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Post by braveheart on Mar 18, 2011 19:24:38 GMT -6
Does any one give their working dogs and clovite or stride to help there working ability?I was big into the stride for hunting and clovite for the female with pups and also giving it to the pups.
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Post by musher on Mar 19, 2011 5:12:48 GMT -6
I've never heard of either. What are they?
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Post by braveheart on Mar 19, 2011 5:30:55 GMT -6
The Clovite they give to mink to horses a powder supplement.And the stride is a pellet for horses.It lets you keep the dogs lean for work and give them super nutrition.I just put a teaspoon on the food .The Clovite gives the female some super pups and then the pups really do well on it.
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Post by trappnman on Mar 19, 2011 7:37:45 GMT -6
I used to, back in the day add cracklings to their food during periods of hard work.
kind of off the subject, but with bitches that just whelped, I found it very important to give them lots of "sloppy" food as soon as they come out of the box- something that has good nutirtion, and lots of liquid- i'd use calf replacer mix the first few meals mixed with a high grade meat type food.
I found that this really gets the milk flowing.
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Post by braveheart on Mar 20, 2011 5:35:54 GMT -6
Being a meat cutter the dogs got a lot of fat in the winter month to help them out staying warm.
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Post by trappnman on Mar 20, 2011 18:57:57 GMT -6
kind of off the topic, but related-
I used to find 3 things to be essential with working hounds
1) a bottle of Combiotics- amazing stuff, it takes care so many things disease to injuries. I've seen it perfrom ?miracles" overnight
2) aspirin- muscle pulls, sprains, arthritiss- for beagles 1/3 of an aspirin- once a day for 2-3 days, agian is something I see good results for. Had one old guy that 1/3 a tablet everyday made all the difference in the world in his ability to get arouns and be comforable (retired dog)
3) bacterial/fungal/protection spray- I used BlueCote (or somesuch) made for cuts on horses- works great for hotspots and other minor skin diseases.
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Post by braveheart on Mar 21, 2011 5:52:01 GMT -6
The buffered baby was a main stay,till better thing came along.Got to give them to your stud dog a breeding time I gave baytril to the dogs for bad bites and Pencil. G for the little stuff. Was real big on just good old cleaning.Sometime 2 twice a day. Grandulex horse spray is used for mouth cuts to outside stuff and myself.It promotes new cell growth and eats away the old dead cell.They use similar stuff in rest homes on bed sores.It is amazing stuff.
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Post by John Porter on May 16, 2011 13:45:00 GMT -6
Red cell horse vitamin and plenty of exercise is what my hounds get. I put 1 cc on their food daily...
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Post by braveheart on May 16, 2011 19:28:52 GMT -6
I use to give my dogs a lot of B-complex but it made them carry to oxygen on the red blood cells and the little black dogs in the Summer would over heat fast.It was to much friction .
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Post by HemphillCreek on Jun 4, 2011 20:04:31 GMT -6
I use wheat germ oil and canine redcell poured over their food.At whelping time i include calf milk replacer.
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Post by rockcreekcurs on Jun 8, 2011 23:11:57 GMT -6
Clovite is great for Bitches that have just whelped, but I give it to them all through their pregnancy, up until the pups are weaned.
The best performance supplement I have found is "Peak Performance". If you work your dogs hard, you will see a huge difference while they are on this stuff. If you don't work them enough the dogs will sometimes get hot spots and surely drive you crazy!
I have seen dogs that were kept on a raw meat diet and supplemented with Peak and they were incredible.
Take care.
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Post by braveheart on Jun 9, 2011 5:47:54 GMT -6
The Clovite is good stuff.I feed a lot of beaver meat with the stride when working the dogs hard.They would bounce back fast after a good roughing up by coon.I know about the hot spots that too came with the Stride.
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Post by trappnman on Jun 10, 2011 8:15:55 GMT -6
kind of off topic, but related-
on bitches that have just whelped, I feel its very important to get that first meal or two down her as fast as she will eat it, and make those meals as full of liquid as possible- I usually just mix a milk replacer in with a good meat wet food, make it warm and sloppy so she wants to eat- and you will have far fewer if any milk problems.
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Post by Coon King IV on Jun 14, 2011 20:44:27 GMT -6
Enjoying this thread. Got a couple of patterdales a few months ago. Im definatly short on dog care experience after a coon fight.
Keep the good info coming.
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Post by braveheart on Jun 15, 2011 5:44:58 GMT -6
The dog maintenance after a hunt is very important or the vet bills will bad.The best thing is good luke warm water and a surgical scrub and some neosporum to pack the holes.On the second day I use a bacterial scrub and put grandulax on the cut even if in the mouth.It promotes new tissue growth and eats away dead tissue. A small Baby aspirin only once a day to keep the comfortable and if bad 1 cc of penicillin every other day for 4 days.
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Post by trappnman on Jun 15, 2011 9:43:59 GMT -6
Combiotics is a miracle drug on cuts and infections. always had a bottle in the fridge
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