I have a 5 week old litter which has been nibbling solids since 3 weeks. I feed raw so this was mince. Mum began to get restless with the feeding and as they were not eating much of the solids I began to allow her to not feed them thinking this would make them hungry. She feeds them at supper, I offer breakfast at 6am, they eat a small amount, not what you would think a meal then just leave it. Mum then goes in and they eat loads! Nothing then from mum and at lunch I offer meat and goats milk, again they only eat the smallest amount. Tea they eat the smallest amount then feed from mum, supper if i am lucky they will eat a dribble then mum. Mum is reluctant to feed them for more than a minute and that is why I would like them to eat more solid. I have tried tinned and baby food, no difference. TBH I can see give it another week and mum will want to feed them less! Any ideas guys?

Best would be to tell you what we did with our puppies.   We'd start, by the end of week 3 going into week 4, and depending on how the litter was doing, and the number of puppies, offering them a drink of warmed goats milk taking each on my lap to get them used to the idea of lapping.  We'd do this 4 times a day.   At the same time, we'd give them each a small ball of lean raw mince, enough to cover a thumbnail only, once a day.  The temptation was to give more because they went nuts for it.   After they could all lap, we added a good quality puppy food, mixed with either warm water, or the warm goats milk, mixed into a porridge consistency, and as with lapping, held each puppy to make sure they could eat up.   By this time their milk teeth were coming through and as time went on, mum didn't want in there for long - ouch!!    Once they could all get into the porridge mix, we filled the round puppy feeding dishes, one or two depending on the numbers, and fed them 4 times a day with mum completely out until they'd finished at which point she was let back in with them to clean up and allow what was by the end of week 4, 'comfort suckling', standing up.   Once she felt their sharp teeth, she wanted out - fast.   We found feeding them the porridge mix to begin with, meant they didn't need to drain mum, and her supply gradually dried up.  As we gave less water/goats milk, we added lean mince, cottage cheese, scrambled egg (not all in the same meal!).   And as our breed should have good bone, we gave them a drink of goats milk mid-morning, mid afternoon and last thing, as needed.   Again this avoided them calling on mum other than, as said, for comfort suckling.   Mum was off the litter by week 6.   We kept our litters to week 10 unless we had a big litter when provided we knew the new owners were experienced, we'd let some go by 8 weeks to give them more one-on-one handling.

I have never done 'raw feeding' (other than the raw mince) but used a good quality puppy food, one listing meat as the main ingredient.

I think some litters wean faster and easier than others.  I also think that mum will help you a lot, because they will get 'naturally' weaned when she decides enough's enough(!) - I'd give it another week!!

They are 7 weeks old now and eating well. Mum has decided to not feed them anymore! They are doing great and happy as can be x