What are you feeding your dogs?

[Magik22]

Just wanting to find out what other people are feeding their working dogs? I’ve been buying dog biscuits and tins from local ag merchant but it’s getting quite expensive and the biscuits are full of rubbish. Looking to find an alternative that’s less costly and better quality? Thanks

 

[Jerry]

Just wanting to find out what other people are feeding their working dogs? I’ve been buying dog biscuits and tins from local ag merchant but it’s getting quite expensive and the biscuits are full of rubbish. Looking to find an alternative that’s less costly and better quality? Thanks

been using Skinners for years for couple dogs.

Various options and recipes for all ages and activity levels of dogs

 

[Shughie McFee]

ramblers

 

[farmerm]

The meat bags that arrive in untaxed Subaru's and dodgy transit vans....

 

[Goweresque]

You're asking for a bit much for better quality AND lower price........

 

[tinsheet]

Raw pheasant, this time of year.

 

[TripleSix]

Waste meat pies, sausage rolls etc from the local bakery.
FOC

Dogs do really well on them, got two retired collies here at 15 yrs old, still trotting around the yard.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

Just changed onto Dr John's Silver a month ago and the change is noticeable, with coats looking better and more 'bounce'.

Most bagged food is filled out with cereals

 

[Boysground]

A couple of labs either picking up or shooting through the season. Have always used skinners. They are very helpful if you call for advice.

bg

 

[BobbySusie]

Have a German Shepard Bitch and a working Collie cross.
They have been on raw mince since we got them, I get it from butcher, its made from beef and lamb hearts, bit of trimmings, kidney and a small bit of liver. I feed that with some soaked oats for fibre.

Our German shepard had serious digestive issues when we got her, and shes been right as rain since. If she eats dried food or bones its a surgery job.

Works out at €1 a day for the two dogs. We don't overfeed them either which is as bad as underfeeding them.

Fed once a day.

 

[som farmer]

dr johns for decades. Do have a friend who skins, and freezes, all his dead lambs, at lambing, to feed his dogs all year, or that's what he puts in his farm assurance...…… his nfsc bill is very low.

 

[Exfarmer]

Have a German Shepard Bitch and a working Collie cross.
They have been on raw mince since we got them, I get it from butcher, its made from beef and lamb hearts, bit of trimmings, kidney and a small bit of liver. I feed that with some soaked oats for fibre.

Our German shepard had serious digestive issues when we got her, and shes been right as rain since. If she eats dried food or bones its a surgery job.

Works out at €1 a day for the two dogs. We don't overfeed them either which is as bad as underfeeding them.

Fed once a day.

This is absolutely the way to spread a wide range of diseases , some of which can have serious repercussions for dogs, humans, livestock and wildlife.
This can be salmonella, Ecoli, echinococcocus, a whole raft of worms, tapeworms, hydatid worms through to TB .
Would you happily eat off cuts raw, neither should your dog

 

[JP1]

A couple of labs either picking up or shooting through the season. Have always used skinners. They are very helpful if you call for advice.

bg

Yes they are a good company and very helpful

 

[BobbySusie]

This is absolutely the way to spread a wide range of diseases , some of which can have serious repercussions for dogs, humans, livestock and wildlife.
This can be salmonella, Ecoli, echinococcocus, a whole raft of worms, tapeworms, hydatid worms through to TB .
Would you happily eat off cuts raw, neither should your dog

Dogs

This is absolutely the way to spread a wide range of diseases , some of which can have serious repercussions for dogs, humans, livestock and wildlife.
This can be salmonella, Ecoli, echinococcocus, a whole raft of worms, tapeworms, hydatid worms through to TB .
Would you happily eat off cuts raw, neither should your dog

I have eaten steak hache which is raw.
Dogs have different salivary enzymes to use, which kill bacteria, in addition the stomach acid ib a dog has a ph of 7.3. thats enough to kill bacteria etc.

Its only recently that dogs have been fed processed shite food. Its natural for a canine to eat raw meat.

I'm f**ked if the dogs spread TB, as they roll in badger sh!t any chance they get.

 

[Chasingmytail]

James Welbeloved Fish and rice seen good results in our old Jack Russell on the stiffness. Like the stuff. Low cereral. Other than that you can try CSJ.

 

[Gong Farmer]

Ours aren't working but food choice is dictated by whatever doesn't cause dreadful flatulence in the sitting room of an evening.

 

[Clive]

Just wanting to find out what other people are feeding their working dogs?

vegans


(Joke !)

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

in addition the stomach acid in a dog has a ph of 7.3. thats enough to kill bacteria etc.

You might want to re-calibrate your litmus paper.

Just because something is natural, it doesn't mean it is safe.

Being eaten by a bear or being struck by lightning are both perfectly natural.

 

[Exfarmer]

Dogs


I have eaten steak hache which is raw.
Dogs have different salivary enzymes to use, which kill bacteria, in addition the stomach acid ib a dog has a ph of 7.3. thats enough to kill bacteria etc.

Its only recently that dogs have been fed processed shite food. Its natural for a canine to eat raw meat.

I'm fudgeed if the dogs spread TB, as they roll in badger sh!t any chance they get.

i should bone up on your chemistry and biology before posting such rubbish. It is a fact that it is the natural cycle for many diseases that there are alternate hosts, this is especially true of worms.
many speciesof worm escape from the gut and form cysts in all parts of the body, including the brain. These cysts wait for a carnivore to eat them , so the cycle continues.
meat prepared for steak tartare must be selected so their are no cysts, this should be done by chopping finely, not chucking in a large mincer.

ps if you were correct that a dogs stomach is 7.3 ph , you will find that that is very marginally alkaline!
however you are not, fasting it is similar to a fasting humans at about 1.5 during digestion it will go to 3ph marginally lower than humans3.5, this is not low enough to kill all bacteria and viruses.

 

[Dry Rot]

Dogs


I have eaten steak hache which is raw.
Dogs have different salivary enzymes to use, which kill bacteria, in addition the stomach acid ib a dog has a ph of 7.3. thats enough to kill bacteria etc.

Its only recently that dogs have been fed processed shite food. Its natural for a canine to eat raw meat.

I'm fudgeed if the dogs spread TB, as they roll in badger sh!t any chance they get.

I penned a similar post but deleted it! Personally, my choice is a nice piece of stinky cheese.

I was skinning fallen stock for hounds at the age of 15 and that was 65 years and a LOT of dogs ago. One year there was grass sickness and we got so much horse meat it was stacked up like logs and moving with maggots. No deep freezers back then. But we had the best season ever and the dogs loved that meat and looked well on it.

If a dog (or a fox) has more than it can eat, it digs a hole and buries it, then digs it up later when it's stinking.

Recently, there has been a myxy epidemic here and the dogs have been picking up dead rabbits. Some of these are pulled out of the ditches and half decomposed. The dogs love them and look well on them. I am just careful not to let them lick my face!

Over several decades I have fed beef tripe, sheep tripe, sheep heads, thrapples (cattle windpipes), pigs' plucks (lungs, etc), salmon trimmings, seals, herring, poultry trimmings, and probably a lot more I have forgotten about. I also knew a canine behaviourist who was employed by one of the major pet food manufacturers to formulate dog food that was palatable but non-fattening so dogs would eat more of it and owners buy more. And a game dealer who assured me there was no more than a teaspoonful of rabbit in a tin of "rabbit" cat food, the rest was cereal and soya. I could go on. Now I feed dry food out of a bag because I've got old and lazy, but I feel guilty doing it and the dogs don't look as well as I know they should. Just please don't tell me it's better for them because that just makes you a bigger liar than those who sell the stuff.