Best cheap dog food.

crewchf · Post by **crewchf** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:09 pm

If you go on the Eukanuba website it tells you to feed your dog like it's a carnivor. They say meat protein is better for your dog than plant protein. Thats why the first ingredient in their Premium Performance is chicken and the second is chicken meal, now I know it ain't cheap, a buck a pound here in the Metro Atlanta area. It takes high protein for our hounds to run rabbits all day (or night) plus Euk says high protein feed helps them fend off injuries which we all deal with!! Heck I just talked myself into putting mine back on the Euk, going to give the Purina Salmon stuff away!!!!!!

Crew Chief

Honey Pot Hounds · Post by **Honey Pot Hounds** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:51 pm

I've been feeding Euk Performance (hey, it even has a decent Beagle on the bag!) and my guys are doing well on it. I am not as happy with the ingredient list as I was with Canidae and Wellness...too much by-product, corn & wheat. The corn does shine up the coat nice though. I will probably feed it for a few more months anyway...we always did give our horses more corn in the winter as it helps keep them warm, so maybe it's good for the dogs too.

SilverZuk · Post by **SilverZuk** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:26 pm

While we are talking about feeding like a carnivore, have any of you heard of the "Bones And Raw Food" feed programs.
No Kidding it goes by the name "BARF". I have read about it, but never known anyone to try it on a hunting dog (though sled dogs pretty much live off of bones and raw food).

Here is a website:
http://www.barfworld.com/

It is an interesting concept but I don't buy it.
Coyotes and other wild dogs live on a varied diet (meat and plant matter). I would suspect for our hounds to be healthy they need a varied diet based on protein and omega fatty acids.

The question you have to ask is will the BARF diet make our hounds any healthier or perform any better than what they do now. I doubt they would be healthier and any performance increase would be marginal.
I am sure feeding bones and raw meat would not be easy or cheap unless you owned a slaughter house.

ringtail · Post by **ringtail** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:41 pm

i feed ultra,,,,,24/14 its 11 bucks a bag,,,,,,

TC · Post by TC » Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:10 pm

Well We have tried em all Folks you know the High end Foods like Euk, pedigree, Iams And all i can say is POOP POOP And More POOP their coats suffered Dry Flacky Skin intestinal infections Weak Stomach ect NEVER again the EUK all most put an end to one of ours before the vet figured out waht it was...
We went to the Diamond lamb and Rice and mixed it woth the Performance during Runnin season and Winter never ANY problems at all.
Besides I really Didnt like thier Support Of Certain Groups!!!!!
Look at the following Thresad and tell me what you think on the comparisons of the three feeds And later I will tell ya what thay are

http://americanbeagler.huntingboards.co ... hp?t=23929

jlboomer · Post by **jlboomer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:11 pm

Kybeagler where i get the $12 a bag purina well at walmart using the rebate checks and my discount and you figure up how many bags it takes to get the checks it comes out to $12 a bag. aslo let me tell you this theres a vet in this area been telling people to feed to ol roy he reccomends it over purina. as far as the turbo being cheap garbage at $7.50 a bag i know coon hunters that have feed it for more than 10yrs and no problems. i tried sport mix once liked it but my feed store quit handling it if anyone knows where i can buy it around london or corbin ky let me know please.

CAINCUTTER · Post by **CAINCUTTER** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:02 pm

I have been using Tops Dog Food for years. My dogs do well on it and it only cost from $10 to $12 per 50 lb bag... For more info, check my web site... http://www.geocities.com/pawpawskennels ... tml?200620

tiffinis · Post by **tiffinis** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:07 pm

I am a 3rd generation dog breeder. I have seen way too many cases of garbage in garbage out. You want a dog to perform well and stay healthy you need to feed good food. I doesnt have to Euk, IAM has gone WAY down hill since it was bought out. I feed Sensible Choice Chicken by Canin Royale and Rice to my Labs and to my beagles. It has high quality ingredients and no garbage they dont need. NO fillers, no preservatives. They have no skin problems and shine, shine, shine. They all perform. My Big chocolate Lab eats less then 2 cups a day of it. A 40 lb bag runs $33 dollars, the company has a rebate program so every 10 bags I buy I get a bag free! A 40 lb bag lasts me two full weeks. That is feeding 265 lbs worth of K9s. Add up how much your dogs weigh, then figure it out. I have friends who breed pointers. They own a feed mill and can feed their dogs any dog food on the planet. They are the ones who turned me on to Sensible Choice, it is what they feed their own dogs.

shotgunner · Post by **shotgunner** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:35 pm

i feed cody brothers it does very well for my hounds.26/18 weight stays on good when run 6 days a week coat is very healthy.dog have plenty of engery

Beagled1 · Post by **Beagled1** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:24 pm

SilverZuk wrote:While we are talking about feeding like a carnivore, have any of you heard of the "Bones And Raw Food" feed programs.
No Kidding it goes by the name "BARF". I have read about it, but never known anyone to try it on a hunting dog (though sled dogs pretty much live off of bones and raw food).

Here is a website:
http://www.barfworld.com/

It is an interesting concept but I don't buy it.
Coyotes and other wild dogs live on a varied diet (meat and plant matter). I would suspect for our hounds to be healthy they need a varied diet based on protein and omega fatty acids.

The question you have to ask is will the BARF diet make our hounds any healthier or perform any better than what they do now. I doubt they would be healthier and any performance increase would be marginal.
I am sure feeding bones and raw meat would not be easy or cheap unless you owned a slaughter house.

Been feeding and adding raw meat, bones, pulped veggies into the diet of my hounds since 2001. My almost 4 year old bitch was raised on nothing but raw until she was a year old. I don't feed BARF anymore, rather I've gone to a prey model diet which has a more correct meat to bone ratio than the old Billinghurst BARF diets.
For a while I stopped feeding raw and went to homecooked added in with the kibble. And for a short time was on an all kibble kick, LOL.
The hounds most definitely do get a varied diet on raw! They're getting higher protein than they could ever have on any dog food, and coats grow in twice as thick as they did when I was feeding Euk Small Breed Pup 32/21. Omega fatty acids are naturally in the diet. Chicken skin, organ meats are high in Omega 6, and egg yolks, fish, cod liver oil are high in Omega 3, DHA & EPA.
Like I said, I went a long time without feeding raw meat of any kind and the difference is just unbeliveable. I only recently started feeding it again. I had one bitch who whelped a litter on Euk Puppy, got very sick and lost a good deal of weight. Her black saddle grew back in grey after she bkew her coat ..... a month later the pics I have of her she looks younger and healthier than she did a year ago. Same bitch was attacked by another dog and the muscles on her neck never healed properly. If you ran your hand down her neck, you could actually feel the twisted, knotted muscles torn apart by the other dog. Within a week of me adding raw back into her diet, new muscling actually grew in, and now the neck is completely smooth, except for one spot just under the ear.
Sometimes its expensive, sometimes I get chicken for .39 a pound

Its more time consuming than pouring kibble into a bowl. I feed kibble to keep costs down, now way I could feed raw to all the dogs here and not be in the poor house!
They are so much healthier it is almost unbeliveable.