Feed question

furballchowbaby · Post by **furballchowbaby** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:56 pm

Hello... I'm new to the board today! I wonder what everyone feeds their Chows?? We had a Chow before (we lost Sally to cancer in Sept. 06) who could not eat certain feed... Science diet made her coat really yucky... Purina brands were hard on her kidneys, etc. We had great luck with a brand called Black Gold, but we are having trouble finding a distributor to return our calls in Ohio. So, we are looking for a good brand for our newest addition, 4 month old Maggie! TIA!

Post by **jerryo** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:12 pm

Welcome aboard!

and thanks for coming!

Maggie is a real sweety. Congratulations!

The food question has been discussed in about a thousand or two post here in the last year, so while you are waiting for more replies you might want to look back through the archives. FYI my furkids are both on Nutro Lamb and Rice, partly because Jeff keeps recommending it every couple of days, and Peks seems to be OK.

Post by **Auddymay** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:33 pm

As a rule, the folks here avoid the supermarket brands, owing to the high sugar content, as well as corn and wheat fillers, that can cause allergic reactions in some chows. I had my Girls on Nature's Recipe, but Pip, my older girl, had a bad reaction. Never did find out if it was just the one bag or the food itself that was disagreeable, because we went to Jeff's favorite, Nutro Lamb and Rice. Less fillers- means less body waste, if you get my meaning.

janet · Post by **janet** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:41 pm

welcome. your maggie is adorable, reminds me of my luna when she was a chowbaby. look forward to alot of love from her! you will find alot of great advice on this site. i love it. i just returned myself and boy have i missed it. anyway, as for feedin your little cutie, i took the advice from some members here and have been feeding luna (8 Months) nutro lamb and rice puppy formula dry food. i also give her a can of the same food daily. she hasnt had one problem!! (knock wood). her coat is beautiful, no skin problems,etc. great advice. good luck with your new bundle of joy!!!

furballchowbaby · Post by **furballchowbaby** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:14 pm

Thanks for the tips... I didn't even think about the archive folder! I should have known I wasn't the first poster to ask a feed question!! Doh!

redangie24 · Post by **redangie24** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:28 pm

I go with the nutro ultra since it has the whole grain brown rice instead of white, but there are allot of good brands. Nutro, blue buffalo(with some down sides some have had digestion problems with this one), solid gold, candaide.

LuLu33 · Post by **LuLu33** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:58 pm

Welcome! Your Chowbaby is a cutie! We love to see pictures as they grow or are being bad or being good!

I feed nutro natural lamb and rice puppy and I also use a kelp vitamin that u mix a scoop with the food.
There is a bunch of threads on food and all the reasons why (Purina puppy chow not the way to go) and things like that so when you have free time read away!

Princess · Post by **Princess** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:09 pm

ha.. i was just going to start a new post on this one.. but i'll wrote stuff here, since it works...

So.. Gabbana is 11 months and all i have fed her so far was Science diet lamb and rice puppy, she's tried original and she liked it better by the way.. buttttt then I found this site and now switching foods. Gabbana is very picky so i decided to take on an experiment about what brand of food she'll like best(yes I AM a science geek in real life too)!!!

I went out and bought small bags of: Nutro Lamb and Rice large puppy, Eagle Pack lamb and rice lr. breed, Solid Gold Wolf Cub (with bison and duck). I didn't feed Gabbana for about 15 hours, so she'll be hungry (she doesn't eat much to begin with during the time I took her food away, no cruelty here). I took her out of the room and I put 30 kibbles of each type of food on separate napkins and put them right in front of where she would come in when I would let her in. I observed which food she would eat first.
Here are my results: She went for the Nutro first (yay jeff), then she went for eagle pack, and only after some debating she went for solid gold.
Conclusion: as this experiment has many sources of error, I at least know she likes nutro, but eagle pack holistique is human grade (i'm not sure if nutro is), but that makes me happy knowing that I could eat it too (poor student, never know when i may need to eat some hahaha

), as well as eagle pack makes a fish formula which is hypoallergenic and great for their coat.

Sorry for long post, thought i would share my lameness with all of you!!
best, Olga

redangie24 · Post by **redangie24** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:16 pm

Nutro ultra is I am not sure about the one you used I will have to check that one. Also large breed is not really for chows. Chows are medium breed and from what I have heard from kiwani our resident nutrionist it is bad for chows to eat large breed formula.
Personally I say go with nutro cause jeff's arguments are worth it. Mostly though besides jeff I was sold on the gurantee on taste, thicker shiner coat, and less poop. And they lived up to all of the gurnatees. All around Ivana has never looked or acted better than when she is on nutro. I do also supplement and use yougurt and cottage cheese and fresh foods.

Jeff&Peks · Post by **Jeff&Peks** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:33 pm

Geez, so now Nutro can't be mentioned without me, that makes me the Nutro guy. Nutro better be reading all this. What ever happened to the Vacuum Guy?

Breathless · Post by **Breathless** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:34 pm

So you're saying Nutro isn't paying you?!

Jeff&Peks · Post by **Jeff&Peks** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:36 pm

9 years and I still havn't seen a free bag or even a discount coupon.

Sylvia · Post by **Sylvia** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:15 pm

Here you go Jeff, and anyone else that wants to try a free bag of Nutro Natural Choice.
http://www.nutroproducts.com/yourfamily/

Or sign up for the frequent Nutro buyer program. Its free.
http://www.nutroproducts.com/fbpnutroReg.asp

And while you're at it enter the free Nutro for a year contest.
http://www.nutroproducts.com/promotions.asp

janet · Post by **janet** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:16 am

sylvia, thanks for the links. and jeff, thank you for your advice. luna is doing great on nutro!! you should definately be a spokes person. lol. besides, you have the best breed to put in the commercials. i could just see it now," move over purina, my chow chows down on nutro". lol.

Post by **chris** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:51 am

Jeff&Peks wrote:9 years and I still havn't seen a free bag or even a discount coupon.

I got my free bag a few weeks ago... working on getting the 2nd one.

Princess · Post by **Princess** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:07 am

redangie, I tried Nutro natural... you're not supposed to feed large breed?? Really.... that's what the vet told me to feed, and I like how they have glucosamine and chondritin in them, and nutro has something in it to prevent growth spurts that are bad, can't remember what the rep at the local pet store was telling me....

redangie24 · Post by **redangie24** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:54 pm

I would pm kiwani since I am not sure of the reasoning and there are too many food links for me to search the archives on that particular post.