From a nutritional perspective, it’s very important that your mini breed dogs and its young pups eat food that’s specifically tailored to their unique nutritional requirements. That’s why Royal Canin Mini Starter Mother & Babydog provides everything needed for dogs weighing up to 10kg as well as for its weaning puppies up to 2 months old. Royal Canin Mini Starter Mother & Babydog is designed with using Royal Canin’s Start Complex’ – an exclusive combination of nutritional elements the same as those in the mother’s milk – reinforced with specific nutrients that contribute to supporting the puppies’ digestive health and natural defences.

Ingredients:

Dehydrated poultry protein, rice, animal fats, vegetable protein isolate*, maize, beet pulp, hydrolysed animal proteins, minerals, fish oil, soya oil, fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), fatty acid salt, yeasts extracts (source of betaglucans), marigold extract (source of lutein).

Key Benefits:

• Natural Defences and 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 and Lactation Support. Nutritional profile which is adapted to the bitch’s high energy needs at the end of gestation and during lactation.
• Easy Rehydratation. 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.

Feeding Guide:

Age (Weeks)Dog’s weight 1-2 kgDog’s weight 3 kgDog’s weight 4-5 kgDog’s weight 7 kgDogs weight 10 kg 0-3 Babydog Milk Babydog Milk Babydog Milk Babydog Milk Babydog Milk 3-4 10 g (1/8 cup) 10 g (1/8 cup) 10 g (1/8 cup) 10 g (1/8 cup) 10 g (1/8 cup) 4-5 30 g (3/8 cup) 30 g (3/8 cup) 30 g (3/8 cup) 30 g (3/8 cup) 30 g (3/8 cup) 5-6 30 g (3/8 cup) 30 g (3/8 cup) 60 g (5/8 cup) 90 g (1 cup) 90 g (1 cup) 6-7 40 g (4/8 cup) 40 g (4/8 cup) 80 g (5/8 cup) 120 g (1 cup) 120 g (1 cup) 7-8 50 g (4/8 cup) 50 g (4/8 cup) 95 g (1 cup) 145 g (1+5/8 cup) 145 g (1+5/8 cup)

Nutritional Analysis:

Analytical Constituents (per kg as fed) Crude ash 8% NFE 30.70%     Amino Acids   Arginine 1.63% Lysine 1.50% Methionine 0.57% Methionine + Cysteine 1.07% Tryptophan 0.30%     Minerals   Chloride 1.08% Potassium 0.80% Magnesium 0.07% Sulphur 0.40% Copper 15mg/kg Manganese 65mg/kg Selenium 0.37mg/kg Iodine 4.7mg/kg     Vitamins   Vit. B5 (Pantothenic acid) 30.5mg/kg Vit. B6 (Pyridoxine) 9.9mg/kg Vit. B12 (Cyanocobalamin) 0.08mg/kg Vit. B3 (Niacin) 44.9mg/kg Biotin 1.3mg/kg Folic acid 1mg/kg Choline 2200mg/kg     Other Guarantees   Starch 25.50% Dietary fiber 6.50% Lutein 5mg/kg Beta-carotene 5mg/kg Arachidonic acid 0.11% Linoleic acid 4.75% EPA + DHA 0.31% L-carnitine 50mg/kg Glucosamine + Chondroitin –