Worms or Pot belly

[evolutionkennels]

Aside from what Evo said, and since the mama is the one who passes-on her worms to the pups, the truth is proper worming of the pups begins with proper worming of the bitch before conception, during gestation, and after whelping ... all of this will ensure that your pups get minimal worm transmission from her to them ... before you even begin to talk about worming the pups themselves

Keeping the mama in an above-ground pen, and swapping her to a new pen every day (while you clean-out the dirty one) is also a great way to keep worms to a minimum ...

By contrast, if the mama isn't wormed, and if she's being kept in a dirt-floor pen, or even a cement-floor pen, she will be nothing but a massive worm factory passing hundreds of thousands of worm eggs onto her pups ... and her pups will become the same thing.

So, since you don't want to hit your hip pocket and learn everything at once, you might want to read this article for some more info. Just bits and pieces from my book.

Jack

My vet at Brittmore animal clinic said that you can worm the bitch EVERY DAY with Panacur after day 45 of the pregnancy and you wont have a single worm. You do this up until the pups are two weeks old. This is a new recommendation that I have never heard of until now. It males sense however

To prevent transplacental and transmammary transmission of somatic T. canis and A. caninum in the pregnant female.
Dose:50 mg per kg PO once daily from the 40^th day of gestation to the 14^th day of lactation.