EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

I recently got a 9 month old bluetick hound and he was thin in the skin when i got him thats why I got him to fatten him up and he aint been putting on weight i took him to the vet and they gave him all the shots that he needs what are some ways i can put weight on him you can see his hip bones thats it

  are you free feeding the dog ? what ya feeding the dog ? vet just looked at him to give shots what did the vet say ? i could ask you questions all day .   but try  probiotics and b-12   add a tables spoon of lard to it's diet each day .

I got a good lookin cur from a man who's yard he wanderd up in. Real leggy old timey looking young dog mabie a year or so old. Same way bag of bones you could count ribs and bumps on his back. Brought him home and its been 3 weeks or so now he looks good not fat but dang sure healthy. I wormed him real good 1st and most importantly and I fed him raw hamburger meat about a pound ever mornin and feed with about a half loaf of bread of an evening for 2 weeks along with liquid b12 on his feed. Slim as I call him has put on a lot of weight in the past few weeks using this method.

tape worm. Prizaqintal(sp) is about the only thing that will take care of them.

worm the piss out of him and go to tsc. Get a gallon of durmol rice bran oil and nurseall milk replacer. This mixture is guarenteed to add weight to any dog.

was about to ask the same question.  what about adding an egg to the feed?

And how 'bout how much oil do u add?  and wont any type of cooking oil help?

halfbreed i feed one can of baby formula full of high point dog food in the morning and one in the evening with the occasional handful of boiled pig meat and the vet said they cant find anything wrong with hinm and that he acted healthy and from the tests he is healthy

keep that bowl full till hes fat, you can put egg or corn oil in his feed. even done calf milk replacer. but free feeds the best way.

He won't eat all the feed I give him when I give him some in the morning there will still be some when I feed him in the after noon

  shut em down   get you some powdered pro-biotics they sell it every where [ feed dealers ]  and add to feed giving a b-12 shot increases appetite . and save all your cooking oil from the house it is flavored up with whatever you cooked with it bacon grease works wonders  . i don't use corn oil i use regular old fashion lard [ animal fat ] if you put bacon grease on the dog food i can garranty it'll clean the bowl lol i would  everythings better with bacon  lol .

i take some beef gravy over mine if they dont eat

Get em to fat and they're worthless in the woods.

You'll have to learn your dog, some dogs are just rawboned, but them kind are usually as hard as woodpecker lips.

I had a similar problem with two of my dogs, I switched feed to alpo or some crap like that, and within a week problem was solved.  One of the dogs was my bulldog house dog so i wasnt real concerned about the crap feed, but for my working dog i do half alpo (or whatever it is) and half high protein from TSC.