Thread: What are you feeding your working dogs?

Originally Posted by el borracho

punishment -ear pinch,toe pull and e collar,Ive used them all not to abuse but to teach -I dont like e collar but my dog does wear one

The day I had to resort to that I'd give up... all of it.

Originally Posted by Dougie

I don't have a gun dog, never said I did,

You've noted where you are though aye?

Originally Posted by Ruff

You've noted where you are though aye?

Yup and thanks

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Mighty Mix is the best dog food I have used. Have used it almost exclusively for the last 15 or so years, other than scraps from when I manage to kill something. I will try to track down some details on it and post it up.

I use it when the dogs are going to be worked hard but my Chessie acts like his throat's been cut when I do as you don't need to feed them much of it and he's a bottomless pit

Originally Posted by Dougie

Yup and thanks

Faark, look at the the figures for mighty mix concentrate, no wonder you half the meal size while feeding it!

Originally Posted by Pointer

Faark, look at the the figures for mighty mix concentrate, no wonder you half the meal size while feeding it!

Yep she's good shit that stuff, and a complete diet.

Originally Posted by Ruff

I don't. I never use punishment.

I train, I train gun dogs under high distraction and under stimulus of prey drive in a high prey drive dog bred to have high prey drive for countless generations where food becomes irrelevant very quickly to such high inherent prey drives and knowledge and dog handling skills come into play to get a canine working on side with the handler for the same result. this can never be achieved with two things.. punishment or food... no good gun dog ever born gave two shits about a cube of Posyum in a high prey drive situation...

The penny drops (For me).........................
Clark, you should explain this phyilosofy (Sp) in more detail when replying to requests for help.
I hear what you are saying......................
BTW how's Ducati Mark? Send him my best please, I hear he's getting married.............

Originally Posted by Bulltahr

The penny drops (For me).........................
Clark, you should explain this phyilosofy (Sp) in more detail when replying to requests for help.
I hear what you are saying......................
BTW how's Ducati Mark? Send him my best please, I hear he's getting married.............

In what way do you need more info????

Only spoke to mark a couple of months ago... I have been off the road since the magistrate took such a dim view of how I parked my Jeep in a ditch... so haven;t got out to Athenree in a bit.

I feed mine mighty mix and give them bones to chew. was getting minced up chicken leftovers from the butcher but they needed over a kg a day to keep condition when working hard

My sister mentioned some biscuits I had never heard of when she visited today. Bull Bars. They are very high protein.

One thing she noticed was that her Bullmastiff stopped being as smelly within a couple of weeks - and Bullmastiffs do have quite a 'body odour'.

Might be worth checking out but apparently it only comes in 40kg bags for $100.

Well after a couple of weeks on the ekanuba I have seen a big improvement with her energy level and her recovery time, thanks all for your help.