Food for Bernese Mountain Dog

Gemmamc

Got a bernese at wekend breeder is feeding him beta puppy food for large breed bought a bag just to try and suss out which is best, can anyone give me their thoughts on this food

odckdo

As the breeder started your pup on Beta you'll have to stick with that for the moment. The ingredients aren't great in fairness. For example cereals are more than there so-called 'meat'.

I don't know much about specific large breed foods - someone else on here might fill you in.

From Purina-Beta website Puppy Large Breed with Turkey:

Composition: Cereals (wholegrain 20%), Meat and animal derivatives (meat 14%, turkey 4%), Vegetable protein extracts, Oils and fats, Derivatives of vegetable origin (dried beet pulp 1.1%), Vegetables (dried chicory root 1.1%), Minerals.

Compared to say Barking Heads Little Big Foot (Large Breed Puppy) which has 50% chicken and salmon:

Composition* Boneless Chicken*, Dried Chicken*, Brown Rice, Dried Potato, Pea Starch, Oats, Boneless Salmon*, High Omega 3 Trout, Pea Protein, Chicken Fat, Dried Egg, Natural Flavours, Salmon Oil, Lucerne, Seaweed, Hip & Joint Care Pack+ (Glucosamine 410mg/kg, MSM 410mg/kg, Chondroitin 290mg/kg), Carrot, MOS, FOS (*total 50% chicken)

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odckdo wrote: »

As the breeder started your pup on Beta you'll have to stick with that for the moment. The ingredients aren't great in fairness. For example cereals are more than there so-called 'meat'.

I don't know much about specific large breed foods - someone else on here might fill you in.

From Purina-Beta website Puppy Large Breed with Turkey:

Composition: Cereals (wholegrain 20%), Meat and animal derivatives (meat 14%, turkey 4%), Vegetable protein extracts, Oils and fats, Derivatives of vegetable origin (dried beet pulp 1.1%), Vegetables (dried chicory root 1.1%), Minerals.

Compared to say Barking Heads Little Big Foot (Large Breed Puppy) which has 50% chicken and salmon:

Composition* Boneless Chicken*, Dried Chicken*, Brown Rice, Dried Potato, Pea Starch, Oats, Boneless Salmon*, High Omega 3 Trout, Pea Protein, Chicken Fat, Dried Egg, Natural Flavours, Salmon Oil, Lucerne, Seaweed, Hip & Joint Care Pack+ (Glucosamine 410mg/kg, MSM 410mg/kg, Chondroitin 290mg/kg), Carrot, MOS, FOS (*total 50% chicken)

Do your dog the biggest favour ever and feed raw food as he will thrive on it and so will your pocket with slashed vets fees , rem dog food was only started in the late 40,s and a lot of disease and problems with it same as us and fast food