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<blockquote data-quote="GenuineRisk" data-source="post: 3763410" data-attributes="member: 12"><p>I would never use a heat lamp over puppies - much safer to use a pet bed heater - they're not expensive, you can get the metal lead cover to prevent the puppies chewing it and they cost peanuts to run. Have seen a badly damaged bitch who got burned from a heat lamp not being positioned correctly.</p><p></p><p>Vet bed best invention ever for liters. Loasds of newspapers and some sort of penning for as they get older but I guess as they're collie, they'll soon be in the she'd behind straw bales.....</p><p></p><p>Make sure bitch can jump out of pen and she'll ask to be clean but at first, you may have to shove her out!! She'll feed and clean the pups for first three weeks, then you can start weaning them. I use a mushy puppy food (Beta) and puppy tinned on top. Worm at three, five and seven weeks. I feed four times a day once bitch has given up on them, can give milk as well if you want to, </p><p></p><p>OK, mine are poncey Weimaraners but value doesn't make a shred of difference in my book. If you breed a litter, you should commit time and effort into raising them to be the best they can be. I like my puppies in or near house so they get used to loads of noise etc but then, they're ,singly going to be working gundogs so essential they're not gunshy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GenuineRisk, post: 3763410, member: 12"] I would never use a heat lamp over puppies - much safer to use a pet bed heater - they're not expensive, you can get the metal lead cover to prevent the puppies chewing it and they cost peanuts to run. Have seen a badly damaged bitch who got burned from a heat lamp not being positioned correctly. Vet bed best invention ever for liters. Loasds of newspapers and some sort of penning for as they get older but I guess as they're collie, they'll soon be in the she'd behind straw bales..... Make sure bitch can jump out of pen and she'll ask to be clean but at first, you may have to shove her out!! She'll feed and clean the pups for first three weeks, then you can start weaning them. I use a mushy puppy food (Beta) and puppy tinned on top. Worm at three, five and seven weeks. I feed four times a day once bitch has given up on them, can give milk as well if you want to, OK, mine are poncey Weimaraners but value doesn't make a shred of difference in my book. If you breed a litter, you should commit time and effort into raising them to be the best they can be. I like my puppies in or near house so they get used to loads of noise etc but then, they're ,singly going to be working gundogs so essential they're not gunshy. [/QUOTE]
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