Sentences with phrase «from affected pups»

Breeding from affected pups is therefore not advisable.

Not exact matches

For those suffering from lead or other heavy metal poisoning, a protective diet that avoids processed foods and emphasizes the central components of a nutrient - dense and antioxidant - rich WAPF - style diet is essential (see sidebar).21 Nutritional status shapes susceptibility to lead toxicity in important ways, affecting lead's intestinal absorption; its mobilization, distribution and retention in the body; and excretion.22 Because oxidative stress is a likely mechanism explaining some of lead's toxic actions, some investigators have begun to explore whether natural antioxidants and trace minerals may help mitigate lead - induced cell damage.17 Specifically, researchers in Spain found that administration of vitamins A, B6, C and E along with zinc modulated some of the negative effects of lead exposure in rat pups, confirming the influence of nutritional factors on health outcomes following lead exposure.17 Vitamin D also should be a major component of a protective diet.

Affected pups are weak, uncoordinated, and mentally dull from birth.

Even so, we have found carriers and affected pups in kennels from coast to coast and north to south due to the widespread sharing of breeding stock.

Affected male pups usually die within a few months after birth from infections that their immune systems are unable to fight.

In these breeds the disease results from abnormal or arrested development of the photoreceptors — the visual cells in their retina, and affects pups very early in life.

To answer the question of how big your pup will get, here is an overview of how long puppies grow for, how breed affects size, and to predict the pup's adult weight from his current one.

In order to eliminate this mutation from breeding lines and to avoid the potential of producing affected pups, breeding of known carriers to each other is not recommended.

The bitch may be sore and discourage the pups from nursing; however, it is important to keep the pups nursing the affected glands.

Pups affected with CHG are abnormal from just a few days of age.

A significant decrease in litter size occurred if one of two affected parents had coloboma (3.8 pups) compared with litters from two chorioretinal dysplasia -(CRD --RRB- affected collies (5.2 pups) or litters by two normal collies (5.0 pups), indicating an influence of the coloboma genotype on offspring vitality.

Geography and stage of development affect persistent organic pollutants in stranded and wild - caught harbor seal pups from central California.