Hi All I am having a hard time understanding the feeding guides. I feed Rolo on Royal Cannin Junior Maxi. The vet said to use 30kg adult weight as a guide. So it says the following.... Age - 3 months = 298 g 3+1/8 cup Please excuse my stupidity but does that mean 298 grams for the whole day, which equates to 3 and 1/8 cups. They have a measurement guide on the cup that comes with the food which is marked up like 1/4, 1/8, 1/2 etc. Thanks
Yep, that's what it means. Remember it's only a guide. I fed Charlie on Royal Canin, used 25kg as adult weight (he is 30kgs as an adult) and never fed him more than 60% of what it said on the packet. Best to keep your puppy slim.
Thanks Julie, Where i struggle is - I looked at the adult weight as 25kg and the recommended food intake was more than if his adult weight was 30kg, does that make sense?
Yes, we feed Royal Canin. We feed the recommended amount at first but it invariably gets reduced as, after the first month, they become too chunky on the recommended amount.
Not by much, and not for very long. It's because the weights along the top are not really weights within a breed, they are for different breeds. Much larger breeds than Labradors have a longer growing period, so you feed them less to begin with, and more later on. It really isn't all that accurate. Betsy has been on 100g a day of puppy food since I got her. I started her off on 100g a day, then thought she was a tad chunky so I didn't up her food as she grew. I never thought she was getting too thin, so I never upped her food. At 6 months, she is still on 100g a day (the slack has been taken up by her training treats, no doubt, as the older she got the more training she did).
