Best dog food for €40 - €45 price range (15kg bag)

Lemlin

Just got a third dog, an akita x elkhound. Already have an elkhound and cocker. I've been feeding them Massbrook and got Massbrook puppy food for the new pup. However, it's a relatively unknown brand and is costing €25 for the normal 15kg bag and €29 for the 15kg puppy bag. It seems alot for a brand that hasn't a premium name like Arden Grange, James Wellbeloved, Burns or Orijen.

Are there any foods people could recommend for a similar price? I'd be particularly interested in any websites where the premium brands are cheaper to get. I know Zooplus is cheap but are there any selling Arden Grange cheaper than retailers? I'd be willing to stretch to €40 for a decent premium bag but most shops are €55 to €60.

portgirl123

try whites. its €40 for a 15kg bag. my lot are on it and they love it. there was a problem with delivery around xmas but that has been sorted and deliveries are back on track.

its the only food that all my lot can eat, before that i was on 3 different brands

Zapperzy

+1 on whites, red mills leader supreme also (not sure how much it is but I think it's around the €40 mark). Someone here feeds clinivet, I think that's a bit cheaper too. As I'm sure you already know, with the more expensive brands you need to feed less so a bag should last longer so they may not work out much more expensive in the long run.

TOMP

I pay €59 for SALTERS senior dog food (15kg). Any opinions on this brand?

Shanao

With it being an akita mix I would highly reccommend a food with fish as the main ingredient. They adore fish, probably from their ancestors being fed mainly fish diets. Haven't tried whites but have heard great things about it so maybe email them for a sample and see how it goes

Zapperzy

TOMP wrote: »

I pay €59 for SALTERS senior dog food (15kg). Any opinions on this brand?

Post up the ingredients list or a link to it. I'v never heard of it and €59 sounds awful expensive for it if it's a crap brand, I'd be expecting very good quality (yet it's a name I'v never heard of ).

Edited: Is this it? http://www.salterspetfood.com/senior.html First ingredient is ground maize, second ingredient ground grain rice before finally a meat is mentioned 3rd and 4th ingredients. €59 for basically a bag of maize and rice. If your dog is doing well on it ok, but there are better quality foods available cheaper.

Gloomtastic!

GAIN Retired Greyhound Food is only €13 for 15kg. I've been feeding my boxer it for months now and it's fantastic. It has the same protein/oils as Spillers Leader.

FoxyVixen

Have an Akita myself and she thrived on the Gain Adult range when moving her to that. It's not a well known brand but as far as I can see it's a fantastic dry food for dogs. retails at about E27 in Connacht Gold.

Have her on a raw food diet with the dry feed too (not fed at the same time) so the bag lasts about 2months for me. Bounds of energy on this diet ,better looking coat, pearly teeth and better doggy breath.

lorebringer

Red Mills Leader/Leader Supreme are great, the other ones in the range are not as good.

Best For My Dog is also very good, but is a little over your price range at €48 for 15kg (but I found myself feeding significantly less than was recommended on the bag so it lasts for ages!).

Whites is another food worth trying, have heard mixed reviews on it but worth a go (maybe they could send you a few samples to try!).

kylith

Whites is €41 for 15kg, and my two, including the one with the dodgy tummy, do very well on it. They have an offer at the moment for 2 15kg bags for €71; you can't get fairer than that.

toadfly

kylith wrote: »

Whites is €41 for 15kg, and my two, including the one with the dodgy tummy, do very well on it. They have an offer at the moment for 2 15kg bags for €71; you can't get fairer than that.

That's brilliant, obviously trying to get their customers back. Have they sorted their deliveries? I ordered a sample last week and still haven't gotten it so I can order yet.

kylith

Was there a problem with the deliveries? The only one I've found is that they deliver during the day so if you work you'll miss it. The delivery guy is generally very good, though, and phones me up to tell me he's left it in my bin.

Taceom

Zapperzy wrote: »

, red mills leader supreme also (not sure how much it is but I think it's around the €40 mark).

Ther was a special offer on the Red Mills Adult Supreme in Pet Mania last week - a 15kg bag for 34 euro. That offer may still be available.

iguana

Lemlin wrote: »

It seems alot for a brand that hasn't a premium name like Arden Grange, James Wellbeloved, Burns or Orijen.

The name of a dog food is utterly irrelevant, it's the ingredients that matter. Sometimes it makes sense to get dog food from the North so petconnection.ie is worth a look. Their own brand food can be really good, the best of which is their salmon and potato food at £27 (roughly €32) for 15kg. The ingredients are, fresh salmon (min 26%), potato (min 26%), oats, maize, salmon
meal, beet pulp, refined poultry fat, dicalcium phosphate, salmon oil, minerals and vitamins.

magentas

Taceom wrote: »

Ther was a special offer on the Red Mills Adult Supreme in Pet Mania last week - a 15kg bag for 34 euro. That offer may still be available.

Yeah it was a tenner off, normal price is 45euro. Just put mine on it last week, they seem to be enjoying it and it's pretty good quality.

toadfly

kylith wrote: »

Was there a problem with the deliveries? The only one I've found is that they deliver during the day so if you work you'll miss it. The delivery guy is generally very good, though, and phones me up to tell me he's left it in my bin.

Ya do a search here there was a thread on it. I put the new pup on the puppy food and asked about deliveries. The lady in the vets said it's all sorted now but they are out of stock of the salmon one I want the sample of.

Lemlin

Can anyone post up the ingredients of Whites?

scudzilla

Just started this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056522969

12kg bags of Royal Canin in Petstop (Airside) for 45Euro, 15quid off.

Worked out at less than double the price of a 3kg bag (23euro) for 4 times as much food

Lemlin

iguana wrote: »

The name of a dog food is utterly irrelevant, it's the ingredients that matter. Sometimes it makes sense to get dog food from the North so petconnection.ie is worth a look. Their own brand food can be really good, the best of which is their salmon and potato food at £27 (roughly €32) for 15kg. The ingredients are, fresh salmon (min 26%), potato (min 26%), oats, maize, salmon
meal, beet pulp, refined poultry fat, dicalcium phosphate, salmon oil, minerals and vitamins.

Have you used this food? It looks very good stuff.

falabo

just received a delivery for the LUKULLUS food I ordered so thought I'd try that tonight and used it as rewards and my dogs LOVE it . they nuts look weird, almost like guinea pig food cos they use a preocess called "cold pressed"

Looked at the ingredients and it seems grand, @42.99 for a 15kg bag inc. delivery and zooplus points, I'm happy. now let's see how the poops will be ....

RubyGirl

Lemlin wrote: »

Can anyone post up the ingredients of Whites?

http://creavenspremium.com/epages/950002080.sf/en_IE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/950002080/Products/14714/SubProducts/%22with%20garlic%20%26%20herbs-0001%22

Whites Ingredients.

TentCrasher

Iam feeding mine a mix between Madra @ €10 for 15kg bag and Barking Heads @ € 40 for 15kg bag. I get 2 months feeding for two dogs.
I was wondering is there a food better than madra for around €25 per 15kg bag? Thanks

TonyFella

Iv my dogs on Red witch the salmon great food a lot of people with Akitas feed it to them as its owned by one of the top Akita kennels

Composition:
Salmon meal (26%), fresh salmon (15%), white rice (12.5%), brown rice (12.5%), whole maize, poultry fat, yeast, sugar beet pulp, potato, poultry digest, pea fibre, linseed, fish oil, glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM, yucca.

Analytical Constituents:
Crude Protein: 27% Crude Fibre: 3.5% Fat Content: 15% Crude Ash: 7%

Additives per kg:
Antioxidants: Natural D-mixed tocopherols;
Nutritional additives: Vitamin A 16000 iu, Vitamin D3 1600 iu,Vitamin E 100 mg, Ferrous Sulphate 52mg, Cupric Sulphate 10.5mg, Manganese Sulphate 18.8 mg, Zinc Sulphate 63.2 mg, Calcium Iodate 1.3 mg, Sodium Selenate 0.1 mg. http://www.redwitch.co.uk/products.htm

I get it from dogfooddirect.ie

nc6000

Just switched my two over to Red Mills Leader from Aldi's Earls Dry Food. I've some of the Aldi stuff left so have been mixing the two together. They seem to like it so far and I think it was a bit easier to clean up after them on their walk earlier on.

iguana

Lemlin wrote: »

Have you used this food? It looks very good stuff.

Yeah I feed them either that or the chicken one for the variety although the chicken one isn't as popular with one of my dogs. My other dog only has three legs so the fish and fish oil is very good for his joints that are under more pressure than most dogs his age.

Lemlin

iguana wrote: »

Yeah I feed them either that or the chicken one for the variety although the chicken one isn't as popular with one of my dogs. My other dog only has three legs so the fish and fish oil is very good for his joints that are under more pressure than most dogs his age.

Have ordered a couple of bags of it anyway so will see how they get on.

Tourism

scudzilla wrote: »

Just started this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056522969

12kg bags of Royal Canin in Petstop (Airside) for 45Euro, 15quid off.

Worked out at less than double the price of a 3kg bag (23euro) for 4 times as much food

Bought 3 bags of Royal Canin, probably the best dog food around.