What are your thoughts on Flint River Ranch

[Naturegurl]

Food? I have a 5 yo male Rottie with some serious food allergies, namely corn being at the top of the list.
I have spent a ton of money trying to find a food that agrees with him.
The lastest trip to the vet today was over $130. for meds to calm his stomach down and cure the bloody stools he's started again.
He also has some autoimmune issues, so that makes it harder.
I have used solid gold, nutro, science diet, barf (worked but way to time consuming since I went back to work), and he's been on a lesser brand Exclusive that worked for about a year now.
I ordered a bag of FRR today to try on him.
I would just like to hear input from others who have tried feeding this.
Thanks!

 

[juliefurry]

sorry, I haven't tried it but have you looked into Innova or other brands of that nature. Some of their foods do not contain corn. I feed the Eagle Pack holistic select chicken meal and rice and that does not contain corn (well to my knowledge I would have to check the ingredients really good).

 

[Naturegurl]

I got my package of FRR from the UPS person today. Wow, that was quick. I just ordered it Wed evening.
He seems to like it. We'll see how it agrees with him.
No I haven't tried Innova. I was looking for a dogfood that none of their products have corn in them.

 

[trigger1]

let us know how the dog turn out with FRR, and what is wrong with products that has corn in them? i'm just curious

 

[Naturegurl]

My dog is allergic to corn in any form. It really messes up his digestive system.
I will let you know how he does on this.

 

[oriondw]

Corn is just a filler. Poor one at that.

Dogs dont need it.

 

[Mordy]

corn is not "just a filler". that is a common misconception tho.

if quality corn is used as a source of carbohydrate, like in quality foods, it is no worse than any other source of grain. it is correct that dogs don't "need" corn, but they don't really "need" any dietary source of carbs, be it in form of grains (rice, barley, oats etc.) or other types of starch (potato, sweet potato ...). these are used in commercial foods because they are readily available, inexpensive and faciliate the manufacturing process. you can't make kibble from meat only, and even if you found a way it would be prohibitively expensive.

the problems start where corn (or any grain or grain byproduct) is used as a major ingredient to serve as a source of protein instead of quality meat, since vegetable protein isn't as easily digested as meat protein.

 

[Saje]

I got my package of FRR from the UPS person today. Wow, that was quick. I just ordered it Wed evening.
He seems to like it. We'll see how it agrees with him.
No I haven't tried Innova. I was looking for a dogfood that none of their products have corn in them.

Innova EVO is meant to be as close to feeding raw as possible. It doesn't have any grains in it.

http://www.naturapet.com/display.php?d=product-detail&pxsl=//product[@id='1246']

 

[Naturegurl]

But it does have Alfalfa Sprouts, which another one of my dogs has an allegry to. He gets a terrible red rash on his chest when he eats Alfalfa.
It isn't easy buying dogfood around my house.

 

[Saje]

It's probably expensive but what about buying prepared BARF? The kind that comes in frozen packages. Or, since that's what works for your dog, what don't you make a batch once a week/month and freeze it in ziplock? It might be worthwhile

 

[Naturegurl]

Oh I would LOVE to find prepared barf in my area. I have looked and been unable to find it.
I don't have enough room to premake enough barf for 2 large dogs and a small one.
We are talking over 220 lbs of dog to feed each week.

 

[Saje]

lol that's what I'm about at. I'm hoping to switch over to home-prepared soon which is why I'm keeping an eye out for a used freezer in the buy and sell.

You're in Kansas? Maybe Mordy knows of somewhere to get prepared barf.

 

[Saje]

Here's a group BARFKansas where you might get some help.

And another that looks suspiciously similar

 

[Naturegurl]

Thanks, do you have a URL for them?

 

[Saje]

lol well that's weird. I thought I put them.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BarfKansas/

There's one.

 

[Saje]

and the other

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KansasRawFood/

 

[Mordy]

search the yahoo groups for "carnivore feed suppliers". it's a very good group too.

 

[Naturegurl]

Thanks for the links!

 

[Naturegurl]

I didn't find anything afforable in my area from the links, but thanks for trying.
He seems to do doing okay on the FRR for now.