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Topic Dog Boards / Breeding / weighing puppies
- By Wizzy Izzy [gb] Date 19.12.07 17:00 UTC
How ofton do you all weight you puppies from birth - ?
every day for the first week? then weekly?
- By marguerite [gb] Date 19.12.07 17:21 UTC
I weigh every day for 2 wks just to make sure they are all feeding o.k. and putting on weight, sometimes a smaller pup cannot suckle as good as an bigger one and thats the only way you can tell.  Then fornightly if they are all doing o.k. once they start to be weaned I dont bother after that.
- By Sam-Jo [gb] Date 19.12.07 17:31 UTC
I weighed ever day for 4 weeks :eek:, I think I might have been a bit addicted too it!  I did have one very small pup though! so I had to keep an eye on her :-) .
- By bazb [gb] Date 19.12.07 18:51 UTC
We never bother to weigh.
- By Brainless [gb] Date 19.12.07 20:57 UTC
Surely you need to weigh them at least twice for working out the amount of wormer to use?
- By Carrington Date 19.12.07 20:05 UTC
I weigh at birth, then I handle the pups for a few seconds a few times every day whilst changing bedding, I make sure that they are nice and tubby and their weights feel good in my hand.

Unless I feel that a pup is not as heavy as it should be I don't weigh again until 2 weeks for first worming, then they are weighed again every 2 weeks for worming.

Personally I don't feel you need to weigh your pups constantly, if you handle the pups daily even for a little you can soon tell if they are not as they should be. ;-)
- By Fillis Date 19.12.07 20:55 UTC
I weigh every day for about 4 weeks - any not gaining as much as the others are then put on the back teats to catch up. Then when they start to wean at about 3 weeks I can check they are still gaining. I always think apart from the info for me, it does the puppies good to be handled from day 1.
- By Brainless [gb] Date 19.12.07 20:56 UTC
daily for the first 10 days or so then every few days and every week until they go.  I ahve noticed weights can vary quite widely but by 12 weeks they all seem to level out.
- By RRfriend [se] Date 19.12.07 21:59 UTC
Same as Brainless here.
I'm not weighing for the sake of the pups being handled, they get plenty of that anyway from me :p
Weighing will soon show if a pup is starting to fall behind.
Besides, I like looking at old charts ( I save them ) and compare litters, weighing on the first day of each week will make comparison possible.
Karen
- By JeanSW Date 19.12.07 23:53 UTC
Daily for first 2 weeks, then perhaps twice a week.  Obviously weighed for working out wormer doses too.  I wouldn't be happy just handling them, I need to know they are gaining steadily. 
- By jackson [gb] Date 20.12.07 11:44 UTC
I weighed mine every day for 3 weeks, then they wouldn't fit on my scales. I took them to my vet to be weighed for their 4 and 6 week wormer, which meant they also had trips out in the car too.

I do think even if they are handled, the weighing is an important part of handling, as it is teaching them to have something 'done' to them. I probably didn't need to weight them as often, or for as long, but it reassured me.
- By Fillis Date 20.12.07 13:12 UTC
As mine do from me, but it is extra handling, different from cuddles etc.:cool:
- By LucyDogs [gb] Date 20.12.07 17:58 UTC
I got a sheet for recording weights in with my whelping kit off Ebay, and it had every day for 2 weeks, then every week, so that's what we're doing! :-) Also plenty of cuddles, checking ears, trimming nails, starting to do all the fiddly stuff spaniels will have to get used to!
Topic Dog Boards / Breeding / weighing puppies

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