Does anyone know why my 6 mth old dog would need 400grams  of JWB food per day (seems a lot) but only 120grams of Burns food. As you can see the difference is quite alot???  She weighs 12kg!!
Aly xx

Different foods have different ingredients and proportions. Maybe JWB has more lightweight bulky fillers, making the dog feel fuller but also producing more waste?

Hi peacebabe...

i feed burns and was told that dogs should be fed 20grams of food per 1kg of body weight (was told this by burns themselves ) if your pup weighs 12kg she should be on 240grams of burns per day.
you feed less burns as it does have a high proportion of good ingreidients ie chicken or fish and rice and doesnt contain lesser quality stuff like wheat etc :-)

hope that helps

Sorry, i feed 120grams of Burns each meal, (twice a day)!!

aahh thats ok then i did wonder if that was a daily amount lol
:-)

You cannot compare foods unless and until you know the Kcal value of them; 100g of one food does not necessarily equate to 100g of another.  If the food is nutritionally "dense" then less volume is usually required, and vice versa.

The more cereals and undigestable ingredients a food contains, the more you have to feed, to get the same results as a nutritionally dense food minus cheap fillers etc.

Yikes i hope that makes sense???

Yes that makes sense, so Burns is a high quality good food and you can tell cause you don't have to feed that much of it??

But then to add to the confusion, when you read the feeding guides of Iams and Eukanuba, you see very low feeding guides, yet cheaper cereals are present in the foods.

Not quite as simple as that :)  Some dogs do not do well on low residue food, what some people refer to as cheap fillers are in fact there for their fibre value, not intended to be digested at all, certainly I had one dog that became horribly constipated if not on a food with a good fibre content.  The best guide to what constitutes a good food is your dog :)