I've had dogs in my life since I was a child, I'm now 62. What was fed to our dogs has changed over the years, so I've gone from a childhood dog that was fed on things like heart and liver cooked by my mum, through biscuit and tinned food, something that looked more like rabbit food, through a variety of kibble ending up being stuck on Burns lamb and rice with the last dog. Don't get me wrong, I liked Burns and I feel it is a good food to give, but if we tried to change foods then the dog would get an upset tum and start scratching again. We have a motorhome which we use frequently and can't take a large bag of food with us as well as everything else and we keep ending up in a position where the Burns has run out and we can't find a pet shop selling Burns.
That was then. We will be getting a pup hopefully in August if the mum obliges by coming into season soon, and I'm getting the impression from some posts on here, that feeding pups on a wider variety of foods during their early years can hopefully prevent allergic reactions to certain things. Feeding raw completely is not something we can do easily as we spend up to nine months of the year either in the motorhome or our static van neither of which has much room in the fridge or freezer, so will continue with kibble type foods. I've always added raw veg such as carrot and broccoli stems and table scraps if suitable. Is it worth continually changing brands of kibble, say a month on one type and a month on another? I would really like to hear what people think about what to feed dogs and suggestions. I will be sticking to the breeders recommendations initially, but would like to introduce other things later.

I feed predominantly raw and agree that different protein sources is important.  If I were to feed kibble for more than just the odd meal per week I'd feed at least 2 varieties, probably one meat and one fish.

Once I'm happy that the pup/dog can tolerate the food I chose then, for ease of feeding, I'd probably just combine the different types of kibble in the same container and feed a mixture, or I'd alternate each meal.  It would make sense to run short trial periods first though until you're comfortable you won't get an adverse reaction :)

I do think that dogs benefit from variety and it certainly helps if you get caught out away from home.  Puppies that are fed a mixture of tastes and textures have to be at an advantage when it comes to feeding although its true that some seem to be born fussy :)

Your dog feeding history sounds like mine for the first stage...the whole meal kibble mixed with tinned food ...then a trial on dry kibble...then I went home cooked  .
I have recently got a new pup and the breeder  recommended dry kibble (im using arcana)mixed with boiled chicken(or lamb,beef etc) plus small boiled pasta( I use digitali) and courgettes and carrots (boiled...).
The pup loves his food and my old girl is also eating with renewed interest.

I would most definately keep my young growing puppy on a variety of foods including home cooked, raw, mixed vegetables (cooked and raw) and a variety of kibbles for "convienience".
Of course all of these would have to be introduced carefully.
I remember as a child in the 50s (I am 63 now ) our dog would have all scraps from our plates and the most modern tinned food (Pal) with terrier type biscuites. I don't remember the dog being fat and he probably didn't have any allergies either as so many of the kibble fed dogs of today. I also remember in the 60s my mother would boil a pan of Horsemeat every week for the dogs ( a luxury that is almost impossible to obtain these days) ! 
I think variety of all kinds is very good and our dogs can still be "healthy"!
How boring it must be having dry or moist cereal based kibble every day, again and again and again.
Most of our modern day vets are "conditioned" at college, and many of us too into believing that a ballanced kibble diet is natural and best.
                                                                                                                                                                          What a load of nonsence!  :(

Best wishes.

I too can remember when dogs were fed meat from the knackers yard, dinner scraps plus any other food left overs, to bulk it up they had terrier biscuit . Puppies were weaned on to puppy terrier meal with milk added .
I feed currently  tripe cooked veg  plus herbs they also have raw carrot  plenty of bones as food and marrow bones as recreational bones.
I do feed pups that I am not keeping on kibble as people  expect.

>my mother would boil a pan of Horsemeat every week for the dogs

In the 70's my poodles regularly had horsemeat, tripe, beef etc from the slaughterhouse.  Alas BSE stopped all that!

I remember that the only top up was mixer biscuits, not the balanced kibble we get today.  But they did look good on it.  I remember that they were not allowed to sell the meat raw, it had to be cooked.  One Sunday morning when I had been to collect a huge slab of beef, I left the meat in the kitchen to cool before bagging up in portions for the freezer.

I had a couple of people coming to look at the guinea pigs.  They had to walk through the kitchen to get out to the pig shed.  One of them said, oh your Sunday joint smells wonderful!  :-)

Another who remembers feeding horsemeat when we had a family dog in early 60s.
There used to be a little shop that only sold pet meat, tripe and bones.
It was my job to get the meat every week and it was a large slab of raw horse meat wrapped in newspaper! If you were lucky it hadn't leaked too much by the time you got home
Had to cut it into smaller pieces so it would fit into the saucepan to boil. I think we used to feed it with winalot(?) meal and any table scraps that were left.

Yes, "The Good old days" life was much easier and more sensible !!

> Another who remembers feeding horsemeat when we had a family dog in early 60s.

And another one here! I remember the horsemeat coming with a green stain - not for human consumption. Funny how we've gone almost full circle with the dogs' diet. I'd never go back to kibble now. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.