Best food to 'solve' anal gland problems

Bill, our springer has always suffered with his anal glands.
A couple of months ago we put him on a raw diet.
But the last few days he's been dragging his bum and he's stinky again.

He has chicken carcass / mince about every other day (with other days of fish / mince, offal / chicken, etc).

Any ideas on how I can help him please?

Is it just chicken bones more often, or would ground egg-shell help (and how much)?

Any input welcome.

Thanks folks.

Em

If you feed twice a day one of those meals should be of RMBs.

If you add powdered eggshell this will significantly increase the level of calcium in the diet and unbalance the CA:P ratio.

Trophy Duck and Vegetable is excellent for sorting this out. My friend's cocker visited the vet every 2 months to have his anal glands emptied but since he started eating this he doesn't go at all.

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I cannot recommend their food highly enough.

One thing to consider is that sometimes it can be a deformity of the anal glands that cause constant problems that diet doesn't fix - e.g. they're not quite the right angle to empty properly every time. Surgery can be performed but from what I've heard, it's a last attempt rather than something to rush into.

We had this problem with one of ours every month they had to get them emptied & vets talked of surgery.

By giving them 2-3 raw chicken wings daily for breakfast it stopped the problem totally. Nowadays we dont feed raw however we still add chicken wings to the diet about 2-3 times a week. For a while you coud try your dog with daily ration of chicken wings included in the diet & hopefully you would have the success we had