Best Dry Food

[cantona 310]

Grain free dry food is good

[BGD 6,385]

All my pups are reared on a raw diet for the first 18 months and any dogs in training go back onto a raw diet but dry food has it's place as part of a maintenance diet IMO.

 

A lurcher working flat out during the season should definitely be on a raw diet or at least heavily supplemented with plenty of flesh

[Dig-deep-draw-charlie 2,707]

I feed my bulldog and pups on orijen dry food, not cheap! To keep them all on it would be mortgage money, so I just give the pup a bowl every day then anything after that is barf diet, so imo not all dey food is crap, u will just pay for the good stuff, and I swear by that orijen gear!

[tank34 2,178]

Beta a good dry food £30 a sack

[morton 5,367]

All my pups are reared on a raw diet for the first 18 months and any dogs in training go back onto a raw diet but dry food has it's place as part of a maintenance diet IMO.

 

A lurcher working flat out during the season should definitely be on a raw diet or at least heavily supplemented with plenty of flesh

The best working lurchers ive ever owned seldom ate much barf and worked accordingly,if id have known then what i know now id have had them on a barf diet,i did,nt and they grafted,i now know and feed the mutts far better on barf,they will never reach the potential of the mutts i had back then on dry meal and their catch,mainly dry in the summer months.

[desertbred 5,490]

 

 

 

 

 

tried all the top bag food in time including Origen quid a bag ,nothing beats raw in my eyes

I use mixture of both covers all eventualities, but these new age feeds are a major step forward, they stem from Canada where the feed standards are massively better than our own poor standards for dogs and they not even in same ball park quality wise

 

Yet all the top mushers out there feed their sled dogs predominantly on fish and meat ........

 

I've been out on the Iditarod (support crew) - our teams were fed a mixture of raw and kibble...as was every other team!!

 

Yep I was there many moons ago that's why I said PREDOMINATELY feed meat and fish .......

 

So the sled dogs get kibble? I wouldn't of thought that.

 

I imagined they were fed solely on meat, fish and lots of fat.

 

Fat Eskimos

[Somewhereyournot 1,117]

Raw is best and that quid a bag stuff, if I spent that on raw I would have enough feed for 6 months for two lurchers. Fuxk that. Convenient maybe, but just setup there's the day before t thaw whilst in work jobs a good Un

[Maximus Ferret 2,055]

 

I used to use Gain record breaker when it contained more meat than any other ingredient. They changed the recipe so it's no different than any other cheapy now. I tried switching to Redmill racer as I can get it cheap but it makes them fart unbelievably!!!! I only feed a very small amount too so I've got something to fall back on if I run out of meat and bone. Even then the big bitch farts something wicked.

If anyone does know of a reasonably priced half decent one I'd like to know. I'll probably stop feeding kibble altogether to Sadie as she just doesn't fart at all when I leave it out.

Gain record breaker was canny when it was 44% chicken and the dogs shit was similar to a raw diet, I still don't think its bad now but don't think its worth the extra from the normal gain. I noticed dogs looked well on gain so they must be getting something right.

I feed raw minced chicken and chicken backs now 16/17 kg for £7 I'd be mad not too.

Also feed beef, lamb, hard fat and veg which works out as cheap if not cheaper than a budget bag of dog food.

 

I get chicken necks, 5 euro for 10 kilos, so I suppose about the same. I also get fatty minced beef scraps, pig and lamb hearts, beef kidneys and free lamb and venison rib cages and venison trims (belly flaps and the like) and a bit of fish so they do OK. I only feed a couple of handfuls of kibble but I daresay they'd do OK without it.

[BGD 6,385]

 

 

All my pups are reared on a raw diet for the first 18 months and any dogs in training go back onto a raw diet but dry food has it's place as part of a maintenance diet IMO.

 

A lurcher working flat out during the season should definitely be on a raw diet or at least heavily supplemented with plenty of flesh

The best working lurchers ive ever owned seldom ate much barf and worked accordingly,if id have known then what i know now id have had them on a barf diet,i did,nt and they grafted,i now know and feed the mutts far better on barf,they will never reach the potential of the mutts i had back then on dry meal and their catch,mainly dry in the summer months.

I often wonder how much better the great dogs of the past could have been with what we know about nutrition and fitness training now...

[trenchfoot 4,243]

MIllies wolf heart is possibly the best range of modern complete dog food. grain free and between 60 and % meat.

[socks 32,253]

MIllies wolf heart is possibly the best range of modern complete dog food. grain free and between 60 and % meat.

 

I feed raw meat which is ..... 100% meat .......

[trenchfoot 4,243]

 

MIllies wolf heart is possibly the best range of modern complete dog food. grain free and between 60 and % meat.

I feed raw meat which is ..... 100% meat .......

 

thats like asking "whats the best Porsche", and been told "Isuzu"

[roybo 2,873]

I've always said the best food is the one that your dog eats ,enjoys and does well on.

Be that dry raw or a mix .....

As long as they do well and enjoy their grub ,be happy .

Mine is a fussy fecker I feed a good raw diet ,he looks OK if a little light.

If I could find a complete that he would eat and do well on,I'd be ordering it now

[Sean Hartigan 101]

 

 

 

 

 

tried all the top bag food in time including Origen quid a bag ,nothing beats raw in my eyes

I use mixture of both covers all eventualities, but these new age feeds are a major step forward, they stem from Canada where the feed standards are massively better than our own poor standards for dogs and they not even in same ball park quality wise

Yet all the top mushers out there feed their sled dogs predominantly on fish and meat ........

I've been out on the Iditarod (support crew) - our teams were fed a mixture of raw and kibble...as was every other team!!

Yep I was there many moons ago that's why I said PREDOMINATELY feed meat and fish .......

 

 

Just pointing out that Kibble is fed too - we did a mixture of horse, fish, fat and kibble mostly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4eUn7pmqLM - - a good video of food being set up for the drops on the Iditarod.

 

good video, psyllium is interesting, didn't know about it, giving mine gain puppy & sapling with whatever raw I can get at the moment, trim, chicken carcase, road kill, got a deer on the road a few weeks ago, got a whole chicken in the packaging in a plastic bag that someone obviously dropped off their bike yesterday, I'm like a hawk when driving on these country roads early in the morning

[terryd 8,046]

Yes mine can be fussy too gave him a whole chicken carcass the other day and looked at me as if to say what the hell to expect me to do with this wheres me kibble

Edited July 17, 2016 by terryd