dog food

Hows it going folks? I was talking to someone in the chat earlier today and we got to talking about dog foods.....I feed diamond premium.....he feeds ole roy.....he says it compares to pro plan, diamond, eukanuba etc etc.....my question is what do YOU feed.....and whats your opinions on Ole Roy and Diamond?

 

I go back and forth between feeding Pro Plan and Nutro and raw. I used to feed Diamond but was not happy with the coats on my dogs. The other food you listed isn't even in my vocabulary and wouldn't feed it to a rodent. Cheaper is not always better. I will never ever even consider feeding Science Diet, Eukanuba, Iams and especially not Ole Roy. IMO they are crap.

 

I have found nothing to be wrong with ol roy from walmarts for feeding the dogs on the chain.

 

To each their own. I prefer not to feed mine the cheap stuff. I don't eat cheaply so why should my dogs? The guy I bought Blaze from has around 21 dogs on his yard and he feeds Nutro as well. Regardless of if my dog lives on a chain, in a dog run or in my house I feed what I feel is best for them As I said, to each their own.

 

there has been a few times i have ran out of food and was low on cash and had to buy a bag of old roy out of pure desperation just to fill some bellys. in my opinion it is garbage and dont recamend it but that is my experience with that brand. i like diamond, chicken soup brand, chicken quaters and any raw beef, deer meat i can get. but when the times comes were money is thin i can always hit up tractor supply and buy a bag of retriever which works good for me when i am in a pinch. 50lbs for 12 bucks and it isnt that bad for a fill in feed. i always try to keep a bag around at the house just incase of a unexpected shortage of cash. it never gave my dogs the runs or anything. but old roy never seemed to be a good solution for me. caused to much diareha and my dogs just never seem to look as good as compaed to when i was feeding my choice of food. maybe it has to do with the good diet i usually feed and then stripping back to what it had. maybe dogs that become acustom to it do fine but i didnt like it
MMK

 

With me it isnt a matter of money or what I eat opposed to what my dogs eat that has nothing to do with it. It is simply that my dogs do well on it and I use the brown bag not the red bag.

 

i used the same didnt like it a bit, but i think it had more to do with what they were on previously than the food itself.
MMK

 

I can agree with the fact that anytime you change a dogs diet there will be an adjustment period.

 

true i expect stool change for a short time but never had it carry on for 2 weeks till my next pay till i could afford to get them back on the proper diet. i just never had good experience witht he brand all together. but if it is working dont fix it. it just never worked for me
MMK

 

We are feeding Diamond in the green bag and are happy with it as far as kibble goes. I prefer the BARF diet overall, but can't do that right now. As far as Ol Roy, I have fed it when we were broke off our asses...but would not try to normally feed it. Corn has no real value to a dog, and thats basically what Ol Roy is...
BB

 

I was using the maxxium nutrition for my dogs for a few months. It did fine for them while I wasn't working them. I've switched back to Nutro Max now and the difference it makes is unreal. I'm a big fan of the nutro max and natural choice dog foods. It does really well for all my dogs.

PGK

 

Right now I am using Nutro max. It seems to be working good for my dogs. If you look at the ingediants for Ole Roy its all corn meal and other crap that the dogs can't digest well. I wouldn't feed that junk to my dogs personally but , whatever floats your boat.

 

We use Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul which is made by Diamonds.

http://www.chickensoupforthepetloverssoul.com/ingredients.html

We've had great results with this kibble, so that's what we are going to be sticking with. We have tried many different kibble brands out there, and this brand has given us the best results. I've also heard very good things about Wellness, although have never tried it.

 

chicken soup brand is real good in my opinion. u will get good results with it but it ISNT CHEAP FOOD. but well worth it in the end. if i had the money i personally would feed nothing but fresh greens and raw chicken quaters and pet tab suppliments. but that diet for a maintence feed would drian a bank acount very quickly.
MMK

 

I have used 'Ol Roy high energy even when putting one through keep. just have found better success using a mixture between Diamond High Energy and Diamond Premium Adult for all applications.Nothing wrong with 'Ol Roy though perfectly fine for dogs on the chain>

 

I think Ol Roy makes your dogs crap a whole lot more. Never have liked it. The only food where you get the most out of your dog is Black Diamond.

If a dog aint training I try to keep them on a lamb & rice suppliment food.

 

I've heard that the chicken Soup food is really good. I thought about trying it, but i really like nutro... if it's not broken don't fix it, right?!?!

Right now I feeding my dogs: kibble (nutro max), chicken liver/chopped chicken, and green beans on sun, wed, and fri. Kibble, groung beef/chopped beef, and rice on mon, thurs. kibble only on tues and fri. I give them pet tabs, eggs, and brewers yeast tabs too, but that's pretty much how I feed them ((getting them ready for shows and such)).
PGK

 

We alternate with BARF/Kibble, because a full time BARF diet is very time consuming (for us anyway). However, I will say that BARF is the way to go!! Naw mmk, couldn’t afford 50 dogs on Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul..one of the reasons we try to keep a moderately small yard.

 

i guess it depends on what youy have around for the barf diet....i live in the same town as the worlds 2nd largest poultry producer in the world(pilgrims pride) and i could get necks and backs from them for $.16 a pound.....real cheap.....cheaper than diamond kibble.....but like was stated it was pretty time consuming and hassle....overall though theres NOTHING better than a good barf diet

 

what about chicken soup for the dog lovers soul is that any good