After eating: keep them clean
After feeding, it's super important to keep puppies clean, and to make sure they stay on a clean surface and don't sit in their food or their mess.
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Common questions › Feeding
What Should I Feed My English Bulldog?
The short answer
We don't feed anything chicken-based. Bulldogs have a lot of allergy problems, and chicken is the one I keep out. Our adults eat a fish-based dry food mixed with a little wet food, fresh eggs from our own chickens, and vitamins.
How much: for an adult, about 1/3 cup per 10 pounds of dog per day (so about 1 cup a day for a 30-pound dog), split into the meals. Then use common sense: if your dog's getting fat, feed less; if it's skinny, feed more. Puppies start on a smooth, warm mush at 4 to 5 weeks, which gets thicker as they learn to chew.
Our recipe for adult bulldogs
We use beef tallow and fresh eggs farmed here at the ranch. Every week or two I change it up: right now blueberries, mixed greens and mixed veggies. We mix in three different dog foods: 4health Salmon, Taste of the Wild Ocean, and a can of Grasslands or beef.
Then a little wet food and water, mixed with the dry food, and you get a really tasty-looking dog food. The dogs absolutely love it. It keeps their coats healthy and keeps them healthy.
How much: for an adult dog, about 1/3 cup per 10 pounds per day: about 1 cup a day for a 30-pound dog. Do the math for your dog. And at the end of the day, common sense is the most important thing: your dog's fat, feed it less; your dog's skinny, feed more. You want your dog looking nice and healthy.
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No chicken, vitamins, and twice a day (Parts 1 to 3)
We don't feed anything chicken-based at all. We use Orijen Six Fish, 4health Salmon and a can of Grasslands, mixed one to one, plus fresh eggs. We got our own chickens just for the dogs' eggs; I'd like one egg per dog.
I take the shells out because my dogs don't like them. Shells are good calcium, but dog food already has plenty of calcium, so they don't need it.
Then the wet food: we use a couple of kinds, Blue Buffalo is one I like. I crush the Glyco-Flex and the multivitamin into the food, so even the picky eaters get their vitamins, and it's easier to digest.
We feed twice a day: the big mix with everything in it in the morning, straight kibble at night. The total for the day is about 1/3 cup per 10 pounds of dog.
All our dogs are super healthy, with great coats and no problems. This mix is for adults only, not puppies. Allergies are a huge problem with bulldogs, so feed them right: no chicken.
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Puppies: starting on mush
My mush recipe is very simple: 4health Salmon, a lower-protein food, ground into a very fine powder so there's nothing they can choke on. Goat's milk replacer, and reverse osmosis water. Bottled water works too, or tap water if you know it's been tested. I'm overly cautious.
Never give young puppies cold food, and never too hot either: I always touch it to check. We start mush somewhere between 4 and 5 weeks, depending on how each puppy is developing, because every puppy develops a little differently.
At the start the mush is very smooth, almost watery. As they get older you make it thicker, with bigger bits, so they learn to chew, and eventually they're on solid food.
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