spark_28
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- Location
- Western isles
Working dog food - Raw
- Thread starter spark_28
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- Location
- N.Lincs
My man always looked a bit on the lean side as a young dog.
Put him on this...
It's just what our local feed merchant stocks.
£1.50 for 400g.
He gets half a pack a day with Burgess Active as 'mixer'.
Completely changed him - he's a tad overweight if anything now
- Location
- Highland
Don't like the look of that at all. Chicken wings no way, sharp bone splinters. I stopped getting butcher bones for my dogs years ago when one of them threw up and it was full of literally needles of bone.
My young collie was a bit thin and the other one's coat was dry. We spoke to the bod at the feed store and switched to Dr John's Titanium, it is higher fat than what they were on. Excellent results for both.
Raw food is not magic, dogs don't live in the wild anymore and we can do better for them IMO. I'd just ask at the feed store, tell them what you're using, what's happening and see what they recommend. Don't need to spend a lot of money either for fancy stuff.
My young collie was a bit thin and the other one's coat was dry. We spoke to the bod at the feed store and switched to Dr John's Titanium, it is higher fat than what they were on. Excellent results for both.
Raw food is not magic, dogs don't live in the wild anymore and we can do better for them IMO. I'd just ask at the feed store, tell them what you're using, what's happening and see what they recommend. Don't need to spend a lot of money either for fancy stuff.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
We’ve been feeding ours raw since he was a pup, good results.
www.able.dog
Delivery to your home. Still frozen when it gets to Scotland.
Able® Raw Dog Food — Sensible, precise nutrition.
Nutritionally precise raw dog food sold in convenient meal-size portions and 4–5kg freezer boxes. Over 700 pieces of nutritional data analysed to ensure every one of your dog's complex requirements are met.
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Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
If you wanted to try raw food, is there not an old knacker ewe to try, or some cheap venison locally.
I have my vitch on Beta working dog dry food plus a few scraps and odds and ends. She looks fine on that.
- Location
- High Weald AONB
Mine has been on a complete raw food for over 4 years now, and has never looked back. She has some baked biscuits as well, but no kibble or extruded food. On the very rare occasion she is off her food, she gets 24 hours on fish or chicken and rice, then is usually fine and back on the raw. She is fed approx 2% of bodyweight daily, which is fine for her as a non working dog.
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Ours all on raw, it’s expensive but one of ours was in a state on dried food, scours , loss of weight etc , cost a fortune at vet then we tried raw and she changed overnight, all the dogs have been on it since , one upside apart from health is there’s little poo to pick up!
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Does nobody feed out of the abattoir or the knackery any more?
is less and easier to deal with.- Location
- High Weald AONB
Always said I would rather spend money on decent food and have a healthy dog, than buy cheap food and spend the difference (or more) at the vets. Also I have seen reports that dogs life expectancy has gone down over the past 40 or 50 years and they are attributing it in large part to poor quality food. A lot of the cheaper dry food is the equivalent of ultra high processed junk food for humans.
Raw bones dont splinter
Looks good and good price
- Location
- North Yorkshire
We feed Dougies raw to 1 terrier after we’ve gone through the process of elimination that wheat is causing him itchy dry skin. Turns out chicken also bothers him so get a box with no chicken either. We buy the “80% meat 10% bone 10% offal” cubes. Works out at just under a quid a day. Will be putting a 6 month old on to it as well once he’s finished the current dry food
ollie989898
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Breaking news just in. If you're feeding your dog raw meat prepare for repeated bouts of giardia infection and profuse diarrhoea when you invariably contract it from your dog and continually re-infect yourself. Still, think of the weight loss.
It's also a top-notch way of breeding some antibiotic resistant bacteria and colonising yourself with it.
Poor dog (or cat) is also repeatedly dosing the environment with resistant bugs or giardia every time they go to the loo, too. Ideal for the grandkids coming to play in the garden. And lastly, big protip: freezing food does not kill bacteria.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
academic.oup.com
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It's also a top-notch way of breeding some antibiotic resistant bacteria and colonising yourself with it.
Poor dog (or cat) is also repeatedly dosing the environment with resistant bugs or giardia every time they go to the loo, too. Ideal for the grandkids coming to play in the garden. And lastly, big protip: freezing food does not kill bacteria.
UK dogs eating raw meat diets have higher risk of Salmonella and antimicrobial‐resistant Escherichia coli faecal carriage
To compare detection of Salmonella species and antimicrobial‐resistant Escherichia coli in the faeces of dogs eating raw meat or non‐raw diets and examine risk factors for their carriage.Canine faecal samples (raw fed n=114; non‐raw ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Molecular ecology and risk factors for third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli carriage by dogs living in urban and nearby rural settings
AbstractObjectives. To compare faecal third-generation cephalosporin-resistant (3GC-R) Escherichia coli isolates from dogs living in a city and in a rural
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Raw meat based diet (RMBD) for household pets as potential door opener to parasitic load of domestic and urban environment. Revival of understated zoonotic hazards? A review
RMBD (acronym of Raw Meat Based Diet) and BARF diets (acronym for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones and Raw Food) account dietary regimens based on raw ingredients (including raw meat), popular in pet feeding. Animal tissues and organs as well ...
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Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
Second one of late who recommends Dr Johns
- Location
- Devon
For those of us who can't be bothered to read all those links, please explain why raw dog food breeds ab resistant bacteria?Breaking news just in. If you're feeding your dog raw meat prepare for repeated bouts of giardia infection and profuse diarrhoea when you invariably contract it from your dog and continually re-infect yourself. Still, think of the weight loss.
It's also a top-notch way of breeding some antibiotic resistant bacteria and colonising yourself with it.
Poor dog (or cat) is also repeatedly dosing the environment with resistant bugs or giardia every time they go to the loo, too. Ideal for the grandkids coming to play in the garden. And lastly, big protip: freezing food does not kill bacteria.
UK dogs eating raw meat diets have higher risk of Salmonella and antimicrobial‐resistant Escherichia coli faecal carriage
To compare detection of Salmonella species and antimicrobial‐resistant Escherichia coli in the faeces of dogs eating raw meat or non‐raw diets and examine risk factors for their carriage.Canine faecal samples (raw fed n=114; non‐raw ...
Molecular ecology and risk factors for third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli carriage by dogs living in urban and nearby rural settings
AbstractObjectives. To compare faecal third-generation cephalosporin-resistant (3GC-R) Escherichia coli isolates from dogs living in a city and in a rural
Raw meat based diet (RMBD) for household pets as potential door opener to parasitic load of domestic and urban environment. Revival of understated zoonotic hazards? A review
RMBD (acronym of Raw Meat Based Diet) and BARF diets (acronym for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones and Raw Food) account dietary regimens based on raw ingredients (including raw meat), popular in pet feeding. Animal tissues and organs as well ...