I agree with Johan, feed with your eyes, not your measuring cup/scales. Assuming the dog has been cleared of parasites or other issues, if they are to skinny, increase the amount you are feeding. If they are to fat, decrease it. If needed break it up into multiple meals, I find they get more out of the food that way.
"teenage" Malinois can be hard to keep weight on. I've had some that I was feeding what seemed like insane amounts of food to just to keep them looking like they actually got fed once in awhile, and others were never a problem. Boys seem to be worse then girls. Most of them do slow down a little in the food intake once they mature. I've done kibble, raw, and a combination of both. I've actually found the combination to work the best with "hard keepers", not sure why. When I was doing raw only it wasn't unusual to feed up to 6 chicken quarters in a day, or the equivalent in other meats/bone, to some of the dogs.
I second Kadi's opinion that the combo works best w/hard keepers. I have 2 boys, one especially, that waste away to nothing on all raw or all kibble. It's either insane amounts of kibble, which I don't like to feed, or seriously, like 5lbs of raw per day, which is also insane. On a combo, I can feed about 2lbs raw and a few cups of kibble and the dog looks pretty damn good.
I have also had success feeding Caleb (hardest keeper, and a big freakin' dog) WHOLE chickens...but again, they're about 5lbs apiece, and pretty expensive.
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Re: 8 month old Mal very thin
[Re: Aaron Myracle ]
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