This calculator will assist you in determining a starting point in how much calcium to give your bitch after whelping if she is showing signs of aberrant behaviors. These behaviors include aberrant behaviors, such as anxiety, aggression, poor mothering, digging in the whelping box, moving puppies, growling at or biting puppies, growling at or biting you, hiding, etc.
TO GET STARTED, enter your bitch's weight and note whether it's in pounds or kilograms.
PLEASE REFER TO the Calcium Report (click here) for details on using calcium during and after whelping.
Bitches vary greatly in how much additional calcium they need to maintain stable behaviors. Learn what your bitch needs rather than use a hard and fast rule.
If you need to supplement your bitch, divide her daily dose throughout the day, giving it 4, 6 or even more times a day. Whatever enables your bitch to remain stable.
There are two amounts of calcium that you need to understand. The first and most important is elemental calcium, the amount of dietary calcium available in each type of calcium supplement. The second is the calcium listed on the container. Not all of the calcium in a product is available to your bitch so we need to do a calculation to figure it out.
If your bitch is showing no symptoms of low calcium, you do not need to supplement her with calcium.
If your bitch continues to have symptoms 30 minutes after giving her calcium, you can give her more and exceed this dosing.