large breed puppy feed

newpuppies

Can anyone recommend a good quality large breed puppy feed for my 12 week old puppies. They are on red mills which isnt agreeing with them. Thanks

Cherry Blossom

What is your budget?

The large/small breed thing is largely marketing nonsence. There is no difference in the nutritional needs of a chihuahua and that of a Saint Bernard other than the amount of food they need obviously.

newpuppies

Thanks for that. I was hoping to get a good size bag for €60 approx but i think quality varies a lot between brands?

Hooked

I put the younger of my 2 Huskies on Markus Meule Naturnah at 4 months. They're both thriving on it. The kibble is soft and brittle so could easily be given to a pup. We feed this in the mornings and raw feeds in the afternoon.

We buy from zooplus online. 2 x 15 kg bags (with the 5% discount) for around 70/75 euro - the price of ONE bag of 'pet supermarket' brand. Much better ingredients too! And free delivery.

There are better foods of course - but not for that money!

Edited to add
http://www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk/dog-food-reviews/0341/markus-muehle-naturnah

Cherry Blossom

I'm feeding Purizon which is about €62 for 13.5kg on zooplus. My little dogs eat about half the amount as they did when on Barking Heads which probably cost a bit more as I had to pay sterling prices for that. You can save a bit of money if you buy 2 bags at once.

Change over slowly as there would be a big difference in the ingredients in red mills and it takes them a bit of time to adjust to new foods.

volchitsa

Red Mills "not agreeing" with them : how does this show up?

I'm wondering because our 3 month old puppy has been changed from a mixture of tinned dog food (I don't know what kind but the cheapest available I'm sure) and family leftovers - her parents are working sheepdogs, she's not from a professional breeder of any sort, just the owners of the two dogs.

She's now mostly on kibble (Hill's for puppies/large breed) with some tinned puppy food, about a tin a day, mixed in with her kibble, midday and evening. Kibble on its own in the morning.

The thing is, this last 4/5 days she's been terribly constipated, like little stones almost, they sort of clink when I put them in the bucket I use to gather them off the grass!

She had a bout of diarrhoea two weeks ago but it didn't seem to be anything important, I gave her rice and chicken and it cleared up in 24 hours. I haven't given her rice for over a week now, and the constipation seems to have begun when she went back on her previous mix. Could it just be a consequence of the diarrhoea, or is it likely to be the food in some way?

psycho-hope

we have our terrier on James wellbeloved, he has a dodgy tummy and its the only one that dosent upset him, our vet has her own dogs on it too and its a big fan