Dog Food

I fed them raw but my dogs were hungry weeks on venison and the odd bit of cooked pork they would eat ya boots

Left field, but chooks love eels. Will peck them clean. Seems like a waste of a precious resource though.

If you want to make your dogs coat shine try salmon heads.

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Originally Posted by omark

Did you feed the eels raw or cooked. I’ve also heard that trout are good as they have a high fat/oil content esp if from the Rotorua lakes

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My son uses the slab trout from Rotorua for snapper bait. Says its wicked. The trout he gets from Tarawera and Otakaina are*smoked. You are right. They are so nice to eat smoked. Think it is the koura they have as a ingredient in their diet.

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Originally Posted by TeRei

My son uses the slab trout from Rotorua for snapper bait. Says its wicked. The trout he gets from Tarawera and Otakaina are*smoked. You are right. They are so nice to eat smoked. Think it is the koura they have as a ingredient in their diet.

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tell him to smoke all of the trout and to use koi carp as bait. seems nuts to pay for a license to catch trout as bait when koi is free

I fillet the trout I catch and give the frame and skin to my lab, she loves it. Really makes her coat shiny

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Originally Posted by Russian 22.

tell him to smoke all of the trout and to use koi carp as bait. seems nuts to pay for a license to catch trout as bait when koi is free

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There are too many trout in Taupo. DOC encourages the taking of trout for that reason. In the streams from taupo to turangi you hear stories of fishermen saying exactly that... caught 30 fish ,all slabs.

as any one on here actually had success with koi carp as bait we tried it of Cape Karikari Kaitaia both berley and bait - this in an area that with a skipjack bait and berley or pilchards would have produced snapper but the koi-- bloody useless

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Originally Posted by Taranaki bushman

I’m feeding my non working heading dog mighty mix biscuits and she is doing well on it. I’ve used black hawk in the past which I think is better but it’s too expensive. Have also tried cop rice and tux but found it makes her crap more and gets that bad dog smell.

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I’ll second this one.

Switched to mighty mix around 1 1/2 years ago now. Dog was struggling with weight fluctuating but that has levelled out now. Seems good quality and the 20kg bags last a Lab at least 6 weeks.

They have a range of concentrated foods too for when the dog is working hard.

Wouldn’t feed a dog tux personally. But then again didn’t give it too much of a chance.

Yeah 2md for mighty mix . Feed my lab 10 biscuits a day .bag lasts about 2 months.
Also snapper heads loves them.
Getting old now not the best fitness wise .