high concentrations of vitamin A. Long-term intake of high concentrations of vitamin A by dogs can inhibit calcium absorption. Therefore, you should immediately stop the long-term habit of feeding liver and promptly supplement calcium for it. After a mastiff enters adulthood, if it is fed dog food, there is no need for separate calcium supplementation. This is because during this period, the growth and development of the dog's bones and other organs have basically stopped, and its calcium requirement is very small. If it is a stud dog or a female dog during pregnancy and lactation, it still needs a large amount of calcium supplementation, because semen, fetuses during the embryonic stage, and milk will all cause a large amount of calcium to be lost from the body. If it cannot be replenished in time, calcium from the body's calcium pool will be drawn upon, causing osteoporosis. How should calcium be supplemented for mastiffs? There is no obvious difference between the methods of calcium supplementation for dogs and for people. Generally speaking, calcium products for human use are also suitable for dogs. In addition, drinking more milk or eating some dairy products and cartilage foods in daily life, and reducing the intake of foods high in vitamin A such as liver, are also beneficial for calcium supplementation. If a mastiff has already shown symptoms of calcium deficiency, then medication should be used. It is recommended to choose relatively inexpensive calcium carbonate and calcium lactate while injecting vitamin D3 and orally taking vitamin D2 and vitamin D3. Of course, if conditions permit, you can also choose some imported-brand pet calcium products, because these products are relatively more professional. Methods for supplementing calcium for young mastiffs Some people believe that feeding all meat can make puppies grow strong, but this is actually the wrong approach. Eating only meat not only cannot make puppies strong, but instead, due to indigestion and difficulty absorbing it, can cause most puppies to develop diarrhea. Although meat contains a lot of protein, it has relatively little vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, and iodine. At the same time, meat has little calcium and much phosphorus. Long-term meat eating can easily cause an imbalance in the calcium-to-phosphorus ratio in puppies' bodies, resulting in skeletal disorders and making lameness likely. For large dogs, it is even more inadvisable to feed large amounts of meat too early, otherwise it may cause the front limbs to become bent. Puppies' feed should be supplemented with calcium powder and vitamins, which are necessary for the growth of teeth and bones. Especially for purebred dogs with larger frames, calcium is even more needed during the puppy stage. Usually, for growing puppies under one year old, the daily amount of calcium powder supplementation is about one teaspoon per 2 kg of body weight. As age increases, the amount of calcium powder and the dosage should be increased proportionally. After one year of age, because the puppy has entered maturity and the growth of teeth and bones has stabilized, the required amount of calcium powder is relatively reduced, and the dosage is about one teaspoon per 15 kg of body weight. However, there should be an appropriate amount of outdoor exercise every day, with exposure to ultraviolet rays, so as to facilitate calcium absorption.
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How to prevent diseases when raising chickens? These practical tips you should know
Adding grit to chicken feed works well. Adding about 3% grit to chicken feed has the following benefits: it can effectively improve the chicken's gizzard ability to grind feed; it can slow down the passage speed of food through the chicken's gastrointestinal tract; it can make digestive juices more easily enter the chyme,
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Basic knowledge of feeding and management for raccoon dog farming
I think many people are not familiar with the raccoon dog, but the name is probably heard often. We often hear people say that the fur on my clothes is raccoon dog fur, which shows that raccoon dog fur is very widely used in industry. Farming raccoon dogs
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Practical experience sharing on raising roe deer in a backyard
The roe deer, commonly known as the roe deer, is a ruminant of the deer family, and is distributed across the mountainous areas and grasslands of northern China. Roe deer are quick to react, lively in temperament, fond of living in groups, and timid and easily startled. Roe deer have no fat on their bodies and enjoy the reputation of "king of lean meat"; their meat is tender and delicious. Roe deer have a wide range of food sources
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Key Technical Points of Feeding and Management for Silkie Chicken Farming
The silkie chicken, also known as the silky fowl, five-clawed chicken, silkie chicken, and bamboo silkie chicken, is also called the Taihe chicken because it originated in Taihe County, Jiangxi, China. The silkie chicken is a traditional and precious Chinese medicinal material, renowned at home and abroad, and internationally praised as the "pearl among poultry." I. Biological Characteristics The silkie chicken belongs to the class Aves, order Galliformes
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How to prevent and treat emaciation disease in wild rabbits? Prevention and control measures that farmers must know
Young rabbits within 3 months of age are more prone to a kind of emaciation disease. Its symptoms are reduced appetite in the sick rabbits, dull or discolored hair coat, walking with an arched back, pale ocular conjunctiva, gradual emaciation, and finally death from exhaustion with skin clinging to bones. The sick rabbits that survive show stunted development and lose their breeding value
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How to effectively prevent vices in pheasant farming
Pheasant vices, also known as pecking vice, pica, depraved appetite, and mutual pecking vice, are a syndrome of abnormal taste caused by a deficiency of various nutrients and their metabolic disorders. It can occur in chickens of all ages and breeds, especially in chicks and growing chickens, particularly under intensive rearing
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Detailed Explanation of Key Points on Blue Peafowl Breeding and Incubation Techniques
The blue peafowl is commonly known as the phoenix, also called the king of a hundred birds, and is a rare game bird with a rich wild-game flavor. Li Shizhen, the sage of medicine, held the peafowl in very high regard. As recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": The peafowl wards off evil and can neutralize severe poisons, all manner of poisons, and drug toxins. To develop peafowl breeding, doing a good job of incubation is the key.
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Detailed Explanation of Key Techniques for Polyculture of Red Swamp Crayfish in Fish Ponds
Procambarus clarkii, also known as red swamp crayfish, has strong adaptability, grows rapidly, has delicious meat, and is rich in nutrients. Market demand is strong, and it is highly favored by farmers and consumers. In production practice, Procambarus clarkii is mostly polycultured, such as in adult fish ponds, fingerling ponds, and river
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Five Key Points You Must Master for Toad Farming
The toad is commonly known as the warty toad (lai ha ma). In recent years, as the ecological environment has deteriorated and wild resources have sharply declined, artificial toad farming has become imperative. The artificial farming method for toads is relatively simple; abandoned ponds and ditches, courtyard vegetable gardens, riverside flats or open fields can be used for rearing.
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