For those who love to raise dogs, many people will like golden retrievers. However, many friends said that they have never raised a dog, they don’t know how to raise a golden retriever, and they are worried about what problems the dog will have. The question they are most concerned about is what is good for golden retrievers to eat and what are its characteristics.

1. What do golden retrievers eat?

The diet of golden retrievers also has certain rules. Puppies are different from adult dogs. When a newly purchased puppy arrives home, the feed must be carefully prepared for the first period of time. You must ensure that your dog’s diet is reasonable and nutritious. Protein, calcium, vitamin D and other nutrients are very important, so friends who have young golden retrievers at home must pay attention to this. What a Golden Retriever eats directly determines whether it can grow up healthily. Before the Golden Retriever is one month old, it is best to feed on milk, because at this time the puppy's intestines, teeth, and body are not fully developed.

What does a Golden Retriever eat? In fact, the best food for a Golden Retriever is dog food. If you cannot feed it dog food but eat home-made food, you should pay attention to the mix to ensure a balanced nutrition.

If it is a puppy, you should pay special attention when feeding it. Generally, you can feed it dog food or canned food. If you are looking for milk powder, it is best to buy milk powder specifically for puppies. In addition, you can also feed egg yolk. The advantage of egg yolk is that it not only contains Rich in protein, and contains vitamin A, calcium and minerals that are easy to digest and absorb. Of course, meat is the best. It should be noted that although beef, pigs, chicken, etc. are excellent foods, when feeding puppies, you should choose fat-free parts because fat is easy to deteriorate. But feed cooked meat, not raw meat!

In the months from 2-3 months after weaning to within 3 months, the puppy’s food composition will determine its lifelong eating habits. If you plan to continue to feed special dog food in the future, you must adapt it to the taste of special dog food during this period of time. If you plan to raise them with family meals in the future, the food should be mainly animal protein and feed more high-calorie foods. When the baby is 2-3 months old, the meat should be cut into fine pieces before feeding it because the teeth and lower jaw are not fully developed. Milk, butter, cheese, etc. are also suitable. But don’t give them hard bones, etc. yet.

If you want your golden retriever’s hair to be shiny and beautiful, you can feed your dog more protein-rich feed every day. Additives containing vitamin E and vitamin D, seaweed foods, vegetables, etc., such as lean meat, cooked egg yolks, vegetable oils, etc., and feed less foods rich in sugar, salt, starch, etc.

2. Nutrients needed by golden retrievers

⒈ Vitamin supplements: such as multivitamin complex powder or tablets such as Golden Vitamin for Puppies.

⒉ Nutritional: those whose main function is to supplement protein and various nutrients, such as puppiesGoat milk powder, nutritional cream, etc.

⒊Calcium supplements: calcium powder such as super calcium, calcium tablets, etc.

⒋Coat-beautifying products: There are many kinds of hair-beautifying nutritional products such as top-grade seaweed powder for the beauty and nutrition of dogs’ fur.

⒌Pigment supplements: Natural nutrients such as natural astaxanthin that supplement pigments for dogs. ⒍Things that protect joints: such as ammonia sugar and some commonly used nutritional supplements that protect joints.