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Help! What To Know About Ekuke by embracepeace(op): 8:56am On Oct 29, 2020
Hi guys
I’m new here. I just paid for a Nigerian Shepherd Dog( ekuke)

It’s a new born and it will be with its mother till it’s 3 months.

Is theresomething or tips on maintaining a local dog, i don’t plan on letting it roam.

Thank you
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by Haroldjunior: 10:02am On Oct 29, 2020
Still the same way you take care of every other dog breed bro. It's no big deal. Just teach basic commands to them at a young age and be strict with the dog. It'd turn out great.
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by embracepeace(op): 10:22am On Oct 29, 2020
Haroldjunior:
Still the same way you take care of every other dog breed bro. It's no big deal. Just teach basic commands to them at a young age and be strict with the dog. It'd turn out great.
cheesy
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by embracepeace(op): 10:23am On Oct 29, 2020
Haroldjunior:
Still the same way you take care of every other dog breed bro. It's no big deal. Just teach basic commands to them at a young age and be strict with the dog. It'd turn out great.
It’s my first dog
any specific diet?
Thank you
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by Haroldjunior:
embracepeace:
It’s my first dog
any specific diet?
Thank you
For me, I feed eba with okra soup prepared with fish(mackerel), chicken head and intestines, soya bean powder, ground groundnut (use kuli kuli if it's what you can get), shrimp, little palm oil and vegetable oil, ground egg shells, and then I add binggo kibbles to the food I wanna serve. When making the soup, I usually do not throw away the blood from the fish, I steam to blood with a little water first to form a broth that would be the base for the soup, it attracts them more to eat up. I focus more on their food being proteinous. Then a daily dose of fish oil.
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by Nobody: 11:40am On Oct 29, 2020
Haroldjunior:
For me, I feed eba with okra soup prepared with fish(mackerel), chicken head and intestines, soya bean powder, ground groundnut (use kuli kuli if it's what you can get), shrimp, little palm oil and vegetable oil, ground egg shells, and then I add binggo kibbles to the food I wanna serve. When making the soup, I usually do not throw away the blood from the fish, I steam to blood with a little water first to form a broth that would be the base for the soup, it attracts them more to eat up. I focus more on their food being proteinous. Then a daily dose of fish oil.
Please do you mix all this together in one serving and can you post a picture of what the meal looks like.
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by Haroldjunior: 12:54pm On Oct 29, 2020
Bubewilson:
Please do you mix all this together in one serving and can you post a picture of what the meal looks like.
Yes, I add most of the ingredients to the soup, I mash almost everything except the fish and chicken, it's during the mixing process that I now mash the chicken, kibble and fish and mix with the eba which acts as filler. It looks horrible, but trust me, it does way better a job than most commercial dog foods, my female gsd is the biggest female gsd I've seen so far, she's bigger than most males and is bigger than the height for the female gsd breeding standards. I'll try snap what it looks like and send maybe later.
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by embracepeace(op): 1:15pm On Oct 29, 2020
Haroldjunior:
Yes, I add most of the ingredients to the soup, I mash almost everything except the fish and chicken, it's during the mixing process that I now mash the chicken, kibble and fish and mix with the eba which acts as filler. It looks horrible, but trust me, it does way better a job than most commercial dog foods, my female gsd is the biggest female gsd I've seen so far, she's bigger than most males and is bigger than the height for the female gsd breeding standards. I'll try snap what it looks like and send maybe later.
wow, all those you mentioned earlier are to be mixed together?

Nice, Thank you.

Is there any other food or side dish from that
and how much is the kibble?
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by Haroldjunior: 2:01pm On Oct 29, 2020
embracepeace:
wow, all those you mentioned earlier are to be mixed together?

Nice, Thank you.

Is there any other food or side dish from that
and how much is the kibble?
If you can't afford these things, just buy soya beans and kuli kuli to augment with whatever dish you serve if you can't afford all these things. The dish would obviously contain fish/meat na. I do all these to increase amount of protein in the serving
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by Kingnutts(m): 3:07pm On Oct 29, 2020
embracepeace:
It’s my first dog
any specific diet?
Thank you
unlike foreign dogs, ekuke can live fine on leftovers, but if you want a admirable good looking dog I'll advice u go for crushed noodles, popularly known as dog indomie, get that, get dog multivitamin, and get cod liver oil, Walahi ur dog go attract eyes, it's a local dog doesn't mean it should be treated poorly, if you cherish am well you yourself go dey proud of urself.. personally I'd pick a local dog over an Eskimo, even most of our samoyeds are wack .
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by Kingnutts(m): 3:18pm On Oct 29, 2020
Kindly collect ur pup once it's 6weeks old if you can... Most ekuke owners neglect the dog, at two weeks the pups are already hosting a sold out concert to worms n ticks, getting the pup early means u get to inject it against worms n ticks early enough for proper growth
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by Haroldjunior: 3:54pm On Oct 29, 2020
Kingnutts:
Kindly collect ur pup once it's 6weeks old if you can... Most ekuke owners neglect the dog, at two weeks the pups are already hosting a sold out concert to worms n ticks, getting the pup early means u get to inject it against worms n ticks early enough for proper growth
Exactly
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by embracepeace(op): 5:19pm On Oct 29, 2020
Kingnutts:
unlike foreign dogs, ekuke can live fine on leftovers, but if you want a admirable good looking dog I'll advice u go for crushed noodles, popularly known as dog indomie, get that, get dog multivitamin, and get cod liver oil, Walahi ur dog go attract eyes, it's a local dog doesn't mean it should be treated poorly, if you cherish am well you yourself go dey proud of urself.. personally I'd pick a local dog over an Eskimo, even most of our samoyeds are wack .
cooked one right?
Thanks
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by embracepeace(op): 5:21pm On Oct 29, 2020
Kingnutts:
Kindly collect ur pup once it's 6weeks old if you can... Most ekuke owners neglect the dog, at two weeks the pups are already hosting a sold out concert to worms n ticks, getting the pup early means u get to inject it against worms n ticks early enough for proper growth
Wow. Noted.


overall care
what do you think the cost is?
Re: Help! What To Know About Ekuke by Ekukestory: 9:46pm On Aug 31
I'm actually glad I came across this thread.

The line that caught my attention was:

"It's a local dog doesn't mean it should be treated poorly."

That is such a simple statement, but I think there's a much bigger conversation behind it.

Why do we sometimes assume that because a dog is local, it needs less care, less attention or somehow has less value than imported breeds?

I've been researching and writing about this very subject for a literary project called EKUKE — A Nigerian Dog Tale.

The story is fictional, but one of the questions behind it is very real:

Does being a local Nigerian dog make an animal less deserving of love and protection?

Reading through this thread and seeing people discuss feeding, caring for and raising their Ekuke actually reminded me that there are many Nigerians who genuinely value these dogs.

I'd love to hear from people here who have raised an Ekuke from puppyhood:

What made you choose an Ekuke instead of a foreign breed?

And would you choose one again?
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