Is it common for dogs to be intolerant to chicken dog food?

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I have 2 gsp's, one with a great constitution, the other a little delicate. He came to me as a pup on science plan large breed chicken and rice and had soft stools. I tried other brands in chicken and he was still soft, and only got better on lamb kibble.

Long story short, I want to feed them grain free good quality, and as raw isn't an option I bought orijen. Did a slow transition but now he's just on that he's got soft stools again, though the frequency is less. I didn't want to buy the red meat one as its SO much more expensive. Is it likely to improve or is this common and he can't have chicken?

Thanks!
 
Salem was always scratching on kibble. I went Raw and he got much better. I cut chicken out and he is better still. If I give him chicken again, he starts to scratch, develop rashes and ulcers on his nose.
 
I don't know if its common, my 2 greyhounds (brothers) seemed sensitive having soft poops and toxic farts on chicken kibble, we'd tried various brands before realising it must be the chicken not another ingredient. Once we switched them to a fish kibble they returned to solid poop and no wind, afraid i've not tried again since to see if there's any improvement over time.

A few people i know that tried orijen found it resulted in soft poop, so felt it was perhaps too rich for their dogs as they were ok on a lower grade kibble.
 
Thanks for the replies! Yes the toxic farts are vile!! I have some salmon autarky so I'll try him on that, just he has anal gland problems so I was hoping higher protein would give better stools to help empty them. Yum!
 
CL66 said:
Thanks for the replies! Yes the toxic farts are vile!! I have some salmon autarky so I'll try him on that, just he has anal gland problems so I was hoping higher protein would give better stools to help empty them. Yum!
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Consider Raw - the bone helps with the anal glands, no farts (in my house anyway) and the poop is just dry and chalky.

The poop alone is why I could never go back to kibble :eek:
 
I don't want to fully do raw as I have two big dogs and not enough space to store it to make it feasible. I feed bones a few times a week and get the white chalky poo which is great I just thought the Orijen would make it consistently hard and be better quality for them at the same time
 
I've known a dog to be allergic to chicken! Can't remember what he was fed but have a feeling it was a fish and potato exclusion diet.
 
Intolerance to chicken is not uncommon but unfortunately it often goes unrecognised as chicken by products frequently get missed by people reading labels.

James Welbeloved do chicken free foods as well as a cereal free diet. Skinners salmon & rice is surperb and much cheaper than similar diets.
Autarky salmon contains chicken fat!
 
I have a dog with some allergy issues and I switched her from Eukanuba Chicken and rice to Taste of The Wild - which is completely grain free and found all the issues she had (same as yours) went away. Quite expensive but very very good if you want to stay with dry food.
 
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i know you say raw isnt an option, so did i, but am now using 'natural instinct' ready prepared trays and they are awesome, made a huge difference.
 
Bestdogdash said:
I have a dog with some allergy issues and I switched her from Eukanuba Chicken and rice to Taste of The Wild - which is completely grain free and found all the issues she had (same as yours) went away. Quite expensive but very very good if you want to stay with dry food.
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Taste of the wild contains chicken. I know because a friend has a chicken intolerant picky Westie that doesn't like fish & I went through all the bags at the wholesaler a couple of weeks ago.
 
I looked at them and they probably work out at the same cost but the sheer quantity is what I can't cope with for storage but I'll be buying their boxes of bones. Bestdogdash what meat is the taste of the wild you use then? I think it's probably similar to what I'm using, I pay nearly £60 a bag
 
We tried our three on Orijen as we wanted to go grain free and even the eldest, who normally has an iron constitution, was a bit loose on it. The youngest is quite sensitive and he was terrible on it.

We now feed Acana (basically Orijen but with lower meat content) and they're all doing brilliantly on it, they absolutely love it too. It's still completey grain free, just seems the slightly lower meat content agrees with them more.
 
Acana too but got a bit annoyed that it is still pretty expensive and the first ingredient is 'meal' version of the meat it contains.

Maybe I'll pop them back on the lamb food and up their bones

Thanks so much for all ideas and info
 
Hi,I've had a E springer and a GSP who weren't solid on anything other than Eukanuba lamb & rice. And I tried a lot:-/ James Wellbeloved Lamb didn't work but the Eukanuba always did. Used it for 13yrs-no farts,no sloppy poos,no dodgy tummies:) Eukanuba chicken varieties resulted in looseness. Try it!
 
Not hugely common but not unheard of either! If you're going for Origen then you're already on the right track foodwise, even if you have to fiddle about a little try to stay within this range! The one thing I wanted to say was that of all the dogs I know of who are allergic/intolerant to chicken or poultry (and this is backed up by a Eukanuba rep - even if i don't like the food, reps have been there and done that!) are allergic to the protein, therefore the chicken fat used to make foods more palatable don't tend to affect these dogs.
 
TurtleToo said:
Not hugely common but not unheard of either! If you're going for Origen then you're already on the right track foodwise, even if you have to fiddle about a little try to stay within this range! The one thing I wanted to say was that of all the dogs I know of who are allergic/intolerant to chicken or poultry (and this is backed up by a Eukanuba rep - even if i don't like the food, reps have been there and done that!) are allergic to the protein, therefore the chicken fat used to make foods more palatable don't tend to affect these dogs.
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It may affect them less but it can still affect them - speaking as someone who's son has similar allergies/intolerances.
 
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