Salmon and potato
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| I don't see why not if the protein is appropriate percentages. |
| yup it is, just did not know if it should be chixken and beef? But I quess protein is protein. |
ej wrote: yup it is, just did not know if it should be chixken and beef? But I quess protein is protein.
well sort of. but I have been told these dogs should always have fish in their diets so if you go single source protein I would think salmon is ideal. my girl is on a fish based diet. |
| why are they suppose to have fish?? I never knew this.
EJ |
| It is a theory that all of the british Isle dogs were raised on a diet that included cold water fish. The theory goes on to hypothosize that the breed requires fish in the diet. SInce it can't hurt and fish oil is good for them I try to adhere to that instead of worrying about adding fish oil to the food. |
| I switched from salmon to turkey a few months ago when I read the Environmental Defense League's evaluation/recommendations on seafood. (It's about seafood consumed by humans.) Here's the link that evaluates seafoods by type and source:
http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521 Since we use a single-source protein for our dogs, I was really concerned about the PCB's, etc. in Atlantic farm-raised salmon cited by the EDL. Fortunately, my dogs had only been on the salmon food for a month. I don't recall any of the manufacturers identifying the source of the salmon used in the food so I switched to Pro-Plan Turkey and Barley for Seniors, Purina's attempt at a holistic food. So far, so good. Perhaps I'm being too cautious, but I've stopped eating farmed Atlantic salmon altogether and now only eat Alaskan (Sockeye, Copper River). It's significantly more expensive so I'm guessing that's not what producers put into dog food! |
| Both Orijen and Tast eof the wild (and I think solid gold) use canadian salmon and I thnk it is all wild caught but I could be wrong. |
| yes you are right. |
I switched to California Natural Salmon and Sweet Potato awhile back the sheepies loved it, there was a nice improvement in their coats. BUT all 3 had such gas it was HORRIBLE  So now we feed Dick Van Pattens Fish and Sweet Potato they love that also and no more gas  |
| Mine *LOVES* these Zuke's salmon treats I get him and seems to like Orijen's fish formula (I try to mix it up between that & their regular flavor to keep things interesting for him) -- have not had any issues with either of those.
He also really likes these sweet potato chews I picked up-- his digestive system, however, doesn't seem overly fond of those  ...so we'll probably avoid all things potato for now. |
| Here is an alert on feeding raw salmon to dogs--
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/ClientED/salmon.aspx All of the above posts state cooked or canned salmon, but there has been no mention of raw. Thought I would add this in case anyone is unaware Zahra |
R. Morrow wrote: Mine *LOVES* these Zuke's salmon treats I get him and seems to like Orijen's fish formula (I try to mix it up between that & their regular flavor to keep things interesting for him) -- have not had any issues with either of those.
He also really likes these sweet potato chews I picked up-- his digestive system, however, doesn't seem overly fond of those ...so we'll probably avoid all things potato for now.still asking - sweet potyatoes and potatoes really different food groups aren't they? |
kerry wrote: R. Morrow wrote: Mine *LOVES* these Zuke's salmon treats I get him and seems to like Orijen's fish formula (I try to mix it up between that & their regular flavor to keep things interesting for him) -- have not had any issues with either of those. He also really likes these sweet potato chews I picked up-- his digestive system, however, doesn't seem overly fond of those ...so we'll probably avoid all things potato for now.still asking - sweet potyatoes and potatoes really different food groups aren't they? Yes and no. It depends on what you mean by 'group' -- different families in the Linean system, but are still more similar to each other in some ways than they are to their other 'family' members by virtue of being starchy tubers. It could be that there's some difference in allelochemicals related to their lineages (for example) that could make one or the other more or less digestible to a dog (or a person for that matter), but that's just speculative. |
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