The chart below will assist you in calculating the daily amount of raw food required for a growing puppy. The amounts calculated are per day.
Splitting the total daily requirement into smaller meals aids your puppy digestion and prevents bloating.
You should regularly check your puppy weight and activity levels to maintain a good balance between weight maintenance and growth.
For large breed dogs, you have a little more leeway to adjust amounts based on activity level. Depending on their age, you will feed a percentage of their total current body weight per day in kg.
For examples, if you have a 9-week old puppy who weighs 8kg you would calculate their food intake as per below:
At this age, we feed 10% of current total body weight per day times 8 kg, so 0.1 x 8 = 0.8 kg per day or 800 grams per day.
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Age
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% of body weight
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Calculation
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8-10 weeks
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10%
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0.1 x body weight
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10-16 weeks
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8%
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0.08 x body weight
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16-20 weeks
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7%
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0.07 x body weight
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20-24 weeks
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6%
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0.06 x body weight
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24-36 weeks
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5%
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0.05 x body weight
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36-56 weeks
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4
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0.04 x body weight
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56-68 weeks
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3%
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0.03 x body weight
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68 weeks +
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2-4%*
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0.02-0.04 x body weight
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*depending on exercise
