Folate for Brood Bitches To Help Prevent Cleft Palates

Seriously, where does the time go? One of those tiny Spy x Pippi puppies is now 3.5 years old and has been bred!  Fingers crossed for Bijou's puppies to arrive in early June.  Going to be posting a lot about the pregnancy process in the coming weeks so stay tuned.

Speaking of which, Here's Bijou having her morning frozen folate slushy - coconut water, spinach, kale, and flaxseed meal. It's remarkably delicious and the bitches eat it up like crazy. We also do supplement with folic acid in pill form, which has been shown in numerous studies to greatly reduce cleft palate and other midline defects in dogs 
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But we also firmly believe that taking a pill is not the best way to access nutrients - ​​what we think of as "folate" is really a whole array of nutrients that work together and support each other to create a health effect.  So we do the folate shake daily at least one month in advance of breeding.

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