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« on: February 23, 2007, 06:04: PM »

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I'm planning a change of diet for my bulldog pupy.He is currently 6 and a half months and has been eating a mixture of pedigree chum wet and complete puppy food. After many hours of reading I have decided to change him to Burns and going to mix this into his food over the next 7 days and then just leave him on Burns Dry food.

I just wanted to know what everyone who uses Burns (as there seems a lot of people that use it), how much do you feed your dogs and hoe often? i.e do you use the guidelines that are with the packet.

Also it says to feed a large dog (My Bulldog is between 25 and 30kg now) of 6 months the adult version of the food. Does everyone think this would be ok or would it be best to put him ont he puppy version of it?

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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2007, 03:35: PM »

I wouldn't feed the adult,Burns told me to do this with my pup,he lost weight on it the protein is only 18%in the adult which I think is too low for a growing pup,Burns is a fab food and really helped with my dogs health problems,the only problem was he was underweight,when I spoke to Fiona at Burns she said he should of been on the puppy or large breed puppy not adult until he was at least 10months if not longer,good luck with your changeover
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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2007, 03:37: PM »

Burns is good yes. Only thing I find is that i do have to feed slightly more (about an half an ounce to an ounce) each day than the feeding guidelines on the packet recommends...but that may not be the case for everyone - you'll find out soon enough. If the tummy gets swollen looking, or poos turn soft, you've probably fed too much.
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2007, 04:52: PM »

It is not the protein content you need to worry about in growing dogs but the overall calorific density of food.

For example you would need to eat a lorra lorra lettuce to get any calories out it but not a very large amount of butter.

(Hence why cows etc have to spend 23 hours a day eating!)
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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2007, 05:07: PM »

Before i got my puppy i was wondering what to feed her too, so i sent off to many of the companies for samples of their foods. I ended up with packets of Burns, Purina, Eukanuba (sp?) James Welbelloved, Fish4dogs treats.

I ended up deciding to feed Maya raw, but as an experiment i laid out one of each of the dry kibble a few times. Without fail every time Maya will go for the Burns high energy lamb.

Unless there is a chicken wing on the go and then she'll ignore all the dry foods.
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2007, 12:44: PM »

i used to feed what the pacet said but he didnt used to finish it but if he did u would give him a few extra it Smiley as long as ur feeding for the corect age range then u should be fine every ddo s difrent and just experament with how much u give him Smiley

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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2007, 12:51: PM »

I feed mine burns, plus veggies and sometimes fish etc. However I feed so that they are always ready for the next meal, in other words about 10% than what any packet says. I also use the kibble as the training treats.
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