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Rickets (Help)

Got a pup with rickets had him to vet and been on calcium up pill for a couple weeks. One day he looks almost normal then a day or 2 later looks bad again. Fixing to switch to large breed pup food. Any suggestions on which brand people have had success get pup over rickets with? What about cod oil, vitamin D pill or calcium?

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Nathan Phenix
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Put him on the cheapest sorriest feed u can get hold of..... Sunshine and exercise

rickets

Hill's Science Diet for Large breed or Small breed which ever size he will be that feed has worked for me twice recommended by my vet Good Luck!

Put some cod liver oil on their feed every day

Hills Science Diet, Calcium pill 2X day, and cod liver oil fixed mine. Getting some sunlight sure does not hurt anything.

Cod liver oil and calcium pill twice daily fixed one for me as well.

Cut back on feeding and use lower protein feed and use cod liver oil every day.
Usually the cause is their body growing faster than their bones and ligaments. Cutting feed amounts and lower protein feed will almost always fix this. Cod liver oil will help.

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Turk Ramsey
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Put him where he gets more sunlight and the calcium.

dark corn syrup mixed in feed, seen Bert Oney do this years ago and straighten right up

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Nothing. It will fix itself.

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The man that told you the cheapest dog food is exactly right that will fix it.

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Cheap food, adult dog food or large breed formula is a must for coonhounds in my opinion. They need time to grow a strong skeleton before packing on weight. The other things than can help are lots of sunshine and lots of vigorous exercise.

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Re: Rickets (Help)

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Originally posted by Nathan Phenix
Got a pup with rickets had him to vet and been on calcium up pill for a couple weeks. One day he looks almost normal then a day or 2 later looks bad again. Fixing to switch to large breed pup food. Any suggestions on which brand people have had success get pup over rickets with? What about cod oil, vitamin D pill or calcium?

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Rickets

Calcium should be 1.2%, Phosphorus 1.0 % for puppies. Most dog feeds are Ca 1.0% and Phos .8% this is too low for fast growing pups. Cut the amount of feed as most pups with rickets are too fat and eating too high a fat diet.
All sources of calcium do not have the same digestibility.

Pup

Cod liver oil

Rickets

I thought I had a problem with rickets went to the vet. The doc says most all foods today will prevent rickets. I was giving cod liver oil vitamins, he said I was making it worse problem was they were growing too fast used a large breed puppy food cut out on cod liver and vitamins straightened out okay. Got a pup from Barry Kiddy he told me a lot of people were having problems with these pup foods and high proteins feed them a cheap food keeps their bone straight.

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