My 6 months old female lab wights around 19-20 kg (42/43 ibs). Kona is quite small, so everyone thinks she is about 4 months old, but reading your posts here, she does not seam so small to me.
Although all puppies are different 6 kg seems a lot at 8 weeks, Juno didn't top the scales at that weight until she was 11weeks old and she wasn't particularly small. What are you feeding you puppy on and how much? It is very important that you don't allow puppies to become overweight as it is bad for their developing joints and limbs.
Hi and welcome @monalisa. Sounds as if you've got a big boy on your hands, perhaps one to rival @Rosie 's Pongo Why not drop by the Introductions tab of the forum and say hi to everyone and tell us more about your boy, and we love puppy photos as well
Molly at 4 months is tipping the scale at 34.8lbs (15.7Kg) 3rd Vet visit She was 15lbs (6.8Kg) a week after we brought he home at her 1st Vet visit And 25lbs (11.3Kg) at her 2nd Vet visit
Ajax turned 6 months today so I took him to our vet to get him on the weigh scale. Uh, surprised to see that my little pup is now 58 pounds (26.4 kg). He's going to stop growing, right?
Not for a while yet. Charlie's growth plates closed at almost exactly a year, although I think he reached his final height (give or take a tiny amount) by about 10 months. But between year 1 and year 2.5 he put on a clear 2kgs in muscle.
Thanks Julie for that info. My concern now is whether I'm feeding him enough. He's on a raw diet and his daily allowance is based on what we believed would be his expected adult weight of 65 pounds. Could we be wrong? May explain why he seems hungry so much of the time, but then again it's my understanding labs are like that no matter their intake volume.
OK..Brambles weighed on Monday at the vets....at 14 weeks topped the scales at 13.6kg...the vet commented what a big girl she is going to be....err...
@Beanwood I've got to the point I think where I use what the scales say as a guide, for me it's what the body shape and feel is telling me that's more important. Bramble looked gorgeous in the last photos. Juno gained 500g a week on average and she's a pretty big girl , so it just shows how different they all are. @alpha dog we all just have to estimate what we think our dogs adult weight will be based upon the size of parents and the 'norm' for the breed. Then for those of us using kibble we reduce the amount recommended by around a third ad the manufacturers always seem to over estimate what a Labrador needs to be fed. I wouldn't worry too much about him appearing to being hungry all the time, some would eat 24 hours a day given the opportunity. It is better to make sure that he stays nice and slim.
Our Annie is very greed and could eat for England if you let her. You would think I never feed her Fred isn't and many a time does finish his meals.
I think most Labradors are hungry all of the time! Mine certainly is - best thing you can do for your dog is keep him slim. So unless he starts looking too thin, then don't up his food.
According to the most respected BARF producer in Croatia, puppies should eat 5-6% (adults 2-3%) of their mass (at the given moment), in time of the rapid development. My 6,5 month old labrador (20 kg) eats around 0,5 kg of raw food as her growth is slower now. She is still hungry all the time, poor puppy.
Yes, I read somewhere that Labradors don't have the receptors in their stomach that tell them they are full..... so they really will keep eating forever. Perpetually hungry, bless 'em. It's easy to feel sorry for them, especially when they give you those puppy-eyes.... but as someone on this forum said "they're going to feel hungry whatever you do, so it's better they are hungry and fit than hungry and obese!" Our Pongo is a big boy - he put on about a kg per week for the first 35 weeks of his life. He stopped growing taller at about one year of age, but continued to fill out in muscle; he is now just over two years and 41.5kg, and I hope to heaven that he has finally stopped growing now!!! . I think he is one of the biggest labs on this forum, but he isn't overweight (honest!), just a very big dog. Sounds like Ajax might be the same model!? We never really followed the guide on the feed pack, we just followed the advice of his breeder (which was broadly in line with the guide); and we also kept a close eye on his shape. The best instruction I heard was that you should not be able to see his ribs, but you should be able to feel them when you run your hands over him - they should feel as though they are under a thin blanket, NOT a sheet and NOT a duvet! And he should have a visible waist when you view him from above, and a nice tuck up behind the ribs when you view him from behind.
I presume his major growth spurt is over now. Called the breeder and learned that his mom was 60 pounds and father was 85 pounds. So I'm expecting somewhere in the middle. If he's at the high end then I've been underfeeding him through this growth period but he seems just fine and I'm good for spending less money.
