Hi
I have a 7 week old Border terrier named Willy, He weighs 81 oz. After a visit to the vet and a course of antibiotics for bowel trouble, the vet recommended he be given boiled chicken for a few days, how much should I be feeding him.
The first time he had it he ate about 3 oz and now he won't settle, i guess it was too much. Any help would be much appreciated.
James

HI, Poor Willy - you should give plain boiled rice along with the chicken. I would gently boil a couple of chicken joints for about 25 minutes and cook about 1 1/2 mugs(dry) rice too. You can cook them togther in the same saucepan. No seasoning in either. De bone really carefully and chop up the chicken very small and give I level tablespoon of chicken to 2 tablespoons of rice mixed up well for a meal to start with. You can put a little of the chicken broth on the food. If he stays on this diet for more than a week you should add a high quality vit/min supplement. As he has been on antibiotics I would put a heaped teaspoon of live natural yoghurt on top of each meal - feed him 4 times a day at roughly 4 hour intervals. Aim to slightly underfeed rather than try to stuff him for a week or so, to give his tummy a rest/ He will catch up later dont worry. How old was he when you got him? was he fully weaned do you know and what did the breeder feed him on?
Has he been wormed yet? Please come back and say how its going.

Hi
Thanks for the advice, we kept him on that diet for 4 days. He's back on complete puppy food now. He's 8 weeks old now and growing by the hour, he's in a leggy stage at the moment and keeps running into things because he knows he can outrun us but he forgets to stop.

Great to hear he is feeling better. :-)