What puppy food would you reccommend please?

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As title really - its for a rottie. I like the look of Chudleys, does anyone have any views (good or bad) on this brand? Any opinions very gratefully received!

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Chudleys is made by Dodson and Horrell, they also make cat feed, which i feed my cat. I would have to say just going on the quality of there horse feed and there cat food, i would have to recomend it, but only if it is a puppy food you are on about. Other wise i would feed Hills puppy till atleast 6 months, they change to Chudleys!!!
 
A rottie is going to get through a fair amount of food as it grows up. Is this a new puppy? If so I would keep him on the food the breeder used at least for a little while and then change gradually to another premium food. With a breed like a rottie that has a huge amount of growing to do it is not worth skimping on food imo.
 
Am using James Wellbeloved for our springer puppies, though its working out to be a tad expensive.
5 puppies go through a 2kg bag in 3 days, each bag being almost £7
 
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A rottie is going to get through a fair amount of food as it grows up. Is this a new puppy? If so I would keep him on the food the breeder used at least for a little while and then change gradually to another premium food. With a breed like a rottie that has a huge amount of growing to do it is not worth skimping on food imo.

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She is from the RSPCA (her mum was rescued from a shed whilst in pup) and they are feeding her Bakers which I dont like so normally I would agree with you to keep feeding the same food but in this case I would rather not feed Bakers.

I know what you mean about skimping on the food and at the end of the day I dont mind paying more for better quality but I looked at the ingredients/amounts of each ingredients in both Hills and Chudleys and they are very similar so I thought they must be pretty much the same
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? However, as I know nothing about puppy food I am willing to be corrected on this if any one has different thoughts on this?
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I don't know much about chudleys - but have never heard anything particularly good about it. I always thought the best dried food was Burns (in terms of where the meat comes from and the lack of additives) - with JWB being the next best (but not sure since they been taken over by Pedigree?)

This is a very useful site:
Dog Food Analysis

Chudleys is on there:
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Aah right, yes agree with you about not keeping her on Bakers . I have never used Hills but it does seem very pricey. I have fed my GSd pup on Beta large breed. She is now 9 months old and it seems to suit her, the only problem is that I think she may end up too big
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Its about £27 for a 15kg bag, so not ridculously expensive. I know a GSD breeder who feeds his adults on Chudleys Working Crunch and they certainlylook well on it, but have no experience of the puppy food.
 
Widget - Thank you for that, its very helpful. The review on Chudleys was not great though was it?!
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This is so confusing - I never have this trouble buying my horse feed
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MurphysMinder - I looked at the Beta puppy food and I had decided to get that one but the woman in my local pet shop told me that it was basically crap and not to bother but if your dog has done well on it then maybe its worth another look? I was really pleased when I read what you said about Chudleys but then I also read the review (see above!) so now I am back to square 1 again! Oh god this is a nightmare!!
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Bakers is grim! Burns is good, as are Hills, JWB seems to have gone down hill a lot, dogs have been going off it. We sell a lot of Oscar food - their working dog high energy is wheat gluten free and £26.95 for 15kg so stacks up well regarding quality and cost. We also sell a lot of Autarky adult http://www.autarky-foods.com/dog-puppy.asp, I've just checked and the RRP for the puppy is £21.50 for 10kg.

If you feed a wheat based feed ie Beta, Bakers, you feed a lot more than a wheat free, as the wheat is used as a filler. So generally a wheat free food is more expensive, lasts longer, and means less poo to pick up (important with a big dog!)
 
to be 100% honest Chudleys doesn't actually look too bad from that analysis - I mean at least it has meat rather than derivatives in it....

Beta on the other hand:
Ingredients: Cereals (Min. 4% Rice), Meat and Animal Derivatives (Min. 4% Chicken), Vegetables Protein Extracts, Oils and Fats, Derivatives Of Vegetable Origin (Min. 0.5% Beet Pulp), Minerals, Vegetables (Min. 0.5% Chicory) .Antioxidants: Bha (E320), Bht (E321), Propyl Gallate (E310). EC Additives: Antioxidants and Preservatives..Vitamin A, Vitamin D3, Vitamin E, Vitamin C
Typical Analysis: Moisture 10%, Protein 29%, Oils and Fats 13%, Fibre 20%, Ash 7%

Looks vile....
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I agree, get off Bakers if you can. One of mine was fed it for a while to get some weight back on after a winter, and has been straight back on burns.

Ive always used Burns for my pups and older dogs. They only had mini bites while very small, and moved onto Canine Extra, which they have stayed on. 1, because my youngest is still growing at 10months, and 2, because my other looses weight to quickly without the higher energy. You could feed a high energy lamb or extra for a larger growing pup.

I've heard good things of JWB, but i would still stick with Burns.
 
tbh I'd say feed the best quality food you can afford whilst they're growing and developing (Hills, Royal Canin etc). I've found the best way to do a comparison on cost is to look at what you will spend daily. Dry, complete foods always come out cheaper than cans (because of the water content in cans you have to give more volume).
 
Hills I gave at first as is according to most vets that I have worked with the best food going. It has fewer additives and more beneficial nutrient content that alot of other feed. However if it IS too expensive then Id say JWB is the 2nd best (as would other vets I ahve spoken to!) Royal canin is good, just make sure you get the right one! they have a scientific line of feed which you can get from vets which is good, but store ones are often not as good, unfortunatly that is similar/more than hills!

just remember you get what you pay for in feed!
i kept mine on hills till 6 mnths to give him a good start then moved onto jwb due to costs compared with being a lowly vet student lol he does well on both so no complaints about either! he is 7mnths old and goes through a 7.5kg bag in a mnth and a bit but yours being a rottie is probably gonna get through one in just under a month. it works out cheaper buyin a big bag which will last longer for cost compared to weight of food bought!
 
Tbh I wish I could still get green tripe, which is what I hve always fed my dogs, but local slaughterhosue has now closed down
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You're right the Bet analysis isn't good, but I know a lot of kennels use it with success. I have used Oscars in the past, Working maintenance, but my dogs really went off it, don'tknow if they had changed the format. I will be moving Evie off puppy food soon, as Ii think she has finished growing (I hope) so will be doing some more research Ithink.
 
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Widget - Thank you for that, its very helpful. The review on Chudleys was not great though was it?!
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This is so confusing - I never have this trouble buying my horse feed
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MurphysMinder - I looked at the Beta puppy food and I had decided to get that one but the woman in my local pet shop told me that it was basically crap and not to bother but if your dog has done well on it then maybe its worth another look? I was really pleased when I read what you said about Chudleys but then I also read the review (see above!) so now I am back to square 1 again! Oh god this is a nightmare!!
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Our Border Collie pup has been fed on Beta Puppy from the day we had her. She's done very well on it. The local Pets at Home often has offers on it, which makes it even better value. I look for the offers, if it's not 2 for 3 there, I tend to buy the sack for £28 from our local feed supplier instead.
 
My collie x and flatcoat are both on Chudley's, and it suits them, nice firm poo (and not too much of it!)
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It's a good price and I get it when I buy horse feed so it saves an extra journey to a pet shop. They used to be on Autarky, also made by Dodson & Horrell, but our feed merchant doesn't stock it so had to order it in specially, and it was more expensive. I will be trying the cat food next as it makes sense to buy it all from one place, and it's cheaper than Go Cat
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Both my pups (8 mths and 16 mths) get Nature Diet wet food (390g per day - lamb or chicken) and ad-lib Nutro Large Breed Puppy kibble. They are both healthy and my vet always comments on how good their condition is.

Oh, and they have nice firm little poo's on this diet, which makes things easier for me.

ETA: This costs me no more than feeding them Bakers from the local supermarket, I buy online from Petmeds and it works out cheaper
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I have used frozen tripe, but been quite disappointed. Once defrosted it is very watery. I used to get a whole tripe from the slaughter house and just cut a big piece off each night for the dogs. One tripe used to cost £3 and last 3 GSDs nearly a week, because they were tearing at the tripe they always had great teeth , my vets used to comment on them. Guess I was feeding the Barf diet before it was invented
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Cow's stomach lining. And agree with MM, nothing comes close to it for conditioning. Although we did need to keep it in a seperate fridge in the garage, it did pong!

Very hard to get anything like that over here, even bones, since BSE.
 
We use chudleys for all ours

The pups are on it and we're very happy with how well they grow, and they always look good when they go to their new homes... its also not too high in protein!!

All the rest of our dogs from terriers up to GSD and Rottie are on the working mix and they look great... also not as windy as they can be on other makes!!
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We also feed ours bones if anything has gone to the abatoir... great for their teeth but doesn't look great when you have a visitor and there is half a pigs skull outside the back door!!
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We use Skinners feeds. www.skinnerspetfoods.co.uk
We currently have 16 dogs on it and tend to only use the puppy or the field & trial maintenence. 6 of these dogs are ours and the rest are clients dogs that are in for training with us. The majority of the dogs we train are gundog breeds but we have had dobermans, rottweilers and huskys on it too with great success!
Skinners are a dry food with straight forward biscuits. It's not pumped full of colouring (like Bakers) and does not cost the earth either.

I fed my first pup on BETA and not only did it nearly bankrupt me (well not quite but...), but she just didn't look right. Once I changed her onto Skinners she had a really good 'pick me up' and has been on it ever since!
 
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