Can you contact the companies you've looked at and ask them for a breakdown of ingredients? I would think they would be more than happy to provide that. At least a good company should be.
Jeff Cambeis Webboard User Reg: 03-12-2008
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IMO when considering what supplements to give, I generally want to stay as close as possible too natural diet as I can.
That requires some thought. Even a 100% raw diet, is not IMO sufficient to be considered natural.
We can compare some chicken quarters and frozen organ meat with, for argument sake, a whole rabbit. The whole rabbit offers nutritional values that the chicken simply combination can not compete with.
That rabbit lets say we feeding on nuts, seeds and grasses. His gut would be full of digestive enzymes, sugars, bacteria and other nutrients. This relates back to the thread about Vita E. We need to supplement what the dog is not getting but should be.
I personally cheat on the traditional RMB diet. I feed high quality kibble (evo) about 10-20% of the time.
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Quote: jeff cambeis
IMO when considering what supplements to give, I generally want to stay as close as possible too natural diet as I can.
That requires some thought. Even a 100% raw diet, is not IMO sufficient to be considered natural.
We can compare some chicken quarters and frozen organ meat with, for argument sake, a whole rabbit. The whole rabbit offers nutritional values that the chicken simply combination can not compete with.
Absolutelt correct. There are many threads here explaining that the modern diet (for dogs and humans) is now unnaturally unbalanced between Omega 3s and Omega 6s, and poultry is even richer in 6s than other slaughter animals. Wild prey and slaughter animals that are range-fed rather than grain-fed store Es in the meat and fat; this is lost to most modern diets.
And the nuts, seeds, and grasses that are lost generate a Vitamin E loss.
So supplementing with fish oil (for long-chain Omega 3s) and Vitamin E, both to help protect the PUFAs in oil supplements and to stand in for the lost prey contents, is what is recommended in the LB diet, a diet that I think is extremely well-thought-out in terms of both macro- and micronutrients.
I love to give green tripe (micronutrients "on the hoof," if you will) but do not always have a supply. I do, however, give a little produce, carefully chosen, to replicate what the wild canid would get in his diet.
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