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Old 10-30-2009, 02:10 PM
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Based on the ingredients below would you feed this food to your dog?. If so why would you and if not then why not? For those raw feeders out their I am not looking for your opinions because you can't compare raw to processed. They are two totally different fields.


Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Whole Ground Barley, Whole Ground Brown Rice, Oatmeal, Whole Potatoes, Tomato Pomace (natural source of Lycopene), Fish Meal, Chicken Fat (preserved with Natural Mixed Tocopherols), Natural Chicken Flavor, Whole Carrots, Whole Sweet Potatoes, Flaxseed, Alfalfa Meal, Barley Grass, Dried Parsley, Kelp Meal, Blueberries, Cranberries, Taurine, L-Carnitine, L-Lysine, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Green Tea Extract, Turmeric, Garlic, Sunflower Oil (natural source of Omega 6 Fatty Acids), Herring Oil (natural source of Omega 3 Fatty Acids), Dried Chicory Root, Black Malted Barley, Oil of Rosemary, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin C, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Beta Carotene, Calcium Ascorbate (source of Vitamin C), Vitamin B12, Niacin (Vitamin B3), Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B5), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Folic Acid, Biotin, Choline Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Zinc Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Zinc), Iron Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Iron),Copper Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Copper), Manganese Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Manganese), Potassium Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Potassium), Cobalt Proteinate (source of Chelated Cobalt), Potassium Chloride, Sodium Selenite, Salt, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bacillus subtilis, Bifidobacterium thermophilum, Bifidobacterium longum, Enterococcus faecium.
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:16 PM
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My answer to that would be that it depends on the price, what I can afford, and what is avail to me.

If that's like $50 for 30lbs than no I wouldn't. If it's more on par with Kirkland at $23 for 40lbs and I couldn't afford to spend any more on food.... than yeah I might.

However, that being said... the Kirkland Chicken and Rice ingredients are a bit better(JMO).

So I guess in the end.... no I personally wouldn't feed that to my dog... but at least the first 2 ingredients are meats... not corn....
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:18 PM
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I would feed it. Its very similar to what I am feeding now. I like the fact that there is no corn, no wheat no soy and no by-products. Everything in it would agree with my dogs.
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:34 PM
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A lot of grain for me but at least it's not corn and wheat. I feed raw but I do use kibble once a week or so and on days when I'm pressed for time and can't prepare their normal meals.
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I would feed it. Its very similar to what I am feeding now. I like the fact that there is no corn, no wheat no soy and no by-products. Everything in it would agree with my dogs.
What is it that you are feeding to your dogs now?
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Old 10-30-2009, 03:23 PM
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I might feed it if I had a dog who did well on a diet that includes grains. It is a little grain heavy, but otherwise looks good, IMO.
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Old 10-30-2009, 03:50 PM
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Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Whole Ground Barley, Whole Ground Brown Rice, Oatmeal, Whole Potatoes, Tomato Pomace (natural source of Lycopene), Fish Meal,
These are your main ingredients. I have fed kibble (and would do so for the convience factor except the whippets won't eat kibble). Very grain heavy for my tastes. If it was cheap and I needed to save some cash I might feed it short term. Its not horrid, but its not good either.
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Old 10-30-2009, 05:19 PM
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it sure does have alot of grain. and the fish meal might contain ethoxiquin (people think it causes cancer.)
companies do not have to list ethoxiquin because THEY do not add it to the food. where the fish came from adds it
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Old 10-30-2009, 05:50 PM
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Nope. Caleb's on a grain free diet.
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Old 10-30-2009, 07:37 PM
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I feel like i should know that food...

It's decent. Like everyone has said, it's pretty heavy on the grains and I would like to see a named fish source instead of just the generic but it's not something that would cause me to run for the hills.
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