Southern by Choice's Teaching Moments- Indoor LGD! Badger

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Ps. The rough collies is just a pet tho he does bark if he hears something strange. He's the most head in the clouds, silly but lovable dog I've ever met. He goes bumbling thru our flock of chickens, over the cats and I don't know if he ever realizes they were even there!!
I'm hoping to get a Great Dane puppy as a pet and companion/house guardian in the next year or so but I'm not sure yet how London will react to a new puppy especially one that lives in the house with His 'mom'! Also have been concerned about integrating a Dane into a farm/livestock type home. Guess we'll see if I ever even manage to get one and deal with it then.
 

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Very beautiful dogs! We have 1GP and she's wonderful. I plan on getting a second one to guard my sheep one day. How do you keep weight on yours? My female weights 55lbs and I can NOT get her weight above that. She's on 30% protein for, the sports dog formula from diamond. She has access to food all day and night and she's wormed.

I'm thinking about feeding her rabbit.
 

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SBC will have real answers but:
How old is she? I suspect that would make a difference.
 

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Yep full lol. I saw the mother and father on site. Both very large and beefy. Thing is she doesn't act like she's starving. She's got lots of energy to run around and everything but if you did the spine /ribs test (running your hand down the spine or feeling the ribs they are pronounced. Took her to the vet and they didn't find anything wrong with her but said they'd rate her 4/10 in the weight department.
 

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Very beautiful dogs! We have 1GP and she's wonderful. I plan on getting a second one to guard my sheep one day. How do you keep weight on yours? My female weights 55lbs and I can NOT get her weight above that. She's on 30% protein for, the sports dog formula from diamond. She has access to food all day and night and she's wormed.

I'm thinking about feeding her rabbit.

Sorry I did forget to put that. She's 2 y/o.

Yep full lol. I saw the mother and father on site. Both very large and beefy. Thing is she doesn't act like she's starving. She's got lots of energy to run around and everything but if you did the spine /ribs test (running your hand down the spine or feeling the ribs they are pronounced. Took her to the vet and they didn't find anything wrong with her but said they'd rate her 4/10 in the weight department.

@55 lbs I would suspect one of the following-
~the dam had more than 1 sire in that litter
~dogs may be severely inbred
~has a metabolic disease
~environmental cause

There are small Pyrs out their but those dogs are 75-80 lbs at the lightest.
55 - there is something wrong. Whipworms are rarely seen in fecals but are generally treated by symptoms- I would treat for possible whips.
If the dog had Giardia or coccidia as a pup that can cause permanent damage.

I would also run a blood panel and check for EPI

The dog should never be bred.
 

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I have a female GP that is a lightweight too. She is 65 pounds, has all the food she wants, gets special yummies, and has been checked out by the vet. She's about 10 years old, is a great chicken and sheep guard and like SBC said, will never be bred. As far as her breeding goes--????
 
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