best quality cheap dogfood

kingston_2730

Hi we have 4 dogs all fed on JWB at minute but due to financial problems we have NO CHOICE but to change their food to a cheaper brand. I have been looking at Chappie dry or Wagg. Can anyone tell me which of these they think would be better or suggest a different cheaper food? Hopefully this will only temporary as I feel so bad about it but at the end of the day, the rest of the family (human ones) are eating cheaper foods and making lots of cut backs so I cant justify not making cut backs for the dogs too.

UKTigerlily

How much are you looking to spend a week? I've heard CSJ is good but idk how much it'd be? I spend £2.50 a week on my Dog but am not sure if CSJ is less

smileypigface

Definitely have a look at the CSJ website - the site does look, on the face of it, to only cater for working dogs but if you look at the choices of food available you will see that they do cater for all kinds of dogs, not just working ones. They are very helpful over the telephone too if you needed help to work out which of their varieties would suit your needs.

As a rough guide - I have two medium sized adult dogs - both around 19/20 kg in weight - springer spaniels - they are working strain but do not work - they are active family pets. I buy a 15kg sack of food and it lasts the two of them just over a month - a sack is just under a tenner. I was paying for delivery (delivery for one sack is the same as the delivery cost for two) but have now found a local stockist.

So CSJ Natural Champ Adult is about £4.50 a month (about a quid a week) for one dog. The quality is very very good - none of the problems associated with artificial colourings etc found in some cheap brands.

Definitely worth considering, in my opinion.

Good luck with your search OP.

www.csjk9.com

homeworkgirl

My 7 yr old black lab has thrived on both Wagg and Chappie wet and dry. He has been on Chappie exclusively for the past year only because he slightly prefers it to Wagg and is a very healthy happy boy with a lovely shiny coat. Hope this helps.

~Chameleon~

Another vote here for Chappie

Excellent hypoallergenic food, been around for donkeys years, very rarely (if ever!) causes digestive problems and is cheap as chips

kingston_2730

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Another vote here for Chappie

Excellent hypoallergenic food, been around for donkeys years, very rarely (if ever!) causes digestive problems and is cheap as chips

Is it the wet or dry that you use?

Chocmonster7

My parents Lab/Greyhound cross has been on Wagg for years and he's a very healthy 11 year old. I've just got a rescue Terrier and she's working her way through different samples but loved the Wagg I gave her.

kingston_2730

CSJ looks great but delivery costs here to N Ireland are crazy!! Is it chappie dry of tins that is better? Would prefer to feed the dry but not if it is of a poorer quality. Also, anyone know anything about Skinners?

foreign_correspondent

Wagg, Chappie and Skinners are all fine - basic, no nasty colours as far as I know, and are cheap - CSJ is also good, but if there is not a stockist near you it may be impractical.

My last little dog made it to 16/17 on Wagg with the odd tin of sardines/leftovers, and my mums dog looks very well on it, and is very fit - she is on the working dog variety which is cheper (tax free) but slightly higher in energy, which is fine if your dogs tend to be on the thin side, or very active. If not the normal variety would be better. I fed my current dog Wagg till she started getting a bit of middle aged spread, so she is now on a light variety of CSJ.

I know you can buy 2.5 kg bags of Wagg, and supermarkets tend to sell it, so it may be worth trying a small bag and seeing how they get on... after that the bigger bags are better value - I don't know how big your dogs are, but a £10 bag used to last my 12kg dog 3-4 months, so much less than £1 a week.

Rev

Vote for skinners here, either the duck and rice or salmon and rice, both hypo-allergenic, and vet uk have them for under £20 per 15kg sack. You feed 100g per 8kg of your dogs weight.

~Chameleon~

kingston_2730 wrote: »

Is it the wet or dry that you use?

I don't personally use it (no dogs now) just 30+ years of experience in recommending it to clients dogs. Ideal method is mixing wet with dry, the old fashioned way of feeding dogs before all the new fangled diets were designed to appeal to us 'umans

Nothing wrong with either Wagg or Skinners either, both good quality cheap foods.