Feeding your working Dog

[neilo]

Chudleys Working Crunch in varying quantities, with a can of Gelert Country Choice between them (one gets most of it, another gets about 3 chunks as a taster, and the old lady mostly gets the jelly out of the bottom).
All seem happy on it, which is the important thing as far as I’m concerned.

 

[It was already broken.]

Two Labs on Chappie biscuits. One Lab on Chappie tinned meat. Cocker on mix of Chappie biscuits and tinned meat. Collie on tinned Chappie. Old Border Terrier house pet on tinned Chappie. All get bits of lame ewes/Muntjac/Chinese Water Deer as available. All my collies seem to have been picky so it is what they will eat rather than just sit and guard. Labs have never been fussy but some foods unsettle one dogs stomach which is why I have found tinned food seems better for him.

 

[TripleSix]

Meat pies, pasties and sausage rolls from the local bakery.
The stuff that would be going in the skip.

They do real well on it

 

[TexelBen]

Mad mine on dr John's gold in winter and silver in summer, they did nowt but poop! Changed them onto Skinner's field and trail, they look better for it and don't poop as much. It made me wonder how much good they were getting out of it if so much was getting pooped out?

 

[JD-Kid]

cull ewes and rams

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

Local own brand chicken & rice, with milk & raw eggs (terriers & hounds)

 

[twizzel]

Mad mine on dr John's gold in winter and silver in summer, they did nowt but poop! Changed them onto Skinner's field and trail, they look better for it and don't poop as much. It made me wonder how much good they were getting out of it if so much was getting pooped out?

All to do with the amount of cereals and fillers in the food. Meat (not the derivatives...) is digestable, cereals and rice aren't. So higher cereals and rice content will go straight through them. Grain free food will reduce the amount of times they poo. Cheaper foods with more cereals than meat will mean the dog has to eat more to get any goodness out of the food. Generally the higher the meat content and higher the price the better the food is and the less you need to feed. Our spaniels thrive on Millie's Wolfheart as someone mentioned earlier on in this thread.

 

[tinsheet]

Seasonally fed from rabbits to pheasants,deer. afterbirth if the wildlife doesn't get it first , lambing calving out doors! Calf dung seems to be a treat!
Look well on it.

 

[Woolless]

Beta active/working dog, keep it simple. Aldi marrowbone rolls as a titbit.

 

[Spartacus]

At the moment on csj, about to have a change to something called trophy pet foods, slightly more expensive but hopefully better stuff and less to feed and less coming out the other end.... worth a try at least!

 

[ajcc]

2 bags of vitamin active mixed with 1 bag vitamin original. Scoop each in bit warm water plus any house scraps. Raw meat no bone about once fortnight either mutton or venison.

 

[Oldshep]

Chudleys working crunch, have fed my collies on it for years, work well and took good on it. Managed to get a good discount at my local Mole Valley store.

 

[hendrebc]

Mine on csj now but have tried most foods one dog is very fussy and goes off food after a few months so have to change. Retired man from the village has adopted my dogs and comes up to feed them with food a cat shelter has been donated and isnt suitable for cats every few days saves me a fortune on feed
Now the weather is cooling i have a few culls i cant sell for them a joint ill lamb, ewe that broke its leg those kinds of things. They never do better than they do on those so all dog food must have a lot of in it

 

[thatlldaespot]

I tried CSJ a while ago for my collie, and she loved it to start with, then went right off it. And she was a complete hoover of a dog, would eat anything at all. So I stopped buying it, but was I just unlucky to get a duff bag there? It looked a good quality food at a sensible price and I always like to support small businesses - this seemed to be a good option. I'm feeding Sainsburys own brand complete dog food now, plus meat scraps, to the current collie and she's fine on that.