Raw or Commercial

How do you feed your dog? What type of diet do you prefer your dogs to be on? A raw diet or do you like to feed commercial dog feed?

 

The raw diet all the way!!! Unfortunately, I can't feed it at this time, so we are feeding Diamond, I'll be going back to the raw diet this fall tho...
BB

 

Raw is better, commercial is easier......So I too feed Diamond Green bag

 

i just changed my dogs food to NUTRO ULTRA. does anyone know anything about this brand?

 

I have been feeding Canidae for a little over 5 years now. And give them raw chicken ¼’s a couple of time a week. The chicken is mostly just a treat. The dogs do very well on the Canidae alone. They all feel like silk when petted even though their chain spots are on sand.


Before switching to Canidae I was feeding Maximum Nutrition. It was a decent food for the price. I tried Diamond Green back after Maximum Nutrition and the dogs coat went to sh!t in a hurry. It did not take 4 weeks to see a major decrease in over all health and vitality on the dogs from the Max to Diamond switch. Maybe it was just my dogs (Mayday bloodline) but I would never feed Diamond green bag again.


The Maximum Nutrition has better ingredients wise than Diamond if my memory is right. But nether of them can compare to the results I have had and continue to have with Canidae. It is a difference in night and day for the dogs and the price is not much different actually I’m paying about $1.00 more for Canidae than Max. Nutrition.

 

be careful when it comes to raw food, according to some sled owners in the yukon, you should only feed raw fish not chicken or beef or pork, it has bacteria on it that could harm on the long run a digestive system. some say they have feed raw meat for a time but, maybe they have just been fortunate not to have the bacteria......

 

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I feed SportMIX.. It has a high protein ratio in it, and is made with chicken as number 1 ingrediant... with alot of fish oil/fish meal as well... I will sumpliment in the winter with fish, (tuna is good) so they have the extra energy to get warm... Raw diet can be tricky.. you dont want to over do it, and you hafta supliment with fruits and vegis, and a carb, like rice... I like my SportMIX... they are beutiful on it... they build nice, hard muscle on it, and their coats are "smooth as silk".... It is "High Energy" so they don't get drug down when I am working them everyday... I have used it for quite a few years now, and wouldnt switch... I tried the other, more expensive stuff, but it turned into a hole in the pocket... The SportMIX is just as good, but rather cheep... $17/50#....​

Take a look at my dogs pic!! They are gorgeous!!​

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This is wut I feed...​

http://www.sportmix.com/HIGH_E~1.HTM​

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I use commercial feed. Never really tried the raw diet but I make sure they have some real meat in their diet since that's what dogs used to eat centuries ago. I've tried various foods and have had some really bad results with them. The one they are on now (Exceed) is a 30/20 ratio and less clean up.

 

nutro maxx

 

GrChPitBitch,



Thanks for the link to SportMix. I’m glad you like it and have done well with it. It doesn’t compare to Canidae or other premium dog foods (Chicken Soup, Martin’s K-9, etc..) though.



First ten ingredients of Canidae:



Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Brown Rice, White Rice, Lamb Meal, Chicken Fat, (preserved with mixed Tocopherols and Ascorbic Acid), Menhaden Fish Meal, Flax Seed, Sun Cured Alfalfa Meal, Sunflower Oil, ect.



You will notice 4 meat sources and 3 fat/oil sources in the first 10 ingredients. Canidae also provides the necessary probiotics, fermentation products, and added digestive enzymes to help your canine fully-utilize the ration. All human grade ingredients.



First ten ingredients of SportsMix High Energy:



Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Yellow Corn, Meat Meal, Ground Wheat, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of natural Vitamin E), Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken & Liver Digest, Fish Meal, Flaxseed, Salt, etc.



That right there says it all. You’re mistaken on the first ingredient (not chicken) but a by-product. I’ll break it all down for everybody that may or may not know what to look for in dog food using SportsMix:



Chicken By-Products (Made up of ground, slaughtered poultry, such as undeveloped eggs, necks, feet, and intestines)

Ground Yellow Corn (The nutrients in corn is far less available than those in rice)

Meat Meal (Finally a meat source)

Ground Wheat (The availability of nutrients for wheat, beans, and oats is poor)

Chicken Fat (finally a Fat/oil source)

Dried Belt Pulp (Stool hardener to make up for the crappy ingredients)

Chicken & Liver Digest (sh!t)

Fish Meal (good but to far down)

Salt (why?)



Just a little food for thought for everyone, maybe some will sit down and analyze the feed. If a premium dog food cost too much (down size your yard)! As the saying goes “you are what you eat” and so are your dogs.

 

Dogs digestive tracks are better than you think, and they do fine on chicken and beef. The only meat we avoid is Pork. Fish is great as its high in the Omegas. When we feed the Barf diet, we feed Mon-Fri fresh meat, Sat a slop of veggies and fish, and fast on Sundays. The BARF diet puts them back to a natural diet that they would eat in the wild, and I've never seen my dogs looking as good as when they are on the BARF diet. The meat that we commonly use here is deer meat, which also is the highest in Natural Creatine, just make sure, like always, that your dogs have plenty of fresh water...
BB

 

Hey BBK do you know where I could probably order some deer meat. I want some for myself too LOL!! I would love to feed some of that game meat to my dog. Very lean and it tastes good too.

 

LOL out here in the woods at my place...

I get my deer meat from a butcher, get all his scraps everyday when I do the BARF diet...
BB

 

I know that they are in the woods, but do you know any companies that maybe distribute the meat and sell it in bulk?

 

Nope sure don't...
What we get, we get from here locally and fresh, no distributor that I know of...
BB

 

why dont u go hunt, get all the deer u want?????

 

Dude if I had the time or lived in an area where I could hunt I would. But I don't, so therfore I'm looking for a distributor. Everybody on here doesn't live in the sticks.

 

lol...................

 

hunting season is right around the corner an i'll have my deep freezer stocked.