What does anybody feed their lab?  I ask because i'm fed up of buying expensive food (Burns)  and Molly supplementing it with anything and everything, animal, vegetable and mineral.  I have tried jwb but that didn't agree with her.  I was thinking of Beta,  it has good large nuggets which she would have to chew and you feed quite a lot, which hopefully would fill her tum a bit. 

Thanks for your thoughts.

Any labrador that doesnt try and supplement its diet (however good it is) with all sorts of unmentionable rubbish is probably dead! I doubt that a change of diet will stop your dog 'eating for England'. :-)

However, in answer to your question I personally feed Masters (approx £13 for 15KG) to my (working) labradors.

Ditto Havoc! I use their Meaty Crunch during the summer thn change to Performance Plus during the shooting season. Masters is not that easy to find. After winning a sack of Skinners Ruff and Ready in a working test and being part Scots ;) I decided to feed it and I was quite pleased with it. If I could not get Masters then that would be the food I would get.

Regards, John

I feed my older lab on royal canin labrador 30,it is exspensive though supposed to be good for weight control.
Sheila.

Not doubting that it's a good food Labrador, I just cannot believe that labelling a feed "Labrador" is anything other than a marketing ploy. A Labrador is no different to a Flatcoat, a Golden or for that matter virtually any other dog in its requirement and a good quality food will satisfy its needs.

Regards, John

  John
          the Skinners Ruff and Ready dosent Qualify for Vat free Status which i would have thought a part scots man would have noticed , i feed Skinners field and trial Maintainance in the summer and country Recipe in the shooting season both Vat free of course could be the tight fisted yorkshire man in me

   Yorker

You surprise me Yorker. As I said, I won it at a working test so have never got around to putting my hand in my sporran. I just assumed that as they were giving it away at a place like that then it would be! You live and learn.

Regards, John

I'm trying out Beta Adult Chicken & Rice,  mixed a little in with Burns Chicken & Rice.  She actually seems to prefer the Beta, picking out all the large nuggets.
So hopefully it'll suit her and save a few pennies at the same time.

i feed my lab on nature diet and he adores it he also has a tin of fish once a week and veg on a sunday

I feed my two labs Beta sometimes with a little meat added (ped chum) for variety and they seem to thrive on it. :)

Mine are fed raw meat/fish/veg/fruit & any leftovers from our meals :)

Christine, Spain.

Urghh,  since trying the new food (Beta) the amount of poos have quadrupled.  I don't mind 2 or 3 a day, but five or six !!

I think I should just stop messing about with the food and leave her lively and lean on Burns.

Isnt Beta full of colourings and preservatives etc? I dont know much about most of those type of commercial foods.
I hazard to guess that the first ingredient is some kind of grain and the meat part is a derivative and/or by-product,all of these things arent very digestable,hence all the poop, in one end and straight out the other :(

Have you tried eaglepack www.postalpets.co.uk  alot of dogs do well on it. If you decide to stick with Burns,why not supplement with fresh foods,such as rmb's and raw or cooked meat and veg and maybe a little pasta.No rice, there's enough of that in the food as it is.

No, Beta is plain brown.

Right, I've just bought a tray of chicken wings (tesco value).   Should I just let her have one now,  or wait till teatime and feed it with her Burns.  Also as I'm going to freeze them, can I feed  them frozen?  I dont think the wings will be a large part of her diet,  I thought maybe a wing or two every other day?  She also gets a tin of sardines a week plus a raw marrow bone (sometimes 2) a week.  She has 270grms of Burns split into 2 meals.   Does this sound about right?.

I'ves never given chicken wings before so am  a little nervous, however, Mollys quite used to eating raw mice etc so probably wont have a problem!

Thanks for your help.     

I wouldn't feed wings with complete food as they are digested at different rates or so I've heard. Give the wing as a midday snack maybe
Anne

Hi Mrs Mop

My two labs were on autarky, but I have recently changed to the Natural dog food companies, all in one. Now my bitch smells a lot better. It is designed to be mixed with BARF type extras they find it really tasty and produce one or 2 poos per dog  per day, which are not by any means unplesant. If they are going to be doing a had days work I give them a bowl of porridge made with water in the morning as this is slow release and helps keep them going.

DONT feed chicken wings frozen - when training my lab ate a frozen pigeon and that came out the back end at twice the speed it went in the front! Mine tend to have their bones when they will have a chance to lie down and enjoy them, so afternoon or evenings. I find appart from anything else if you feed with the kibble they dig out the bones and wander off to eat them then who ever finishes the bone first gets to eat both kibbles, so it becomes too much of a race and we end up seeing it all again.

Mainly meat based foods do not suit all dogs, Rose, Beta and Chappie were just about the only foods tolerated by my colitis suffering terrier, she lived to 15 on it which was about 14 more years than I expected at one point :)
That is the beauty of complete foods there is almost always one to suit the varying needs of different dogs.

Whats that dry food called thats all different colours? Is it winalot?

I currently feed Luna, my lab, Nutro Chicken&Rice.....

But she's having some itching problems. So will change to a wheat-, gluten- and cornfree brand...

Can only find 2 brands like that in DK . The one I've chosen is danish. The other is american: Regal

Am still thinking about barf....