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07-06-2011, 05:37 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Maryland
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| Anyone feed Natural Balance Ultra? Is there something wrong with it? The ingredients look good and it has a small kibble. Although it is not grain free is there a reason no one here talks about it? INGREDIENT LISTING Chicken, Brown Rice, Lamb Meal, Oatmeal, Barley, Potatoes, Carrots, Chicken Fat (preserved with natural mixed tocopherols), Duck Meal, Tomato Pomace, Natural Flavor, Canola Oil, Brewers Yeast, Duck, Salmon Meal, Sodium Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Salmon Oil, Whole Ground Flaxseed, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Natural Mixed Tocopherols, Spinach, Parsley Flakes, Cranberries, L-Lysine, L-Carnitine, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Dried Kelp, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), Manganese Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Supplement, Biotin, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Riboflavin (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Folic Acid. GUARANTEED ANALYSIS Crude Protein 23.0% minimum Crude Fat 13.0% minimum Crude Fiber 3.0% maximum Moisture 10.0% maximum Omega-3 Fatty Acids 0.5% minimum Omega-6 Fatty Acids 3.0% minimum
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07-06-2011, 06:40 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Abbotsford, BC
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| I feed this but not just Natural Balance. I mix NB Ultra, Orijen Adult and NOW, all are dry kibble. I never feed tinned dog food anymore. My dogs ended up with diahrrea and/or vomiting. Sinced I cut out tinned food, no more problem. |
07-06-2011, 11:29 AM | #3 |
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| I dont feed the Ultra version- but rotate in other NB varieties in my kiddos diet- I always recommend it as a good quality food
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07-06-2011, 02:12 PM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Michigan
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| NB is a good quality food. I personally don't feed it but I used one of their different formulas a few years ago with Sasha and she just wasn't crazy about it. I know other members on here use this food. They just have so many different varieties so I'm sure everyone uses something different! |
07-06-2011, 04:39 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | I use the Natural Balance Ultra Weight management and mine love it. I wasn't sure if it was a great food so in the past 4 months I tried Solid Gold, Wellness and back to California Natural and they prefer the NB Ultra weigh management over all of the others. Now I am back to NB Ultra.
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07-06-2011, 05:15 PM | #6 |
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| My two eat NB LID Sweet Potato and Venison, my Jada has allergic reactions to grain and chicken. We have been feeding this for about 7 months now and they are doing great on it.
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07-06-2011, 05:19 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Maui, Hawaii
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| I feed Natural Balance Ultra Original, (not small breed), and have been very happy with it.
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07-06-2011, 06:44 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: At Home
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| I use the Natural Balance Reduced Calorie because it is lower in fat. Mine do great on it. I have been using it for years.
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07-06-2011, 06:52 PM | #9 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Maryland
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| Thanks I thought maybe there was some "issues" I did not know about or something. It looks good to me and is easily available.
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07-07-2011, 07:45 AM | #10 |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| Looks okay to me. The major issue I'd have with it is that there are four animal sources (chicken, lamb, salmon, duck). Not a problem unless you are one to be concerned about what would happen later if an elimination diet is needed. Now two of the more rare proteins often used for these elim. diets (salmon and duck) now can't be. The more animal products a pup is exposed to, the more likely if there is an issue they wilil have to be on a hydrolyzed rx diet.
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