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View Poll Results: Which brand to pick?
Nutro Choice 5 55.56%
Hill's Science Plan Nature's Best 2 22.22%
Royal Canin Labrador Retriever 30 2 22.22%
Voters: 9. You may not vote on this poll - please see pinned thread in this section for details.



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bellaluna
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22-09-2004, 04:13 PM

Choosing foodbrand

Hi guys

Sorry to keep nagging about this!

As u might all know I've had to change Luna's food.

I reallly want something that can be brought to my door, as I tend to use WAY to much money when I go to the petstore. One brand of the 3 in the poll can be brought out, but don't know if its good enough.....



Here's the info on the food:

HILLS

Ingredients: Ground Maize, chicken- and turky meal, maize gluten meal, animal fat, digest, ground rice, vegetable oil, dried whole egg, dried beet pulp, dehydrated carrots and peas, potassium chloride, flazseed, salt, L-lysine hydrochloride, L-tryptophan, glucosamine hydrochloride, chondroitin sulphate and rosemary extract. With natural preservative (citric acid) and antioxidants (mixed tocopherols). Coloured with iron oxide.

ROYAL CANIN LABRADOR RETRIEVER 30

Ingredients: Dehydrated poultry meat, rice, maize, maize gluten, animalfats, barley, poultry liver, purified cellulose, beet pulp, vegetable oils (including borage oil), minerals, fish oil, hydrolysed crustaceans (source of glucosamine), fructo-oligo-saccharides, trace-elements (including chelated trace-elements), hydrolysed cartilage (source of chondroitin), taurine, sodium polyphosphate, L-carnitine, marigold extrac (source of lutein) and vitamins.
Preservative: potassium sorbate - Antioxidants: BHA, propyl gallate


Average analysis:

HILLS

Protein 23,0%
Fat 13,8%
Fibre 1,8%
Ash 5,3%
Moisture 8,0%
Calcium 0,74%
Phosphorus 0,62%
Sodium 0,28%

RC LAB:

Protein 30,0%
Fat 13,0%
Fibre 5,2%
Ash 6,0%
Moisture 8,0%
Calcium 1,0%
Phosphorus 0,75%
Sodium 0,35%
Potassium 0,70%
Magnesium 0,09%


Per kg:

HILLS
Vitamin A 10,100 IU
Vitamin D3 450 IU
Vitamin E 600 mg
Vitamin C 70 mg
Beta-carotene 1,5 mg
Selenium 0,5 mg
L-carnitine 330 mg
Copper 12,0 mg


RC LAB
Vitamin A 22000 IU
Vitamin D3 1500 IU
Vitamin E 600 mg
Vitamin C 300 mg
B1 28 mg
Selenium 0,25 mg
Copper 25 mg
Iron 175 mg
Manganese 60 mg
Zinc 250 mg


Here's a link to the Nutro Choice:
http://www.nutro.co.uk/dog/index.htm

I cant be allowed to copy the text. Its the chicken and rice version. The ingredients are on the right

Can u guys help me?
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22-09-2004, 04:59 PM
Sorry can't help here, I haven't tried any of the foods you mention, my lot are are Burns and I think it's excellent!
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22-09-2004, 05:09 PM
ahh okay.

Maybe I should add links to the site, so it would be possible to read about the food brands?
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22-09-2004, 05:15 PM
I use CSJ with some Nature diet wet food added to it.
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22-09-2004, 05:25 PM
Cant get either here in Denmark Wolfie!
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22-09-2004, 05:27 PM
RC Lab is very high in protein
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22-09-2004, 06:09 PM
I cant help either but as a rule I would go for the food that contains NO artificial flavours colours or preservatives. Also no GM. hope that helps!
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22-09-2004, 06:22 PM
Well Kate has told me her opinion about what is the purest of the 3, but I just wanted to know, what everyone else though!

Thanks Azz, it helps.
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23-09-2004, 10:24 AM
Have you considered feeding raw?
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23-09-2004, 10:38 AM
Yes but I'm too afraid to do it! I'm scared she'll get a bone stuck somewhere.
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