what do you lads recomend is the best food for your terriers

[blackpack 70]

have tried the meaty bones and lets just say its not much fun trying to split a full blown terrier fight up on ya own when you have 3 dogs as they are not in a run they are fed together normally with out any trouble. but thanks for the reply

to be honest mate you should never feed terriers or any dogs together you are just asking for trouble might not have had yet but one day there will be a fight. You could feed them singley ive got five dogs and its not too much trouble. You should never cook tripe bud takes out the goodness. Whatever you choose to feed good luck

[Rainmaker 7]

Raw food mate. Chicken frames, lamb breast, whole fish, necks, backs, all kinds of things. Add in some RAW green tripe and offal once or twice a week and you're laughing. If you haven't got runs up, buy a couple of terrier crates (about £20 new, cheaper second hand) and separate them in those for feeding. As was said earlier feeding terriers together always leads to trouble in the end, even if it's dry food. I'm talking from bitter experience there

 

Out of the foods you refer to, I would definitely start shopping around mate.

 

Pro Plan and Chudleys are low quality foods with a lot of unnecessary grains and byproducts, and last I saw it Chudleys were using BHA, BHT and ethoxyquin though I believe they've finally stopped doing that. For my money they're terrible foods, with very low quality ingreidents. You can read more about the Chudley's range and the ingredients at DogFoodAnalysis.com here. Use their search to find the exact products you're referring to out of the two companies' respective ranges.

 

If you want to stick to dry food, I always recommend Orijen. It's expensive to buy initially but is extremely high quality, grain free (made with 70% free range, hormone free meat and 30% fruit & veg), no artificial colours, additives or preservatives and it lasts almost forever. My terriers require 60g a day instead of 250g of cheap biscuits containing grains so you can see how "cheap" foods are a false economy. It pays for itself and lasts months, definitely recommended if you're after a dry food. You can still always supplement with a few raw meaty bones and tripe etc as the opportunity arises.

 

I hope this was of some use/interest. Cheers

[willum 89]

cheers chaps for the info shall look into some of these atb willum

[terrierone 32]

WAGG WORKER ,, HIGHER PROTEIN LEVEL SWEAR BY IT MATE NOT ALL PET SHOPS HAVE IT THO , MY TERRIERS GET IT ALSO LURCHER , WITH FRESH RABBIT NOW N AGAIN GOOD LUCK

[Rainmaker 7]

WAGG WORKER ,, HIGHER PROTEIN LEVEL SWEAR BY IT MATE NOT ALL PET SHOPS HAVE IT THO , MY TERRIERS GET IT ALSO LURCHER , WITH FRESH RABBIT NOW N AGAIN GOOD LUCK

 

With the greatest of respect mate, that's not a quality food at all. Please don't think I'm being a clever arse or argumentative, take a look for yourself fella:

 

Ingredients

Wheat, Meat Meal, Wheatfeed, Oils & Fats, Linseed, Maize, Beet Pulp, Peas, Lucerne, Vitamins and Minerals. Added Citrus, Yeast and Yucca. With Antioxidant: BHT.

 

 

Typical Analysis

Protein 23.00%

Oil 10.00%

Fibre 3.00%

Ash 8.00%

 

 

The main ingredient is wheat. The animal protein is only second on the list, and is an unspecified 'meat meal'. It's the only source of animal protein in the ingredients list. From what animal? What part of the animal? If they're trying to hide the origins, you can bet your bottom dollar it's basically floor sweepings. Any decent meat source would be proudly named and emblazoned across the packet for the world and his wife to see!

 

'Oils and fats'... from what? Animal? Vegetable? Mineral? LOL Again, low quality bargain basement leftovers, so low in quality they couldn't even put a name on it.

 

Skip a few ingredients (Linseed is likely for Omega 6, beet pulp is controversial but not that bad really, etc etc..) and we come to 'Vitamins and Minerals'. Source? Type? Levels?

 

The kicker is right at the end; 'With Antioxidant: BHT'. That's a nasty chemical, banned in human food use for its carcinogenic (cancer causing) properties.

It might be fairly cheap to purchase, but I bet you have to feed a fair amount of it too - resulting in it costing more than a quality food (raw or kibble) in the long run over the weeks and months. It's also low in protein and fat and moderately high in Ash. Overall the food is about 60% wheat and wheat feed, low quality cereals well linked to allergy in dogs. Do the mutts a favour and find something higher in named animal protein and as low in (or free from) grains as possible.

 

As I said, not having a go at personally fella, but I see dozens of posts on here saying 'such-and-such' food is best, when the ingredients list tell a different tale. If we only took a few minutes to learn how to read those lists, what they mean, and how that affects the dog we're shovelling it into, we'd all be a lot better off. Cheers.