What do you feed your dog/s?

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Just out of interest what do you all feed your dogs and what dry dog feeds do you think are better for them?
I'm looking to change my dogs feed, there are so many out there to choose from!
 
Both my Dobes have Skinners Duck & Rice about £20 for a 15kg bag which last 10 days, our Lancashire Heeler puppy is on Fish4Puppies and they all get additional tins of Sardines twice a week.
 
At the moment, the pup gets DUCK (a raw frozen complete food) by hand and from a Kong, and chicken carcasses. I have a bag of Skinners duck and rice out the back for emergencies. When it runs out I will be buying a bag or Orijen (ouch£££) but it will only be for hand-feeding, overnight stays etc.

Older dog is on Wainwrights senior salmon and potato, he is only four but it seems to keep his skin condition in check as the grain and protein level is very low, he gets chicken wings every so often too.
Both have bones from the butcher.

Arden Grange is another good brand.
 
Bakers :D

(No, not really!)

at the moment we're trying Harringtons or any good meat based dry food (rather than cereal based) with Pets at Home gravy sauce which just wets it a bit and seems to go down well
 
Both of my Danes are on Arden Grange lamb and rice - decent meat content and ingredients list and one of the only foods that has suited the eldest boy's guts!
 
I feed raw but don't follow 'BARF' slavishly (dont feed veg for example). If I was going to feed dry I'd probably try fish4dogs.
 
Chicken, mostly, I've got a job lot of carcasses in the freezer but you can also feed wings and legs, some companies will deliver in bulk if you have the freezer space.
Liver and kidneys out of the Tesco bargain bin :D I got some heart out of there last week which is great for them to get them working teeth/jaws.
Prize Choice do frozen tripe, chicken mince, fish, rabbit etc in handily-sized blocks from the freezer section of larger pet stores.
DUCK is another good alternative.
Tripe is a great food for dogs but it really honks.

There's a sticky at the top of the dogs forum with lots of info.
If you don't want to go the whole hog you can have one or two raw days a week.
 
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Mine are both on Barking Heads and love it. the first time I have got them on a dried food they really like. High meat content and no rubbish in there. Fantastic feed, I have been using it for about weeks now and both my puppy and my year old are looking good and eating well.
 
Not sure I could feed the faw food diet, I couldn't do anything with kidneys, liver etc. I'm rapidly going off meat myself for some reason.
Haven't heard of some of the dry feeds mentioned, will go google them.
 
CaveCanem said:
Chicken, mostly, I've got a job lot of carcasses in the freezer but you can also feed wings and legs, some companies will deliver in bulk if you have the freezer space.
Liver and kidneys out of the Tesco bargain bin :D I got some heart out of there last week which is great for them to get them working teeth/jaws.
Prize Choice do frozen tripe, chicken mince, fish, rabbit etc in handily-sized blocks from the freezer section of larger pet stores.
DUCK is another good alternative.
Tripe is a great food for dogs but it really honks.

There's a sticky at the top of the dogs forum with lots of info.
If you don't want to go the whole hog you can have one or two raw days a week.
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you can do 1-2 raw days a week? i didnt know that. I did look at one of the RAW website links on here not long ago and came away with the idea that you couldnt mix a dry food based with a raw diet so as not to confuse/upset digestion.

How would i work out how many chicken wings to feed a 23kg dog a day for instance.. is there a formula>?

i am tempted...
 
As long as you leave lots of time between the feeds, 12 hours or so, I don't think there is an issue, it is feeding at the same time or within short time periods which causes problems as raw and dry food moves through the gut at a different speed and can cause impaction.

I am not sure about formulas, I just wing it, using turkey legs from Asda or Tesco, with my big dog, one would do him for a whole day, two if I was feeling generous :p and keep a few Kongs in the freezer with something yummy that they can snaffle on during the day. Some of the more hardcore people would be able to help :)
 
thanks CC. i have been tempted by the cheap chicken wings in the supermarket cheap bin too. if i can work out how many to feed per meal - they seem pretty small - i might give this a go at least a few days a week.
im coming slowly round to the idea.

ofcourse, if i can get the daft bint to actually CATCH the bunnies instead of just chasing them uselessly during out tea time walk im hoping i could train her to eventually catch her own dinner and save me some money!

yes, i know what they say about hope ;)
 
My 2 are on Skinners salmon & rice after economising from the fish4dogs salmon. For some reason the F4D is much cheaper from vetUK than direct and the 12kg bag would last about the same time as 15kg bag of skinners so to compare properly you do need to work out how much it costs per day to feed using the RDA guidelines rather than just go on sack price.
 
when i got my poodle, I feed him with dog food and milk. but as he grows older , i am only feeding him meat, fishes and rice, he likes it very much..well he is eating any kind of food, as long as it is not bone and not poisonous. hahahaa funny dog
 
Both my Bullmastiff girls are on James Wellbeloved.

They both were rescue girls and had dodgy tummies on arrival and this seems to have sorted them out.

They also have protein by way of salmon steaks, chicken , diced beef and oily fish at least twice a week.

Denta Stix after their tea and random raw meat bones.

Don't pretend to be very knowledgeable about feeds but both look well and are fit. Vet seems happy with their diet.
 
Have both of mine on Skinners Duck & Rice (although also use Salmon & Rice too), both look great on it, and are doing very well.
 
lula said:
ofcourse, if i can get the daft bint to actually CATCH the bunnies instead of just chasing them uselessly during out tea time walk im hoping i could train her to eventually catch her own dinner and save me some money!

yes, i know what they say about hope ;)
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I was all for mine catching their own bunnies until Ricoh ate one whole and it made him so terribly constipated that for the next 24 hours he screamed every time he had a poo. :o

Now I have to pay £2 a bunny from the butcher but he quarters them up for me so I can ration them out and add veg to his lordship's portion. :rolleyes:

They eat a lot of chicken pieces, ribs from various animals, hearts, lungs, beef mince, liver, kidney, tripe, rabbit, pheasant, whole fish, tinned fish in oil, eggs, cooked veg, marrowbones to chew, Fish4Dogs if staying away anywhere.

Fish4Dogs is about the only food I'd consider if I had to feed dry but even with that I notice a difference, their poo is at least three times bigger if they've had a kibble meal and by god does it stink, Dax dropped one at the meet-up after her second kibble meal and scooping it nearly made me throw up. :eek:
 
The Natural Dog Food Company for my lab... been using it for nearly 4 years now.
Delivered by Fedex the following day if ordered before noon - they do have some stockists listed on the site.

http://naturaldogfoodcompany.com/

Great stuff, and only got onto it following my dogs extreme reaction to James Wellbeloved - made her very poorly indeed
 
Skinners Maintenance for my two (they're porkers by nature).....Jack hasn't put any weight on and Quila doesn't go mental on it. She came to us on fish4dogs and I'd go back to it if the smell didn't make me gag :o
 
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