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“Do you by chance have a newborn puppy weight chart<\/strong>? We want to make sure our litter is gaining the right amount of weight.” – A.R.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve raised three Golden Retriever litters<\/a> and from day 1 we start weighing the puppies. It’s uber important to track weight because if a pup is not gaining or even worse losing weight then something is probably wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of years ago we noticed Falken from our second litter wasn’t gaining weight and ended up taking our little pup to the vet when he was only 12 days old<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is Falken pulled through after getting antibiotics and fluids from our emergency vet. He did fall behind on his weight gain and ended up being one of the smaller puppies from that litter.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Newborn Puppy Weight Chart – How Much Should Newborn Puppies Weigh?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Let’s get back to our question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question: <\/strong>Do you have a newborn puppy weight chart?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer:<\/strong> Yes. We tracked the weight of all 24 of our puppies (3 litters) from newborn until they were 8 weeks old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the second part of our question:<\/strong> “We want to make sure our puppies are gaining the right amount of weight.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not going to share all 24 puppy weight charts, but maybe sharing the puppy weight chart for one of our litters will help answer Part II of the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember this is based on our 3 litters of Golden Retriever puppies which is a larger breed of dog. Our mama dog, Raven weighs just under 70 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, Raven was bred with different sires resulting in different size puppies in each litter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re raising a litter of Chihuahuas you can definitely expect smaller puppies. On the other hand, if you have a litter of Great Danes you can expect bigger pups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QUICK RECOMMENDATION:<\/strong> If you’re raising or about to raise a litter of puppies you might want to check out our Whelping Checklist<\/a>. We list all the supplies we use to whelp our litter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Much Should A Newborn Golden Retriever Puppy Weigh?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to make an assumption that we’re talking about a puppy at birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We weighed all 24 of our Golden Retriever puppies the day they were born and there was a decent gap between our heaviest and lightest puppy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I noted earlier each litter had a different sire and Raven is a Golden Retriever which is a larger dog breed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question:<\/strong> How much should a newborn Golden Retriever puppy weigh?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer:<\/strong> In our first litter the average newborn puppy weighed just over 1 pound (16 ounces). However, out of 3 litters (24 puppies) our largest puppy at birth was 17 ounces and the smallest was 10.5 ounces.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 8 weeks old our largest puppy was from the first litter at 16 pounds 5 ounces.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 8 weeks old our smallest puppy came from the third litter at 8 pounds 8 ounces. And everything in between.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is a huge difference! The largest is nearly twice the size of the smallest! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing to note:<\/strong> We had litters of 6, 8, and 10 puppies. The larger the litter the smaller the puppies were at birth and through their first eight weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newborn Puppy Weight Chart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is the newborn puppy weight chart<\/strong> from our first litter of Golden Retriever puppies. There were 6 puppies in the litter and the puppies from litter #1 were larger than the puppies from litter #2 and #3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each puppy wore a different color collar represented by the header in the first row of our table. The puppy weights were measured in pounds and ounces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example:<\/strong> Day 1, Black Collar Puppy = 1:1 = 1 pound, 1 ounce<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully that all makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without further adieu:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raven’s 1st Litter – Puppy Weight Chart<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We put together 2 printable PDF documents in our Resource Library<\/a>. One has the Puppy Weight Chart below in printable PDF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can access our Resource Library by joining our email list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n