I do not know if this subject has be raised before but what do other DH owners feed their dogs. I use a complete diet for the pups Purina Proplan Athletic with some tripe, and for the adults racing greyhound with tripe. I also feed twice a day.

We did chat on diet recently..maybe check 'health' I'm a huge fan of natural raw - for many reasons - esp for hoynds. Yrs ago divided my Borzoi kennel - half on kibble, half on raw. * went onto the raw...and loved, and coat was fab... Dr Jean Dodds has good info, as would any good holistic vet.
Good luck - Cassandra

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We are lucky over here in that we have easily accessable affordable fresh meat for the dogs. Mine have a mixture of raw chook, raw or cooked lamb or beef, plus a little bit of dry food.
Plus I also give them a tin of sardines every week, which they love, and once or twice a week they get fresh bones. I have never used much commercial food for the dogs. I don't think I could afford it.

Pam

Raw, raw, raw

houndy wrote:


Raw, Raw, Raw and more Raw !

I am curious, it seems alot of you feed raw. Great. I'm wonering though if anyone else adds anything to the raw meat though. Oils, raw fruit, veggies, vitamins,yogurt, flax?
Cassandra

I add small amount of ground up vegies including broccolli, cauliflower, pumpkin, celery, silver beet, carrot and apple, a dollop of yoghurt and once a week they get sardines in oil. They get a variety of meat, either chicken, beef and roo and rabbit, and they also get chicken necks most nights. The vegies get ground up and then frozen into portions so they are fresh each day.
Some nights they also get pasta or rice depending on what we are having for dinner.

Our Skippy is now four and a half months old , very energetic and full of mischief.
He normally has dried puppy kibble as a basic , the brand is not always the same as the bargains vary. The current ( large) bag is pedigree puppy chicken and rice. I supplement this with tinned foods , usually from the puppy ranges, just to add interest.
He also has any raw and cooked meats with any odd bits of veg that he will eat. once a week he has an egg and also white fish raw or cooked. Honey is a favourite treat and he will empty any tea mug when the opportunity arises.
I avoid feeding any processed foods, sweet stuff, bread, pasta etc.
He usually has a beef shin bone in his bed somewhere, which he knaws a lot.

I understand that he shouldnt have pork or ham and also cooked poultry / duck bones?
can any one offer advice on this and if there is anything else he shouldnt have?

Dave & Skippy

dont give him too much offal - only feed about 2x weekly maximum. Deffo no cooked bones as they can splinter. Bread (wholemeal) and pasta are good sources of carbs for your dogs. I grate cheese over their meat sometimes. Add raw eggs still in the shells, pureed veggies, sardines in oil/toamatoe sauce. I also give mine raw whole fish usually sardines and fillets of white fish usually pollack.
Try ox heart, lambs hearts, ox tongue chicken wings, turkeys necks. He will love you forever

I was surpriced that it is so many who gives the hounds raw food. Maybee it is more popular in UK than it is in Sweden.

What is offal?

Well Norbert have had some problem with his stomach and he was eaten a Swedish dry food based only in meat and rice no grain. I think this was a very good food but he has had diarrhoea most of the time. I was talking with the food manufacture and they have tried to help us, with no result. Then at tuesday I desided to change food. I liked an other food named Happy Dog, it is an German food and they have the same objective like the first but the food ingredients are a little bit different. I think I will try and go for a new shop nearly by Gerard O'Shea (if you know him) and hes wife has opened and they sell Happy Dog.

I just change food abrupt because what could be worse? And a miracle take place in one day he is just fine in the stomach. He's eat without any bribe. I am so happy and in this moment I don't give him nothing else for a while until I se that he really is ok.
Otherwise I use to give all my dogs yolk some times a week.I feed him three times a day now, he is only four month old. I think that the other food must have some ingredient wich he not tolerate.

Any way Gerard and Emily says that they are very pleased with this food, they have an Rottweiler breeding. And I hope that it will be good for Norbert too. They've talking about raw food to, and they will have it in the shop in the future. Meybee I will try it lately.

He is now having Maxi baby and when he is 6 month he will have Maxi Junior it is because he will not grow to fast.

Biggles, how much does Skippy weigh in kg? He is a little older than Norbert but I like to know if they are a bit like.

Norberts weight just in the moment are 24,8 kg.

Do you weight in kg in i UK? If not can you shange he's weight to kg?

And how high is he? I have'nt measured Norbert but I will.

Skippy is very sweet show us more pictures.

Offal is the guts and stuff like kidneys, liver, tripe, or stomach, mainly waste products.

Many thanks Houndy, I'll try and increase the meat content.
He always eats the egg shells which surprised me.
Sorry to hear about your loss and hope you get your new pup.

Dave & Skippy

A good source of info for RAW feeding is : www.ukrmb.co.uk/
They have knowledgeable people and vets to give advice on all aspects of feeding raw food to .

I also feed mostly raw/homemmade - different meats ( usually I have bison/beef/pork/turkey and some chicken and salmon - the fish always baked , the chicken at times cooked as a big stew with all kinds of nice verggies , pasta , barley a.s.o. in ) I add fresh fruit and veggies every day , as I am a vegetarian , there are lots around , also berries go into the food every so often . Our butcher makes a very nice mix for the dogs - muscle meat , a bit of offal - I buy green tripe extra as it is so good for them - , some of the fresh blood , freshly ground bonemael from the animals he butchers and extra fat . They do get fishoil when they get dryfood and they also get things like cottage cheese , joghurt ,eggs , ground flaxseed , oats , bread and other grains. Only very small portions of grains , if at all though , mostly for the puupy - all in all , the prtions are 2/3rds meat and 1/3 rd " others " .
It is nice to see , how many feed raw /homemmade - never really trusted the industrial diets , though they can be very helpful/ practical and I always want my dogs to be able to deal with them as well.

I love Skippy's brindle stripes - little tiger man

Keijke,

I weighed skippy today he is 21 KG and 60cm at the shoulder and he is 4 months 3 weeks old today.
when we got him on 31st october at 8 wks old he was 4.4kg and 29 cms.
I have found that cooked chicken helps our dogs digestion.
I quickly boil the carcass from a roast chicken and pick the meat off.
Any chicken stock from this I use as gravy on his dinner for the next day or so.
He can be a fussy eater and sometimes wont eat much one day but will want more
the next day.

Dave & Skippy

Ok good to know that Norbert is in the normal size even if he have been bad in his stomach. He is 64-67 cm it wasn't so easy to see. But he is a little bit higher at the backside. But I think that is normal or? Horses are growing in different parts and I suppose that it can be the same with big hounds. He is still eating with good appetite and the poo is in good conditions I just have to give you this picture of Norbert and Frank.

aawww....how sweet - they are lovely