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Rickets in puppies

can anybody help with any remodies to straighten up a 5 mon. old pup with rickets? any info would be greatly appreciated thank you. Bill

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Cod liver oil, teaspoon a day per pup within a week or two you will see dramatic results.

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any vitamin D like milk from farm

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I had one with this once. The vet said that the concrete kennel was causing the problem. We moved the pup to grass and gave calcium pills for about 2 or 3 weeks. Pup turned out fine and we have raised pups since on concrete and never had any problems. So I don't know if the kennel was the cause or not.

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Pet tabs from vet ... will straighten them right up...

Puppies with "rickets" usually grow out of it--- as long as you have them on a GOOD quality large breed puppy food.

Rickets

I've always had good luck with Cod Liver Oil and powdered goat milk.

Rickets...

... is a Vitamin D deficiency. We get Vit D from the SUN during certain times of year and from some foods(and supplements) like COD LIVER OIL. If you don't have enough Vit. D it effects your ability to absorb calcium and makes for weak bones. It is really kind of painful... as I found out a couple years ago... when I got seriously ill with a Vit D deficiency and the adult human form of Rickets! It is real easy to fix though by using cod liver oil or whatever form of vit. D the vet gives you. You can't JUST give Calcium since the body can't absorb it without the correct levels of Vit D.
Good luck, lots of pups get it and get over it totally!
HappyHunting Heather

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Had a pup that looked like it had rickets, took it to the vet and he said get it on a crappy dog food for a little while and it will straighten out. I did and the pup got right as rain. It may not be rickets, but a reaction from to high a protein dog food. This pup was outside in sun light, so it wasn't a vitamin problem. It was the dog food I was feeding it. Fed it Dad's Econ o mets for about 3 weeks and the pup out grew the bowed out legs.

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Originally posted by ravenrock
Pet tabs from vet ... will straighten them right up...

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Just curious, what are you feeding?

I have had two pups get ricket, I gave them some calcium tablets and they straightened right up.

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BEEN FEEDING THE PUP THE CHEAPEST DOG FOOD WE CAN FIND AND HAD IT ON VITAMINS HIGH IN CALCIUM WITH NO RESULT. TALKED TO A VET TECH SHE SUGGESTED PET TABS PLUS, THAT IT IS A CALCIUM AND PHOSPHOURS DEFICANCE. I WILL PICK SOME UP. THANKS TO ALL FOR THE INFO... BILL

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HOME OF THE TRASHY DOGS
NITECH. GRCH. 'PR' BILL'S TRASHY BLUE FLAME
GR.NT.CH. 'PR' JAMIE & BILL'S TRASHY AMOS 2011 PERFORMANCE SIRE S.S. STAKE SIRE
'PR' SKYLARS TRASHY LITTLE MOLLIE CO OWNED WITH SKYLAR LIVENGOOD
'PR' BILL'S TRASHY RED VOODOO

Hopefully the Pet Tabs will work for them.

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