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Highest quality working dog food

primmiemoo

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Location
Devon
Current collie likes to have working dog tinned meat with his "complete" mix when he's working hard. He's mixed and matched with brands. At the moment he's on Skinner's Complete Working, but was on MVF Complete Working before, and possibly Baker's complete working before then. He went thin once, because of a gum problem, so he's now on dentastix, and is back chewing his rawhide chews.
He doesn't like expensive brands. We've tried.
 

yellowbelly

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
My young dog was always a bit on the lean side and upping his complete dry food wasn't the answer (made him very loose).

He's now on 50:50 raw meat/dry mix.

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Fellstoflats

Member
Livestock Farmer
Mine are on Wynnstay's working dog food (Wynn Gold or something), but the skinny young bitch gets about a third of Hike On from CSJ to keep her topped up.

Both very happy on the Wynnstay stuff.
 

Dry Rot

Member
Livestock Farmer
The best feed of all for this is beef mesentery. That is the layer of connective tissue that surrounds the gut. I forget what they call it in the abattoir. That and raw fresh beef tripe.

I don't know if you can get sheep heads any more but boiled they are excellent. Just boil them in a pot until the skin and hair can be pulled off. We used to feed on alternate days, they are so rich, or the dogs would get too fat.

You may need to get registered with Animal Health to be allowed to feed animal by products. Modern commercial dog food is rubbish.
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Gelert Working Dog (purple bag) here, they all like it and hold condition well if not get a bit fat on it if not working much that week.
We ran out of Harringtons for the GSD a few weeks ago and she did 4 days on the Gelert Working Dog and put on weight in that time!
 

Wood field

Member
Livestock Farmer
We always used a generic dry complete, dr johns etc . One of our pups was really bad with scour’s so we tried raw meat and it transformed her overnight
Now all the dogs are on raw meat with a few biscuits
We buy it weekly in frozen blocks and leave the next days out to defrost
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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