Highest quality working dog food

[nosmokenopoke]

One of the working collies I have is very thin, what have people found to give the best results of putting condition on a working dog? Tia

 

[le bon paysan]

One of the working collies I have is very thin, what have people found to give the best results of putting condition on a working dog? Tia

Switched my bitch to Eukanuba.
Different dog now.

 

[primmiemoo]

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.

 

[nosmokenopoke]

I’ve bought a medium bag of eukanuba. He’s been on local working dog mix with a tin of meat each day. So will see if it makes any difference

 

[yellowbelly]

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.

edit.
This stuff.......

 

[Fellstoflats]

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]

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.

 

[toquark]

Switched our dogs to eukanuba a couple of years ago, I noticed a big difference in them.

 

[Al R]

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!

 

[tinsheet]

Pheasant, rabbit, lamb/mutton all locally sourced, virtually no food miles.

 

[le bon paysan]

I’ve bought a medium bag of eukanuba. He’s been on local working dog mix with a tin of meat each day. So will see if it makes any difference

Should add I give a spoonful of tinned meat as well as the Eukanuba and a mug of hot water to soak for some minutes.

 

[Manney]

We feed ours Dr Johns Titanium https://www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk/dog-food-reviews/0163/dr-john-titanium

 

[Gormers]

Wuffit….. Active plus salmon …from Clitheroe

 

[idgni]

Couldn't keep flesh on my 18mth old collie, Vet told me to put her back onto Puppy nuts, she's shining now

 

[Tim W]

cull ewes

 

[Shavings man]

Not a working dog but our doberman bless her was brought up on eukanuba and chicken looked a million dollars.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Best bitch here was always like a rake and Skinner's Field and Trial Muesli turned her round. As she's got older they're all on wynnstay wynngold

 

[Wood field]

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

 

[nosmokenopoke]

Thanks I tried csj as an earlier person said, has changed my dog!

 

[Steve welder]

I'm lucky enough to still be able to get tripe from slaughterhouse. Best of feeding