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7-week old mini English bulldog puppies off of king Escobar. Going to show them off, show the care, show the pen that we keep them in, and show the feeding process that we use for these 7-week old bulldog puppies. We're going to feed the 7we old puppies. Now, I recently changed my 7we old puppy uh formula to feed them because of um some problems. So, what happens with uh with with the younger bulldog puppies is they have a tendency to knuckle. I actually don't know the scientific word scientific word for it. So they walk and their ankle bows out. Now the reason that happens is is a protein too much protein which causes an imbalance in the muscle and tendon growth which makes it so they'll.
Buckle. So you want to give them a low protein diet. It actually like goes against my my feeding regimen because my bullogs are fed so such high quality food, high quality everything. And with the puppies, I give them this. This is pretty bad food. Okay, this is the chicken flavored dog chow by pirina. It's bad dog food. I would never give it to my adults and it probably cause outbreaks. But with the puppies, it works and it's I've seen a couple puppies already that had the tendency and knuckle. You give it this, it stops them. So, as a precaution, uh, for the first couple months, I only give after they get off the milk, I give them just the pina dog chow here. Um, so.
I make a little formula. This is what I do. So, I give them just a pirina dog chow because I don't want that protein deficiency. When I give them too high protein, um they'll they get that deficiency and cause them to knuckle. And I mix it with just a little bit of milk. And the only reason I do the milk powder is just for flavor. I just want them to eat it good. And another reason I do it too is because with these puppies,.
I have to give them um their medication and they won't this medication sucks. So this is a dewarmer with fen bendazol. So the puppies have a little bit of loose stool. So I'm giving them a dewarmer at 7 weeks. And I'm also giving the fen benzol which if they do have um giardia which is very common um even though my adults have perfect stool and everything uh they can the adults can still carry giardia which can give it to the puppies and puppies don't have the strong immune system so they show it. So the luctool could be just could be slight worms or giardia and I'm that's why I'm giving him fenbenzol in the dew warmer which takes care of everything. But this stuff tastes.
Horrible. So instead so to make them eat it I'll put some milk in there and it's 2 mill um 2 milliliters per pound. So I have in there um right now I have five in there. They each weigh about uh it's it's about I just doing the math off top my of head. Just trust me, it's about it's about 6 mls of this.
Which is right there. And now we're good. Yeah, if you try give them this fenbenzol safeguard in their mouth, they go crazy. So I don't do that. So I do that. I use filtered water. So I have a a reverse osmosis machine and I have weld water. So all this water is reverse osmos. So this is very this is like better than your bottled water. Just saying I don't just give them any I wouldn't just give them any any faucet water but since I run off a well which is natural spring water and everything that comes out of this faucet is um through my reverse osmosis machine it's a very high-end filter machine um it's a very good drinking wire so it's warm.
I mix that and then, so this is mush, right? They're 7 weeks old. So I want to make them so they can eat, they eat a little better, get used to chewing. So oh, cheese. So just to um to facilitate I'll take some of this and get them used to I don't like the whole pieces because they could choke on that. So I just like to take a little bit.
There we go. I make sure they're not yeah, that's perfect. And this will get them chewing. And whenever you're giving them pieces to chew at first, I always recommend monitoring your puppies and watching them um just in case they do choke, you're there. So I don't would never feed them when when you first get them. Look at this little little pieces. When you first start getting them on to to chewing their food, always watch them. So we're going to watch them whole time. So this is their food right here. Very simple. We're going to take it to the puppies. So like I said, don't ever feed your puppies the first time giving them hard solid foods um without watching. So I give them this. So.
Nice little circle bowl. Now I'm going to explain what I have going on here. So this baby don't move. These are esbar puppies. Come here, baby. I grab the skin. Doesn't hurt her. Look, he's getting confused. Help him just so make sure these ones don't hog all the food. So, they eat really well. Now, one thing to always make sure that they're going to see us is I use the food to see how well they're they're they're feeling. If I if I saw these puppies, if I saw one of them not want to eat, I would immediately think something's a matter and I would now start assessing that puppy. Also important to keep the bottom clean so you can see the poop. Um because if.
The poop's loose or bloody or anything, it's a problem. Come on, buddy. But they're hungry. They're eating really good. And I feed them a ton. Now the pen. So the pen I I is a drop pen. If you look from this side right here, or if you just look, you can don't even look. You see right here? Look. So they're it's a floating floor floor. And then I keep, you know, the bed here. So I don't want them just on wire. That's that's cruel. And what allows it to do is because the puppies this young, they'll poop and run and walk in their own feces. So this poop goes straight down, keeps them out of their poop, keeps them clean, and makes it easy.
Clean. I take I take the trays out and clean them there. So I love these drop pens. Now, as you can see, I'm still not fully moved into my place. We have, you know, the dog the dog facility gets way more attention than the house, but this is our little makeshift puppy puppy facility area here. We have a we'll we'll get better as we um finish the facility. But as you can see, the puppy's doing well. Always keep a a a fresh cloth in there to lay on because if you're going to if you're going to keep your dogs on on a grate for any reason, I strongly recommend and I think it's only fair to make sure the puppies have a nice soft area.
To go and sleep and lay down. So they do. And then so they eat this. I'll give them water, too. After they're done with this, I'll start putting water in the dish. Um so they get used to just being a normal dog where they're eating regular food and water. Um, so I'm thickening up the dog food and putting little pieces of actual dog food chew in there as they get older and older and get closer to 8 weeks so that when they go 8 weeks to the new home, they're ready to go. So, these puppies are looking super good, too. Look at them. Look at this little girl. King assar daughter looks really nice, right, baby?
So, also too, if you're interested, I know um so my my buddy he has it's he owns big bone bulldogs. He has these these pens on his website. You can go get him there. Um, but I really like these pens. And even for a younger puppy, um, if you wanted to train them in this at first, it works really well, too. But when you have one, two puppies, not a big deal. But when you have five or six, I mean, they're just going to pee and poop and then run all in. So, this makes it so much easier. Keep them clean. And these puppies are are are 7 weeks old now. You see the structure is really nice. Like like I'll show they're they're still.
Eating fat on my bottom. I love this girl right here, though. The rope. The escoar rope. The escoar bone. This boy right here. Come here, boy. Ah. This boy. You're so cute. But they're all really nice. See? So, this is why you watch them because so, I'm watching no, I was just my I feel like she's being light on her right on her back left leg, but maybe she's not. So important to watch them. And they're eating good. The only reason these ones aren't eating out is I'm here and they're they're getting, you know, clustered by me. But they're all eating good. They all have full bellies. No one looks lethargic. Everyone's moving well. This is very, very good. All good news. 7 week old.
Puppies. Make sure you stay tuned. Um, keep on watching episodes. Watch us on all the other channels. Click follow them down below because we're always posting the puppies and showing their progress. They they mature so fast. Also, a little thing too is we put this this like a shower curtain thing here because they do pee and poop outside the pen. So, it makes it so it's easier to clean up. But soon we'll have the puppy stalls down at the facility and we'll keep keep them there probably. But this is for puppies. Works really well. And um on to the next thing. Me and this king esar son really appreciate you for following us, watching us and staying tuned to the DaBestBulls Ranch episode. Make.
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