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I have read that a Chow will do better with a with a kibble diet with salmon as the main ingredient rather than a chicken or meat kibble. It seems to be better for their coats and skin.
The omega-3 oils in salmon are anti-inflammatory fats, and play a very important role in overall health, including skin and coat, eye and brain development, etc. There is a great deal of information on omega-3's and the various anti-inflammatory foods/brands in the archives, if you're interested. What's important is knowing the source of the salmon, in the brand you choose, whether it's wild salmon or farmed. The farmed salmon are given meds, including vaccines, and are exposed to various other toxic chemicals involved with 'farming' them. They don't have a similar anti-inflammatory effect because of the way they are fed. The link below goes into more detail:
Excerpt: "Is there any nutritional difference between wild-caught and
farm-raised fish? Is one type better for me than the other?
From both a nutritional and environmental impact perspective, farmed fish are far inferior to their wild counterparts:
Despite being much fattier, farmed fish provide less usable beneficial omega 3 fats than wild fish.
Due to the feedlot conditions of aquafarming, farm-raised fish are doused with antibiotics and exposed to more concentrated pesticides than their wild kin. Farmed salmon, in addition, are given a salmon-colored dye in their feed, without which, their flesh would be an unappetizing grey color.
Aquafarming also raises a number of environmental concerns, the most important of which may be its negative impact on wild salmon. It has now been established that sea lice from farms kill up to 95% of juvenile wild salmon that migrate past them. (Krkosek M, Lewis MA.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.)"
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=96
Excerpt: "Is there any nutritional difference between wild-caught and
farm-raised fish? Is one type better for me than the other?
From both a nutritional and environmental impact perspective, farmed fish are far inferior to their wild counterparts:
Despite being much fattier, farmed fish provide less usable beneficial omega 3 fats than wild fish.
Due to the feedlot conditions of aquafarming, farm-raised fish are doused with antibiotics and exposed to more concentrated pesticides than their wild kin. Farmed salmon, in addition, are given a salmon-colored dye in their feed, without which, their flesh would be an unappetizing grey color.
Aquafarming also raises a number of environmental concerns, the most important of which may be its negative impact on wild salmon. It has now been established that sea lice from farms kill up to 95% of juvenile wild salmon that migrate past them. (Krkosek M, Lewis MA.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.)"
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=96