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paidinchickens

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Hi PIC - not seen you for ages :hello:

What brand is the dry / how big is the bag as that seems really cheap?

Do you know what's in it?

Re tins - Lidl do Butchers tripe mix ones for £5 for 2 x 6 packs and Mr T recently had the 12 packs for £4.30 - it's great quality for a budget wet food

Hi rising, lots going on but I've been lurking. Hope your well

materialgirl wrote: »

Before i die of shock by saying '1 bag of food a week!' what weight are the bags & are you feeding them the correct amount?
when i had 4 dogs average weight around 15-18kgs we used to go through a 7kg bag a month on good quality food either Skinners, Arden Grange or something similar.

dont forget, you get out, what you put in. :cool:

I'm sure I put "sack" not bag


Hubby says we get through a sack every five days (he brings them into the house as I can't lift them)

They are fed in the morning with wet food to flavour and then one large bowl is filled as they empty it up to 6pm at night, I know I will have an army saying you shouldn't leave food down but it works for us plus I know they have all eaten enough if it there when they want it. As rescue dogs they were food possessive and this way has stopped that.

I have also seen numerous articles over quality of food and there is nothing much between them it is all hype as in the vitamin business you can have all the "made up vits" but if your body can't use them they're useless.

Where is the cheapest place for james beloved ??? I have heard there is no VAT on working dog food.

Fosterdog

paidinchickens wrote: »

I have also seen numerous articles over quality of food and there is nothing much between them it is all hype as in the vitamin business you can have all the "made up vits" but if your body can't use them they're useless.

I can assure you 100% that it is not all hype, nobody here has mentioned brands with "added vitamins" and things that are not needed, they have mentioned brands that have more of the well digested stuff and less of the "bulk".

A dog fed on a food with a high wheat content needs to eat a lot more as they don't digest wheat so it all comes out as bigger poos, a dog fed on a food with less fillers and more digestible meat will have have smaller poos because the body uses more of what is put into it.

This is really no myth, all of my foster dogs have come to me on low quality foods and have had smelly bums, lots of waste to clean up and a very soft, almost too soft consistency.

For a long time I had them on CSJ food, this still has bulking items but not as much as some brands and within a week they all had less waste coming out the other end and they maintained a healthy weight long term despite the amount of food they were given being practically halved.

I have since switched to skinners due to my two having wheat allergies and their poos are now even smaller and firmer than before. Considering they are both large german shepherds I have seen more waste coming out of much smaller dogs.

One 15kg sack of skinners lasts my two three weeks, that's feeding one 35kg dog and one 37kg dog, before that the CSJ was lasting two weeks for the same dogs.

Any food with less wheat, rice, potato, corn and with more meat or fish is better for the dogs. Even better is a raw diet but it's not practical for everyone.

Merry_Wanderer

Skinners duck and rice, about £22 delivered for 15kg

This is all the food I buy for a 30kg greyhound and it lasts about 5 weeks.

She does get bits of meat and potato here and there as tit bits depending on what we are cooking, and the odd tin of sardines.

I did all sorts of experimenting with foods on our last dog and it cost a fortune. Skinners is the best I have tried for the money ad the doggie loves it, she even has the kibbles as treats if she is out and off-lead.

topsales

Following on from this thread - currently feeding Burns weight control to my diabetic Bearded Collie but my other Beardie is an underweight girl who isn't very interested in food. Don't have the freezer space to feed raw - can anyone suggest a kibble which might appeal to her and help put weight on. As a pensioner, money is a bit of an issue but obviously welfare comes first!

dawnie1972

I'm reading this thread and smiling to myself - I've been there, tried to feed my 3 dogs the cheapest way possible etc but learnt the hard way - but I got lucky - I've recently found a complete dry food called Eden and I couldn't even begin to tell you how happy I am with the end results. Eden is 100% natural, no fillers etc - if you look up Eden on the WhichDogFood website it gets 5 out of 5 as a score - I've recently changed my dogs onto it and the difference is amazing - Dolly's coat is soft and shiny, she has more energy (she used to get quite tired on walks etc) and they are thriving. Also because the food isn't bulked out with fillers you don't need to feed as much (it takes some getting used to believe me) - my 2 dogs are 15kg and 11kg and only need 120-140gm of the Eden per day which means a 7.5kg bag costing £30 will last me over a month and feed both of them.

topsales

Can't find it stocked online or locally though..

gettingready

I was feeding Zara "cheaper" food for a while - Skinners and Autkary so not the lowest type of food but... back to Orijen now and happy that I could.

Zara is 40kg and she gets 300gram Orijen per day. A bag is £65.00 but it lasts her 45 days so it costs me just under £1.50 per day to feed her.

As krlyr - I always look at price to feed per day rather than what it costs per bag/sack as different food has different feeding recommendations and the more "expensive" food you normally feed less so it really all evens out .

hmc

My pup is on skinners field and trial puppy food ,I have to mix a spoon of wet in and dampen it for him to eat it
The 10 yr collie has had chudleys through the ranges all his life and now on senior,he's perfect health but just wondered if skinners senior was better for him now he's "older" should I start any supplements, he wears a bio flow collar
Also do senior dogs "need" senior food?

dawnie1972

topsales wrote: »

Can't find it stocked online or locally though..

http://uk.edenpetfoods.com/

rubytuesday

Rev wrote: »

All dog food has to be nutritionally complete if it has complete on the label. Ie is has all the vitamins etc that are needed.

But a McDonald's and a steak both have protein. Doesn't mean they're the same and equally as good.

Any food you buy that says complete will be just that. As for them all being as good ad each other that couldn't be further from the truth. Bakers is like a McDonald's. Orijen is like a feast prepared by Heston Blumenthal. Both will have carbs, protein, veg etc.

I know very few have Orijen cash. Was just using it as an example. Arden grange is a great mid range food. Burns is pure, as in no crap in it but its also 60%+ rice. And very expensive for what it is.

Well the nutritionist said it was just as good so I would be interested to find out what it is.

Doggie got fed up with Arden Grange so I changed to Burns as I believe it's supposed to be a bit more ethically made - get it from Amazon on Subscribe and Save (I think - brain's gone) - still got a huge sack of Arden Grange left over so will need to go back to that at some point but hopefully the enthusiasm will be back. I also add Yumega for a skin condition and that helps the food go down.