Need advice on dog food...

[AussiesCollies]

I think I've decided on which food to change Tank over to. I went to Petsmart and looked at basically every brand of dog food they had. I checked out Royal Canin and I just can't bring myself to pay $10.99 for a 5 lb. bag of dog food. So I kept looking and found this brand called Harvest Baked. It's about $6.99 for 10 lbs. and it looks like a good brand. Lots of veggies, meat is the first ingredient, no by-products or corn. Do any of you have any experience with Harvest Baked?

Tank is eating Flint River Ranch right now, but I think it's just too rich for his little tummy. Plus I think the kibble's a bit big for him.

And one last question. Harvest baked has puppy food which it says to feed your dog till it is 1 year old. The adult dog food says to start feeding that at one year old...since Tank is a smaller breed and will be full grown before 1 year, would it be ok to feed him the adult dog food at about 8-10 months old? What do you all think?

Any advice would be great! Thanks ya'll!

[Aria]

can honestly say i have never heard of the stuff. How many times have you switched their food?

[Deb's Tiny Dogs]

Originally Posted by AussiesCollies

I think I've decided on which food to change Tank over to. I went to Petsmart and looked at basically every brand of dog food they had. I checked out Royal Canin and I just can't bring myself to pay $10.99 for a 5 lb. bag of dog food. So I kept looking and found this brand called Harvest Baked. It's about $6.99 for 10 lbs. and it looks like a good brand. Lots of veggies, meat is the first ingredient, no by-products or corn. Do any of you have any experience with Harvest Baked?

Tank is eating Flint River Ranch right now, but I think it's just too rich for his little tummy. Plus I think the kibble's a bit big for him.

And one last question. Harvest baked has puppy food which it says to feed your dog till it is 1 year old. The adult dog food says to start feeding that at one year old...since Tank is a smaller breed and will be full grown before 1 year, would it be ok to feed him the adult dog food at about 8-10 months old? What do you all think?
Any advice would be great! Thanks ya'll!

We kept all our small pups on puppy food until they were one. That is what our breeder told us to do. You can go out on line and do side by side dog food comparisons. Just put Dog Food Comparisons" in your search engine and you should be able to locate one. They're pretty interesting.

[AussiesCollies]

Tank was on some dog food when I very first got him that you can only get in North Carolina...why the guy that sold him did that I dunno. So I switched him to Purina One puppy chow and then over to Flint River Ranch. I switched him very slowly each time and he's been on the Flint River for about 2 or 3 months now. He still has about half a bag of Flint River to go before I think about switching him, I just don't think this food is right for him. So it'll prolly still be another month to 2 months before I would switch him over to Harvest Baked.

[barnjess]

All i can find about the ingredents is this

Authority® Harvest Baked(TM) Chicken Puppy Dog Food
Top Ten
Ingredients Guaranteed Analysis
Chicken
Whole Ground Wheat
Chicken Meal
Whole Ground Barley
Canola Oil
Carrots
Salmon Meal
Dried Egg Product
Spinach
Tomatoes
Protein 29.0%
fat 15.0%
Fiber3.0%
Moisture10.0%




Personally I would rather see all the ingredents not just the top ten, do you have a list of all the ingredents? I has a lot of grains, init, do you know what it is about the food you are feeding now that causes him a upset stomach?

[AussiesCollies]

I don't know exactly. But I've heard other people say that their small dogs got diahrrea when they fed them Flint River Ranch and it's doing the same to Tank. I personally like the ingredients in Harvest Baked. Flint River seems to have a lot of the same ingredients as the Harvest Baked, but Harvest Baked has more veggies in it.

[Faith]

interesting - when i did a search i got this. the ingredient list is a bit different than what is listed above.


Authority - Puppy with Real Chicken

Ingredients:
Chicken meal, brewers rice, ground corn, animal fat (preserved with vitamin E (mixed tocopherols)), chicken, corn gluten meal, dried beet pulp, chicken liver digest, dried egg product, dicalcium phosphate, canola oil, potassium chloride, vitamin and mineral supplements (choline chloride, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, vitamin E supplement, l- ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate, (source of ascorbic acid), copper sulfate, vitamin A supplement, manganese sulfate, niacin, d-calcium pantothenate, vitamin D3 supplement, riboflavin, calcium iodate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamin mononitrate, folic acid, sodium selenite, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement

Guaranteed Analysis
Protein: 29%
Fat: 17%
Fiber: 3%
Moisture: 10%

[AussiesCollies]

When I read the bags the other day, it said what Barnjess posted on the bag. It didn't say what you posted Faith cuz I try to avoid corn.

[DaneGirl2208]

i feed authority..its pretty good.im actually hoping to switch to Eagle Pack soon,ive heard good things about it.

[Faith]

i would recheck the bag. the ingredients are listed on the Petsmart website -

http://www.petsmart.com/global/produ...=1136849970616



Authority Puppy with Real Chicken
Top Ten Ingredients
Chicken Meal
Brewers Rice
Corn
Animal Fat (Preserved with Vitamin E mixed tocopherols)
Chicken
Corn Gluten Meal
Dried Beet Pulp
Chicken Liver Digest
Dried Egg Product
Dicalcium Phosphate