Someone I know has a litter of 4 week old puppies.  One of them is not doing well at all - not putting on weight and is about half the weight of the rest of the litter.  I know I have read on here in the past about feeding with beef broth, but I can't find the posts - can anyone help please?

im really not going to be much help here just wanted to say i hope this pup gets better soon and i think i would be camped out at the vets with him/her  at this point

This is one from a search I have just done :-
http://www.wolfweb.com.au/acd/fadingpupsyn.html
Hope that helps :)
But this ons is probably what you are thinking of :-
http://www.champdogsforum.co.uk/board/topic/39665.html

Lea :)

Thanks guys - the vets have thoroughly checked the pup and there is nothing obvious.  Thanks for the links Lea.  I know there was one from a few years back where someone recommended boiling up beef (I think) to make a broth and that this had worked really well.  Can anyone remember?  I know that a very nice labrador person had helped but I can't remember her name so can't do a search - also I can't seem to search over 180 days.

I think all posts past 180 days are deleted. so we can no longer search for them :(
I hope you manage to find out ASAP.
The only lab lady I can think of at the moment is KayC if that name rings a bell :)
Lea :)

I knew it began with a 'K'!  Not much good if I can't search over 180 days though!  Thanks for trying Lea.

http://www.champdogsforum.co.uk/cgi-bin/board/topic_show.pl?tid=69147
Dah DAHHHHHHH I do believe I have found it :D :D :D
Lea :)

P.S, I put fading puppy syndrome KayC into the Google site search at the bottom of the page and it came up as the first post.
Soooooooooo you cant search past 180 days on the CD Search, but you can on the google Search.
I hope it works :)
Lea :)

Thanks so much Lea!! :) That was brilliant of you to find it!

I've made the phone call with the info so now it's down to them!

Best wishes

Jan

Thats ok, I am normally USELESS finding anything. But luckily tonight I had my brain in!!!!
I hope your friends puppies improve with it :)
Lea :)

HI Jan... hope things are looking a bit better for the pup... I have only just logged on and got your e-mail.. a little late... but I see everyone else has rallied to help :-)  Thanks for finding the thread Lea

fingers crossed for the pups...

Kay

Some people have a lot of success with fading puppy by feeding small quantities of liver to the bitch.  In this way the essential elements from the liver will go into the milk and will start to put things back on the go again.  Also feeding the water from the boiling of the liver to the puppy.

Check out this link http://users.zoominternet.net/~randalet/fade.htm

I have heard that it works wonders

4 weeks though would not be fading puppy syndrome and the pups would be on solids by now so feeding little and often is the only thing to do.  the pup may have some congenital defect preventing it from developing properly, often these things don't come to light until they have to cope with changes such as going onto a more varied diet.

I agree.  We had a beautiful hand reared puppy who got to 6 weeks and still weighed only 1 kg we took her down the vets and she had blood tests and had chronic renal failure.  It broke my heart.   On the other hand the grandmother to this puppy was half the size of the rest of the litter, hand fed and has grown into one of the most substantial dogs you could see.

Thanks everyone.  Heard this morning that the pup has put on weight! :)

Thats brilliant news :)
Keeping fingers crossed the pup will go from strength to strength :) :)
Lea :)