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Only kibble ok? hey guys here I go with my food questions again. Abby has been on wellness turkey for a couple of months now. She eats it with cottage cheese. Anyway we got jack two weeks ago n he seems to get upset tummy n diarrhea wen he eats the kibble. Well he's been eatin canidae all life stages Kibble all his life he's about to b three on late October. Anyway abby is starting to gobble up thekibble. She is dpi g fine withthe slow transition. Anyway they also eat chicken n love it. Ok so to my main question I go... Is it ok to just feed them the canidae kibble and chicken? I wanna make sure that they get all the nutrients they need. I've heard nothing but great stuff about this kibble and I wanna make sure I'm doing the right thing. |
I've heard good things about Canidae also. It would be so much easier if they were on the same food -- so I'd give it a try. Watch for any bad reaction. |
So he does fine on the Canidae kibble but not Wellness - do I have that right? If so, I'd keep him on the Canidae - it's a nice food. As far as adding in cottage cheese and chicken: adding real food is great - you just want to remember that when the "real food" starts to exceed about 15-20% of the overall diet, you really should be supplementing and balancing the cal/phos ratio, bc it's probably out of balance at that point. :) |
he's been on canidae kibble but the welllness is wet food. Sorry I forgot to mention that. ABby has no prob w the kibble but he has prob with the wet food. I've been wanting to take ABby off the wet food anyway cuz I don't like the idea of her eating too much cottage cheese. She will not touch the wet food unless it has the cheese. As for the part about the 15%-20% thing.... HUH???? LOL I think I need that run by me once more I didn't get that. Shud I be adding something to the chicken? |
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Well, the dog food you're feeding is balanced nutritionally already - especially the calcium/phosphorous ratio (which is what people always have to be vigilant about when feeding only homecooked food). So, when you start adding *real* food to their kibble (which is balanced) - you start to change the balance. It's fine to add *some* real food - but when you start to hit a point where more than 15-20% of their food is coming from *real* food, you're tipping the balance too far - and then you need to figure out supplementation to bring it back into balance (calcium/phosphorous etc). Does that help? I hope it makes sense, it can be confusing... |
Ok so then I will only feed them one chicken breast once a day. That good? I usuLly split it 60% to 40% jack getting more cuz he's about 7lbs while Abby is about 3.6 lbs. Wud that be ok? Or am I upsetting all that stuff u mentioned? Gees I need to learn nutritional stuff. Maybe that's y I'm a fata$$ LOL. Ok it's not funny tho I shud work out or something |
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If Abby eats about 1/2 cup kibble per day, even 1/8 cup of chicken might be too much. Could you cut up the chicken and give them a couple heaping spoonfuls? |
i can try feeding them less but its hard to wen they keep lookin at u to give them more. wat suppliments do u recommend?? |
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I actually forgot to mention but the diarrhea has gone away! We realized that the wet food had given it. We don't give him as much. He will only get a little bit for breakfast and so will abby. I'm just waiting for the can to finish to completely take it away. |
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