what kind of raw do you feed Andy?

i got a question to, how do you split up raw and kibble? how much do you give of raw and how much do you give of kibbel

MY dogs get very precise measured amounts of food and it will vary according to work loads and how they do with it.

For example during the winter we feed 4 level measured cups of food each day with multivitamin, Raw egg and a few other things. The dogs get weighed every 5-7 days and a desired weight is maintained. For Rebel it was 60-61lbs during the winter, about 5lbs over what he competes at. When he is weighed if I see him falling under then he get a half a cup of food more, if he is gaining half a cup less. Believe it or not 1/2 a cup can really change their weight as to what the metabolize.

Now that the season is under way we go back to 3 cups a day and excerise. Once we have reached our target weight,(TW=weight at which the dog is leanest/strongest WITHOUT losing muscle) then I feed accordingly to maintain that weight. Rebel is currently 57lbs and that is where I am going to hold him. I can dry him out the night before a show and bring him in on the scales at 55lbs, the bottom of his class where I want him.

Here recently I have really really been conditioning the dogs so as Im weighing them now every 3 days when I began to see the weight drop some due to the increase in work, I increased the food accordingly.


As far as kibble and raw yess we do more of that as the season gets under way. I like to get them high protein sources straight from meat 2 weeks before a show I increase their protein intake considerably, usually by using raw liver, very good for them! Also you can add B-12 and B-15 but if you dont know what your doing I wouldnt give it through injections.

i have fed raw but was told not to mix it with kibble because the benefit of it wouldn't exist with kibble mixed! I feed raw because the kibble blew out the dogs coat and the other had hot spots and raw cleared it up. If your having skin issues let me know and I'll post a really good link on the raw diet and info on it.

I've recently made the switch to Diamond. I'm on about the 5th bag and I can already notice the difference and I'm pleased. They seem to feel alot better and their coats have improved both in appearance as well as "texture".

All dogs respond differently to different types of food so I'd say try a few different brands until you find one that works for you.

I usually give them a raw egg every other day and some raw steak or hamburger meat on the weekends.

I have fed many different feeds from Science Diet, Eukanuba, Pro Plan, Diamond (maintance, lamb and rice) Nutro, Cannidea, IAMS, you name it I have tried it.

Every single food that I have tried never amounted up to what Nutro has done for them. Less stools, harder stools, shinier coats, etc. I changed from Nutro to Diamond Natural Lamb and Rice and my dogs ate almost 3 times as much as what they ate of Nutro, they lost weight, they had runny stools the whole time (it never hardened), and their coats were looking horrible. I promised myself and to my dogs that I wont ever change again. I'll stick to Nutro.

I used nutro and got the opposite results, lol It's odd how we can all feed something different and come up with different results but it happens. You have to stick with what suits your dogs, everyone in the world can make recommendations, but you can only use what makes your dogs maintain the weight, energy levels, and coat appearance that is right for them. Not every dog is the same, so sometimes, if you have one dog that is off a little, you may have to change just that dogs food. Perks of owning more than one dog.

i feed kirkland lamb and rice it works well