best diet

[jim91 2]

Hi just wondering what sort of diet is better for working lurchers eg from when they are pups to been adults in the fields

 

cheers

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Home made

 

Mine get the following, not always to the letter but something fairly similar...

 

Mornings...

 

1) Cooked Lamb, Rice and Veg

2) Eggs and Brown Bread

3) Cooked Lamb, Rice and Veg

4) Tin Fish in Tomatoe and Brown Bread

5) Cooked Lamb, Rice and Veg

6) Mixed Offal and Brown Bread

7) Cooked Lamb, Rice and Veg

 

Evenings...

 

1) Minced Chicken with Bone

2) Tripe

3) Chicken Wings

4) Minced Chicken with Bone

5) Tripe

6) Chicken Wings

7) Butchers Scraps Minus Offal (mainly steak)

 

I cook a massive pot of brown rice, veg and lamb mince once every few weeks. Costs a few quid and bags up into 20 odd bags.

 

Gaz

[jim91 2]

cheers good information there mate, what about from a pup how many times a day should be fed and whats best for them

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

When I get my whippet pup I will be feeding exactly the same but with a third meal inbetween.

 

Probably a meal of minced chicken with bone, plenty of calcium for growing pup.

 

Gaz

[Country Joe 1,411]

When I get my whippet pup I will be feeding exactly the same but with a third meal inbetween.

 

Probably a meal of minced chicken with bone, plenty of calcium for growing pup.

 

Gaz

When I get my whippet pup I will be feeding exactly the same but with a third meal inbetween.

 

Probably a meal of minced chicken with bone, plenty of calcium for growing pup.

 

Gaz

If your pup will be getting bone, i wouldn't see the need to give plenty Calcium,

My Whippet is 13 Months, ive not long cut out the middle meal,

He gets two raw Chicken wings for breakfast,

and an evening meal of a pound of minced Beef or Chicken, a good handful of small biscuit, and raw Carrot and spinach,

and Keepers mix twice a week.

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

I wasn't saying give extra calcium mate.

 

I was saying give minced chicken and bone as source of calcium

[Country Joe 1,411]

I wasn't saying give extra calcium mate.

 

I was saying give minced chicken and bone as source of calcium

I wasn't saying give extra calcium mate.

 

I was saying give minced chicken and bone as source of calcium

Sorry, picked you up wrong.

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

No worries mate. Might be how I wrote it.

[BORDERSCOT 3,816]

Raw and bones!!!! You can't go wrong with this diet. Too many folk overthink and over complicate what they feed their dogs and others simply scoop shit out of 15kg bags into dog bowls. Simple - raw and bones. All the best.

[sandymere 8,263]

A diet should contain the right mix of protein, fat and carbohydrate, this can be gained from a home prepared diet of meat, veg and a carb source such as pasta, rice etc or from a commercial complete or a mix of both. The source is less important than the right mix and it being presented in a digestible form. The well respected specialist greyhound vet John Kohnke states “ studies concluded that a dry food based diet, which contained 42% of the energy from carbohydrates, 33% from fat and 24% from protein, provided the best dietary balance to optimize speed and performance over a standard 500 meter race distance.

Arleigh Reynolds, DVM, PhD, DACVN

Jill Cline, PhD suggest “ An appropriate feeding regime for sprint type canine athletes consists of a diet that contains approximately 25% calories from protein, 30% calories from fat and 45% calories from carbohydrates”

[Indie Pup 8]

Hi trying to work out the best diet for my lurcher pup and I have one question when feeding chicken wings do you mince them or....??

[Carraghs Gem 1,675]

Breakfast: chicken wing, chopped heart, tongue, liver

Lunch: pasta with poached egg

Dinner: gain puppy and sapling complete dry biscuit

Supper tinned sardines and rice

 

All small meals, hes doing alright in it