Would you feed this to your dog?

[Lolas Dad]

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.

 

[xpaeanx]

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....

 

[dobesgalore]

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.

 

[DanL]

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.

 

[Lolas Dad]

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?

 

[Toller_08]

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.

 

[Dekka]

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.

 

[dogsarebetter]

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

 

[MicksMom]

Nope. Caleb's on a grain free diet.

 

[Zoom]

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.

 

[BostonBanker]

Is it Wellness? That's the only one I can think of off the top of my head that lists de-boned chicken.

I stick to grain-free when I do kibble as well, so I wouldn't personally feed it. But it's still better than a lot of what is out there, and what works best for one dog may not work best for yours. The difference in Meg on grain-free vs a high quality food containing grain is night and day.

 

[PoodleMommy]

It is also pretty similar to the Blue Buffalo line.

 

[Izzy's Valkyrie]

I wouldn't because Izzy and Jade are both on grain-free and Izzy has yellow stools on foods that include grain. But if your dog didn't have a picky stomach like mine, I think she'd be fine.

 

[CaliTerp07]

Nope, Lucy does horribly on chicken. If it were the same food with fish as the protein source instead, I'd consider it.

 

[ACooper]

I would feed it if they weren't charging an arm and a leg for it.....wouldn't want to pay that much for all that grain. Neither of mine have an issue with grain as long as it's not corn......Phoebe gets awful skin issues on corn.

As someone said, I don't like the unknown fish, but it's back on the list and I'd give the food a try at the right price

Side note: I do 1/2 kibble and 1/2 home cooked.......

 

[colliewog]

I wouldn't because of the barley - it doesn't agree with my dogs. Otherwise, I agree with those that said it depended upon how much they were charging for it ...

 

[ihartgonzo]

My dogs never do well on barley, either.

Personally, I don't like "deboned chicken" before "chicken meal". I also don't like the 4 grains/starches in the top ingredients, as those 4 combined probably make up a LOT more of the kibble than the chicken.

 

[puppydog]

Nope.