Re: rottiweiler & german shepherd puppy


Nik And Mark Hurring wrote:
> If you read about some of the foods (Nutrience in particular) they suggest
> feeding puppy food from weaning until around 12 weeks and then for large
> breed puppies slowly swap over to the large breed puppy.
> The size of the biscuits is larger and also in particular Nutrience adds
> chondroitin and glucosamine to help with growing joints and bones.

Does Nutrience provide any science behind this recommendation? The
objective of a large breed puppy food is to slow growth and reduce
calcium intake in large breed puppies. The growth rate of these puppies
can be too fast and there are several subsequent musculo skeletal
adverse reactions from growing too quickly. Among them HD, OCD, Pano
etc.

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