If your dog is pregnant or has recently given birth, it’s important that both she and her puppies have the right nutritional support to ensure continued health for the mother, and the best start possible for her puppies. ROYAL CANIN® Giant Starter Mother & Babydog contains all the nutrients your dog needs to support them during pregnancy and throughout the lactation period. Containing a high protein, energy, and mineral content, this food caters to the dietary requirements of both the mother and her pups. The ‘Start Complex’ feature is the result of committed scientific research by ROYAL CANIN®. It’s an exclusive combination of nutritional elements which are present in the mother’s milk. Reinforced with special nutrients, Start Complex actively contributes to supporting your puppies’ digestive health and natural defences while they’re still in the early stages of development. ROYAL CANIN® Starter Mother & Babydog is also available as an ultra soft moose, offering a high level of palatability with the same nutritional support and digestibility.
Key Features:
- Start complex / natural defences – digestive health : The fruit of ongoing science from Royal Canin, start complex is an exclusive combination of nutritional elements which are present in mother’s milk, reinforced with specific nutrients which actively contribute to supporting the puppy’s digestive health and natural defences.
- Gestation / lactation support : Nutritional profile which is adapted to the bitch’s high energy needs at the end of gestation and during lactation.
- Easy rehydration : Easy to rehydrate to a porridge-like consistency which is very palatable for the bitch and weaning puppies and facilitates the transition from mother’s milk to solid food.
Ingredients:
Composition: rice, dehydrated poultry protein, animal fats, vegetable protein isolate*, hydrolysed animal proteins, maize, beet pulp, minerals, soya oil, vegetable fibres, fish oil, fructo-oligo-saccharides, psyllium husks and seeds, hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), fatty acid salt, yeast extracts (source of betaglucans), marigold extract (source of lutein).
Additives (per kg): Nutritional additives: Vitamin A: 19000 IU, Vitamin D3: 1200 IU, E1 (Iron): 42 mg, E2 (Iodine): 4.2 mg, E4 (Copper): 13 mg, E5 (Manganese): 55 mg, E6 (Zinc): 134 mg, E8 (Selenium): 0.07 mg – Technological additives: Clinoptilo-lite of sedimentary origin: 10 g – Preservatives – Antioxidants.
Analytical constituents: Protein: 30% – Fat content: 22% – Crude ash: 7.9% – Crude fibres: 1.9%.
Feeding instructions:
see table. Batch number, factory registration number and best before date: see information on packaging. To be stored in a cool, dry place.
Feeding guide:
| AGE (WEEKS) | ADULT WEIGHT | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 kg | – | 60 kg | – | 80 kg | – | 90 kg | – | 100 kg | – | |
| 0-2 weeks | BabyDog Milk | BabyDog Milk | BabyDog Milk | BabyDog Milk | BabyDog Milk | |||||
| 2-3 weeks | 30 g | 3/8 cups | 30 g | 3/8 cups | 30 g | 3/8 cups | 50 g | 5/8 cups | 50 g | 5/8 cups |
| 3-4 weeks | 110 g | 1+2/8 cups | 130 g | 1+4/8 cups | 160 g | 1+7/8 cups | 200g | 2+3/8 cups | 200 g | 2+3/8 cups |
| 4-5 weeks | 170 g | 2 cups | 195 g | 2+2/8 cups | 220 g | 2+4/8 cups | 240 g | 2+6/8 cups | 240 g | 2+6/8 cups |
| 5-6 weeks | 190 g | 2+2/8 cups | 220 g | 2+4/8 cups | 250 g | 2+7/8 cups | 280 g | 3+2/8 cups | 280 g | 3+2/8 cups |
| 6-7 weeks | 245 g | 2+7/8 cups | 275 g | 3+1/8 cups | 300 g | 3+4/8 cups | 400 g | 4+5/8 cups | 400 g | 4+5/8 cups |
| 7-8 weeks | 320 g | 3+6/8 cups | 360 g | 4+1/8 cups | 400 g | 4+5/8 cups | 480 g | 5+4/8 cups | 480 g | 5+4/8 cups |
| Gestating bitch | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Gestation (weeks) | Adult weight | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| – | 45 kg | – | 55 kg | – | 65 kg | – | 85 kg | – | 100 kg | – |
| 6 weeks | 503 g | 5+7/8 cups | 584 g | 6+6/8 cups | 662 g | 7+5/8 cups | 810 g | 9+3/8 cups | 915 g | 10+5/8 cups |
| 7 weeks | 548 g | 6+3/8 cups | 637 g | 7+3/8 cups | 722 g | 8+3/8 cups | 883 g | 10+2/8 cups | 998 g | 11+4/8 cups |
| 8 weeks | 594 g | 6+7/8 cups | 690 g | 8 cups | 783 g | 9+1/8 cups | 957 g | 11+1/8 cups | 1081 g | 12+4/8 cups |
| 9 weeks | 640 g | 7+3/8 cups | 744 g | 8+5/8 cups | 843 g | 9+6/8 cups | 1031 g | 11+7/8 cups | 1164 g | 13+4/8 cups |
| 1 cup = 240 ml = 86 g | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
From the manufacturer
YOUR PUPPY IS NOT A DOG – THEY NEED SPECIAL NUTRITION – IS A HUMAN BABY FED LIKE AN ADULT?
Obviously not. Babies have fragile digestive systems, small jaws and no teeth, so they can`t bite into an apple, for example. This makes it easier to understand why puppies also require a different diet to adult dogs. Diet during the growth period plays a key role in puppy`s future morphology and health.
ROYAL CANIN Mother & Babydog Giant food made for giant puppies with adult weight from 45 kg and over. Mother dog during gestation and lactation – weaning puppies up to 2 months old.
