Blue Buffalo

[danjr68]

What about blue buffalo food? Is it a good quality food?

[Lopsi]

I have not tried it or heard of it, but I did a quick search online. Here's the ingredients in the puppy food:

Ingeredients

Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Whole Ground Brown Rice, Whole Ground Barley, Oatmeal, Rye, Whole Potatoes, Chicken Fat (preserved with Natural Mixed Tocopherols), Menhaden Fish Meal (natural source of DHA-Docosahexaneoic Acid), Tomato Pomace (natural source of Lycopene), Natural Chicken Flavor, Whole Carrots, Whole Sweet Potatoes, Dried Egg, Blueberries, Cranberries, Flaxseed, Barley Grass, Dried Parsley, Alfalfa Meal, Kelp Meal, Taurine, L-Carnitine, L-Lysine, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Green Tea Extract, Turmeric, Garlic, Sunflower Oil (natural source of Omega 6 Fatty Acids), Herring Oil (natural source of Omega 3 Fatty Acids), Dried Chicory Root, Black Malted Barley, Oil of Rosemary, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin C, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Beta Carotene, Calcium Ascorbate (source of Vitamin C), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin (Vitamin B3), Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B5), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Folic Acid, Biotin, Choline Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Zinc Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Zinc), Iron Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Iron), Copper Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Copper), Manganese Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Manganese), Potassium Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Potassium), Cobalt Proteinate (source of Chelated Cobalt), Dicalcium Phosphate, Potassium Chloride, Sodium Selenite, Salt, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bacillus subtilis, Bifidobacterium thermophilum, Bifidobacterium longum, Enterococcus faecium.

If I were looking at this in the store, it would be in my considerations. I do not feed my dogs anything with by-products or corn, which that doesn't have. I also make sure that meat (generally chicken) is the first ingredient in whatever food I purchase. I'm not a pro, but I would feed it to my dogs.

[trinabinabear88]

I feed it and have for quite some time. My puppy is very picky and for a while stopped eating it. They never eat the lifesource bits even now. I just switched to the small breed adult and she loves it. I really like this food. If you go to their website you can have them send you a 5 dollar off coupon.

[danjr68]

How long did you keep them on the puppy food?

[Nancy1999]

I'm curious to know what people think of this food too. It's rated high on some sites, but not sure what the credentials are of the people rating it. It's rated higher than the food I now give Joey, but he's doing so well, I'm hesitant to change.

[danjr68]

My girls really like it. My baby Mya 3.5 months old loves it. She eats 4-6 kibbles and becomes supercharged.

[Nancy1999]

I also would like to know why potatoes are thought to be better than corn? They are both considered a "starch". I understand that some yorkies are allergic to corn, just as some people are allergic to peanuts, but this does not make peanuts bad. Yet in the case of corn, this seems to make it a bad ingredient. How or why are potatoes superior besides the allergy factor?

[trinabinabear88]

Originally Posted by danjr68

How long did you keep them on the puppy food?

i just switched and she is 15 months old.

[ForeverAngels]

We us Blue Buffalo puppy formula for princess. She seems to like it fine. I chose it because it is organtic and we feed our toy poodle the adult formula. Given the chance princess goes CRAZY for the adult formula.......it must really taste good........LOL!

[carmen in nj]

my vet suggested that I keep Prada on puppy food until she is One year, my son did that with his Alaskan malamute too.. Prada eats innova puppy and then she will eat innova regular like my 6 year old.
hugs,
CArmen in nj

[Potter]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

I also would like to know why potatoes are thought to be better than corn? They are both considered a "starch". I understand that some yorkies are allergic to corn, just as some people are allergic to peanuts, but this does not make peanuts bad. Yet in the case of corn, this seems to make it a bad ingredient. How or why are potatoes superior besides the allergy factor?

Personally, I don't think potato is superior to corn. They are both starch you are right. The only reason I can think of is more dogs may be prone to allergy to corn than to potato. If your dog has no problem with corn, you may opt for corn rather than starch. My dog is allergic to oat for whatever reason...he itches like crazy if he eats anything that contain a lot of oat in it.

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by Potter

Personally, I don't think potato is superior to corn. They are both starch you are right. The only reason I can think of is more dogs may be prone to allergy to corn than to potato. If your dog has no problem with corn, you may opt for corn rather than starch. My dog is allergic to oat for whatever reason...he itches like crazy if he eats anything that contain a lot of oat in it.

Ok thanks for your reply, this goes along with what I've been reading.

[jlafred]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

I'm curious to know what people think of this food too. It's rated high on some sites, but not sure what the credentials are of the people rating it. It's rated higher than the food I now give Joey, but he's doing so well, I'm hesitant to change.

I tried feeding mine Blue Buffalo but they also would not eat the lifesource bits (the little black pieces) so I took them off of it cuz I figured they wouldnt be getting ALL the nutrients without it. They now are on INNOVA Red Meat Small Bites and doing great on it! This is the only food I have found that both of them will eat for more than a few days! Also I add a few drops of Welactin 3 to it for the Omega oil for their coat. But personally Nancy, if what you use now is working fine then I wouldnt change it. God bless and have a great day!

[chloesMama]

I went through about two bags of Blue Buffalo ( puppy and Wilderness) but my dogs never seemed to really enjoy eating it and they hated the Lifesource bits , they left them laying all over the floor. I got so tired of stepping on them and sweeping them up that I started picking them out of the food , so I figured it was time to switch.

I do think it's a good food as long as your dogs will eat the lifesource bits

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by jlafred

I tried feeding mine Blue Buffalo but they also would not eat the lifesource bits (the little black pieces) so I took them off of it cuz I figured they wouldnt be getting ALL the nutrients without it. They now are on INNOVA Red Meat Small Bites and doing great on it! This is the only food I have found that both of them will eat for more than a few days! Also I add a few drops of Welactin 3 to it for the Omega oil for their coat. But personally Nancy, if what you use now is working fine then I wouldnt change it. God bless and have a great day!

He's on one of the middle of the road foods, and doing really good on it, and if I had never read Yorkietalk, I would never had any thoughts about switching. I often think of trying a higher rated food, but I'm so afraid he'll have problems. If age has taught me nothing else, it has taught me that unless there is solid scientific proof to back up a nutritional claim, it's probably hogwash. So I'm so skepical.