How Much Should a Husky Puppy Eat a Day?

Controlling the diet of puppies is quite a difficult task, as owners often overfeed or underfeed puppies. Such is worse for Siberian Husky puppies, which are known to be medium-sized dogs and is often assumed that they should be eating a lot more than other breeds per day. What about a puppy – how much should a Husky puppy eat a day? Does it eat more than other puppies of other breeds?

So, how much should a Husky puppy eat a day?

The average Husky puppy requires around two cups of usual dog food, three times per day. This translates to between 433 calories to 808 calories. Feeding your Husky puppy the correct amount is crucial to keep your dog happy, healthy, and active. Moreover, it will allow for your Husky to grow into the large, agile dog that it’s known to be!

However, many questions linger even after having how much a Husky puppy should eat answered: what type of food should Huskies avoid? When should it eat more/eat less? To make sure that your Husky stays healthy, it’s essential for you to know about your puppy’s diet inside out.

How Much Should Husky Puppies Eat From Each Category Per Day?

1. Proteins

You want at least 50 percent of your dog’s diet to be composed of protein. This is especially true for Husky puppies because they are in the process of growing, developing muscle, and strengthening their overall bodies. Moreover, these puppies are known to be one of the most active puppies among dogs. This means your dog will likely have lots of small muscle damages (that’s how muscles grow and develop). Proteins are essential when your dogs are recovering, ultimately allowing them to be the strong, powerful Husky adult you want it to be!

Fat is not too bad for Huskies and Husky puppies. They already have some ability to digest and extract nutrition from animal fat. Therefore, you don’t have to avoid fat proteins in particular. However, because most commercial dog foods are high in fat, we recommend that you rely on leaner proteins. Examples that you should be looking for are chicken breast, beef meat, and beans. These are easier to digest for your puppy (if they are cooked well and cut into smaller pieces). Moreover, leaner protein means a higher concentration of protein, which leads to stronger, larger muscles that help your dog stay agile, active, and healthy.

2. Carbohydrates

You want around 30 percent or less of your dog’s diet to be carbohydrates. This is unusually high for dogs, but your Husky puppy is a bit of a special case since it’s capable of digesting lots of carbohydrates. Since Huskies are a very active breed, some carbs will help your dog remain active throughout its puppyhood, allowing it to develop muscles and cardiovascular endurance and health naturally. At the same time, if you are feeding commercial dog food to your Husky and are thinking about what snacks you should provide your companion with, we recommend that it’s something other than carbs as commercial dog foods tend to be very high in carbs because of how cheap they are.

Again, there aren’t a lot of carbohydrates your Husky should be avoiding. However, if it is a puppy, prevent yourself from feeding it products that have a lot of flour in it; Husky puppies tend to have a very difficult time digesting products like bread because of flour. On the other hand, you can feed it soft, plant-based carbs like potatoes and corn. Potatoes are great when it comes to maintaining high energy levels for a long time, and corns are perfect for helping you protect your dog’s immune system. The right amount of these types of carbs will help your dog stay active, so take note!

3. Fat

Fat isn’t necessarily bad as long as your Husky’s diet doesn’t consist of over 17 percent fat. For Huskies, fat is an essential source of long-term energy that can be paired with carbs, the energy supplement, to keep your puppy happy and active. It’s also important that all 17 percent of the fat shouldn’t be from animals. 

In fact, vegetable fats are easier to digest and have more value in terms of energy levels. You can easily provide healthy fat for your puppy through the means of avocados, nuts and seeds, and olives. These are healthier alternatives as they won’t cause as many digestive problems while keeping the nutrition levels nice and balanced!

Why You Shouldn’t Feed Your Dog Too Much Of One Thing

You may or may not have noticed, but your Huskies can digest and extract nutrition from most ingredients available in commercial dog food and organic food. This flexibility is a huge advantage for owners as it makes your lives easier! 

The reason why your Huskies are so flexible is likely because they grew up in terrains and environments in which food and resources were quite scarce. They adapted and learned how to make the most of each ingredient that is available in nature. However, it’s never a good idea to feed your dog too much of one nutritional category. 

Please remember that just because a website tells you that your dog needs around 800 calories doesn’t mean that you should be satisfying 100 percent of the requirement with commercial dog food, carbohydrates, or any singular nutritional group. This is terrible for your dog’s nutritional balance. 

1. Excessive Protein

Excessively feeding your dog protein will lead to digestive problems and, even worse, arthritis in your puppy’s joints. Digestive problems can be countered with vegetables, but arthritis is difficult to overcome. Joint issues are detrimental because it puts your dog in a harmful loop. Because it’s eating too much, its body is exerting too much pressure. After the arthritis forms, the dog becomes even lazier as it hurts to stay active. Such issues can spiral into canine obesity and weaken your growing Husky’s immune system.

2. Excessive Fat

Too much fat, as you might already know, is horrible for your Husky’s health. In fact, Huskies are born with a lot of fat as they originate from colder biomes where they needed the thick layer of double-coating and fat to make sure they maintain warmth. For this reason, if you feed your Husky fat, especially animal fat, it might lead to kidney failure, liver issues, or pancreatic problems. However, they are not as susceptible to heart failures as humans are, as they are better at breaking down the fat. You won’t have to worry too much about that! But there are other problems that arise from too much animal fat, so do be careful.

3. Excessive Carbohydrates   

Carbohydrates are one of the macromolecules essential for humans and other mammals, but dogs don’t need them. Many scientific research has proven that dogs can survive without any carbohydrates in their system. To them, products like corn and potato are simply energy supplements that they can take alongside their regular dose of fat that they like to burn. Too much carbohydrate might lead to problems such as obesity since less fat would be burned off due to the energy supplement. Luckily, Huskies are capable of metabolizing carbohydrates quickly, but be careful not to concentrate on feeding carbs to your Husky.

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