Dry Kibble: Need Ingredient Input

Specsy

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Living in SA it is almost impossible to find an affordable grain free food. Orijen here cost about $90 for a 6kg bag. I have found a South African made food which is much more reasonably priced and appears to have no grains. The ingredients are as follows:

Dried potato, ostrich meat and bone meal, purified hemi-cellulose, salt, vitamins and minerals, approved anti-oxidant.

Now, I am not highly educated on the subject of food and I currently do not have a computer to use google (sending this message from mobile), so if possible can you tell me if this food is better for my dogs than, eukanuba, hills science diet, and royal canin (as these are the only other "premium" foods available and I cannot switch to raw)
 

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That food is on par with Science Diet at best. Potato constitutes the majority, then there's some meat but it's a meat and bone meal, so the actual meat content is lessened even further, then you have what is essentially sawdust, followed by salt...yeah. Stay far far away.

What are your dogs currently eating?
 

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They are currently on Eukanuba Lamb and Rice. My one dog however has severe skin problems which I am 100% sure is grain allergy. If I can change just her over to a grain free I will be happy. I cannot change over to raw because I stay with my parents and no matter the amount of information I give them they will not allow it. Considering I have pushed their boundaries with regards to positive reinforcement etc I think pushing a raw diet is really pushing them too far especially after they have on several occassions given me a blatant no on the subject. I really cannot afford Orijen. Not even for 1 dog. It is stupid expensive and I don't have that kind of money. Our best diets available here are Eukanuba, Royal Canin and Science diet, everything else, believe it or not, is even worse than those.
 

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Honestly, if you think it's a grain allergy, you could try for a month or two and see if it helps. If it doesn't help, you can always switch back. The ingredients are simpler than Eukanuba, but overall they're probably about the same quality...Eukanuba has a ton of corn in it. It does suck that you can't find any good foods without paying a ton of money.

Could you possibly supplement with meat or eggs, even if it's cooked? That way you can up the meat content of the food without having to try to convince anyone to try raw, and you can still use the grain-free food.
 

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ETA: we are on Eukanuba because dog food analisys website rates it higher than the other foods I mentioned. Hills and Royal Canin are 1star and Euk a 2 star, I know it is still bad, but is the best I have available.
I am indeed able to supplement with cooked meat and raw egg. Would you be able to suggest portions? Right now Bella (grain allergy suspect) eats 3 cups of Eukanuba a day and stays at a healthy weight (normal weight not slim or chubby feel ribs without pressing and can feel hips but hips not visible and only last 2 ribs visible). If I put her on the above mentioned food what sort of portions am I looking at? For example 1cup of dry food + x amount of raw egg or x grams of cooked meat etc? Can anyone help me put together a diet plan with what I have available to me? Keeping in mind I cannot switch to raw. I have access to chicken mostly and beef second most. I can easily access things like hearts and liver and intestines and just normal meat.
 
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