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Blue Buffalo Question Hello! New member here, first time posting. I have a question about Coco's meals. I've used a dog food calculator to calculate the amount of calories he should intake per day for his ideal weight, and I got around 240 calories. I did a bit of calculations based on the calories in both the Blue Buffalo puppy dry food as well as the Blue Buffalo puppy wet food, and I wanted other people's opinions on whether or not what I did makes sense. Anyways, there are 580 cals/can in the BB wet food and 438 cals/cup in the BB dry food. As mentioned above, Coco needs about 240 cals per day. Does it make sense to give a quarter cup of the dry (109.5 cals) and a quarter of the can of the wet (145 cals)? Adding those up would be 254.5 cals for the day, spread apart for his 2 meals a day. A little bit over the 240 cals he should ideally intake, but did I do the right math? Or does it make a huge difference since the wet food is cals/can and not cals/cup?? Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks! |
Hi and WELCOME to YT :)! If you convert the can to cals/cup, you'll get a more accurate measurement in the end. BUT, given you're able to calculate a 1/4th of the can, you're probably close enough anyway :). |
Thanks for the welcome! I figured what I did would get me close enough to the actual measurement. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something completely wrong because it seemed a little too easy. Lol. Thanks for your resposne! :) |
Looks good to me! When Toki was a puppy, I also fed her the BB puppy kibble and supplemented it with canned food. We didn't go through the cans very quickly so I ended up freezing a lot of it. What I did was I took a 1 tablespoon (1/2 oz) ice cream scoop thing and scooped out an entire can onto a baking sheet to put in the freezer and then transferred the little balls to a baggy. I divided the number of calories per can by the number of tablespoons I got to get the calories in each little portion and wrote that on the freezer baggy. That was helpful in determining how much dry/wet food I needed to use per meal to have a certain number of calories. The frozen wet food balls also made nice little teething treats! These days I feed Toki mostly canned food and use a kitchen scale to weigh out her portions. It's hard for me to eyeball amounts in the can so I just weigh it...we try to keep her weight down since she has joint issues so I want to be as precise as possible. But if you know that you're going to use 1 can every 2 days, it's not a big deal at all to just eyeball it...you might give slightly more or less per serving but it'll all balance out. |
How much does Coco weigh? My Bailey weighs 12.5 lbs and gets the Buffalo Blue senior grain free no preservatives. He gets 1/3 cup level scoop twice a day. |
Coco's about 6 lbs now and will be turning 6 months in June. I didn't realize he had grown so much since the last time I weighed him so i'm gonna up his calorie intake a bit. |
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