What are some good dog food brands for Huskies?
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What are some good dog food brands for Huskies that are cheap and well known?
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What are some good dog food brands for Huskies that are cheap and well known?
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Remember, you get what you pay for. If “cheap” is your main concern, you aren’t going to get anything high quality. Stay away from grocery store foods, like Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Beneful, Science Diet, Pedigree, etc.
Innova, Merrick, Eagle Pack, Wellness, Blue Buffalo, Taste of the Wild, California Naturals, and Instinct are all great foods. Go to your local pet food and animal feed stores and see what they have available.
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Hello! I own a Siberian Husky and I am more than happy to share with you my feeding experiences.
First of all, they do have really sensitive stomachs, if a food won’t agree with the, it will result in diarrhea.
Secondly, well known doesn’t mean good. In fact, it’s better to avoid popular brands like Purina, Royal Canin, Eukanuba, Pedigree etc.
However, less known brands tend to be much better and in fact you will save buying them because you actually have to feed less to attain the same results as with bad quality food!!
There is a lot to say on the topic of dog foods. A good start would be searching for food reviews on this site and see what food would be good for your dog.
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/
As you can see, food are ranked up to 6 stars! Every thing under 3 stars is very bad. Purina, Eukanuba etc all rank under 2 stars! This is not good at all.
Let’s why this happens. In order to evaluate what food is best for your dog, what food suits his needs you really need to get some insight in how dog food is made and what goes into it.
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?…
Ideally, your purpose is to feed the dog as much meat as possible. So that’s why, the primary goal is that the first ingredient on the ingredient list is a meat product and not corn, soy, rice etc.
As you might now, the ingredient list contains ingredients in the descending order of their quantities in the product.
Thus, the first ingredient = the largest one in the food should be a meat.
However, not any meat. It has to be a specific type – e.g. chicken, not poultry (which can be anything from duck to goose). Or lamb, not meat meal. Lamb is specific. Meat meal can mean a pidgeon or a rat etc. And also you want it not to be a by-product. By-products can be anything that comes out of the body: organs, left-overs of production process, whatever is rejected for human consumption.
Now, most commercial foods like Eukanuba, Pedigree, Purina contain lots of corn and grain. Corn is difficult to digest by dogs, but very cheap. That’s why it is used extensively in dog foods, but not a good ingredient.
The list goes on – you can really find it all on the site.
Some good foods that I can recommend are Acana, Orijen, Arden Grange, Taste of the Wild, Innova Evo, Blue Buffalo, Solid Gold etc.
You really have to do some research to actually find something you deem good enough for your dog. It may seem difficult, but nobody but you can decide what’s best to feed him.
If you want dog food that are relatively affordable check for:
- Taste of the Wild
- Canidae
- Natural balance
- Blue Buffalo
- Evo/ Innova, which actually might be a little more pricey.
For huskies you might want to avoid as much grain and fillers as possible since they have very sensitive stomach. So check the ingredient list and make sure that the protein weight percent is above 25%.
Go on the manufacturer’s website and check for local retailers they are sometimes less expensive than Petsmart or Petco.
I have 2 sib hukies and feed them canidae grain free. They are doing well on it, but since they are not so active (due to the warmer climate where I live) I might switch to Blue Buffalo or Taste of the Wild which have a lower protein weight percent.
Canidae grain free is about $1.60/lbs at my local petstore.
Blue Buffalo is about $1.75/lbs
Innova/Evo $2.30/lbs or so.
But it is true that huskies don’t need a lot of food unless they are very active, so cheap all depends on how much they need.
Hope this helped
If you want to find the best food for huskies ask the people who demand the most performance from their dogs- Mushers. If you go to a dog sled race and look around the brands you will see most often are National, Blackwood, RedPaw, Eagle Pack Power formula and Animaet. I Know mushers who use all of these brands with good results. National is probably the lowest price of these brands and is a very good food. I have fed National, Blackwood and RedPaw throughout my years with sled dogs. Currently I feed one of my dogs RedPaw because he loses weight with any other food I have tried. The rest eat National. The best food for your dog is the one he thrives on. Not necessarily the food that some web site or feed store salesman recommends.
Blue Buffalo!