I fed Purina One, but switched toExtreme dog fuel and it made my dogs fat, crap through a screen door, and crapping all the time.. Some friends in my HRC sell it and I got a bit of a price break. Not worth it. Their TEETH started looking bad as well. Some dogs may do well on it but mine certainly did not. watch their teeth.

I went back to Purina One,my dogs have always done well with it(Chicken And Rice) but recently got fed up with the price for a 37.5#.

I am now halfway through my first bag of Loyall. I am very pleased so far with the Adult maintenance, and will switch to the Performance or Professional come season if they keep doing well. My 2 pups are doing well on the Puppy as well.
http://www.loyallpetfood.com/Screens/Products/adultmaintenance.aspx


I'm a stickler for labels as well. I've learned that anything over 3% fiber is hard on my dogs.

Since everyone told me my old brand was not very good (ole roy) I switched to Pro Plan Performance.

I switched back to Pro Plan and could see an improvement in my dogs within a day. That is it, I am not trying anything else.

Has anyone fed Eukanuba Sporting? I've been hearing good stuff about it. The price is up there though.

I feed Diamond Naturals Chicken and Rice these days and have had real good luck with it.

Ingredients
Chicken, chicken meal, whole grain brown rice, white rice, cracked pearled barley, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), oatmeal, beet pulp, egg product, flaxseed, natural chicken flavor, fish meal, potassium chloride, choline chloride, vitamin E supplement, iron proteinate, zinc proteinate, copper proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide, thiamine mononitrate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, ascorbic acid, vitamin A supplement, biotin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, sodium selenite, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin, vitamin D supplement, folic acid.

Crude Protein 26.0% Minimum
Crude Fat 16.0% Minimum
Crude Fiber 3.0% Maximum
Moisture 10.0% Maximum
Zinc 150 mg/kg Minimum
Selenium 0.4 mg/kg Minimum
Vitamin E 150 IU/kg Minimum
Omega-6 Fatty Acids * 2.5% Minimum
Omega-3 Fatty Acids * 0.4% Minimum

I second the Diamond Naturals Chicken and Rice. I had to switch to a non corn based dog food becasue my BLF is allergic to corn. During duck season I feed her the diamond naturals extreme athelete 32 fat 25 protein.

32% fat

oops. I had dyslexia.. 32 protein 25 fat.

I work for a company that sells them all. eukanuba, Iams, nutro, science diet, Fromm, etc. By far the brand that has the fewest returns and die hard customers is eukanuba. If you want to go with a cheaper but still good food try enhance hunters edge. Like I say it is not as good as euk but it retails for around 22 bucks for 50# compared to 45 or so for 40# of euk.

We are feeding our yellow lab Hill's Science Diet Large Breed Puppy Food and are seeing excellent results. I have been a Purina man most of my life but I like this better that anything I have used that Purina makes. She has a beautiful coat, her energy has been good during her training. Overall she just looks like the dog you would see at a top AKC/UKC dog show. I couldn't ask for better, and no weird things going on with her digestive system. We fed her Purina Puppy Chow when we first got her and fought diareha the whole time.
Heres' some of the info on it:
Ingredients

Ground Whole Grain Corn, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken Liver Flavor, Animal Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Fish Oil, Flaxseed, Soybean Oil, Iodized Salt, Potassium Chloride, L-Lysine, vitamins (L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement), Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, L-Tryptophan, minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid, L-Carnitine, Calcium Carbonate, Beta-Carotene, Rosemary Extract.

Average Nutrient Contents didn't turn out right on a cut and paste so heres' a link to that page:

http://www.hillspet.com/hillspet/products/productDetails.hjsp?PRODUCT<>prd_id=845524441760401

so you are feeding your pup a food where the main two of three first ingredients is corn??? Which has basically NO nutritional value (aka: filler)!! Dogs are carnivores... feed them something with meat in it... not corn.

seen real good results with goat's milk and fresh beef or you can buy the beef that's not for human consumption. they sale it with coal in it. but if you have a freezer and access to cattle (my buddy's grandpa had a deal were anytime a cow went down if they let him know with in a couple of hours he would run and pick it up,it sucked to butcher them but the fresh beef worked well) it was a lot of work,that's why he finally switched to just buying the wholesale beef. but all these dog's were in good shape all the time. and the goat's milk worked real well for the puppy's. even one's that looked like they wouldn't make it,i would bring them home and bottle feed them and they would usually turn out fine.

science diet is Sh** food.Vets get kickbacks and thats why you see most vets offices selling it but I bet money most of them dont feed there own dogs science diet.

IT may be, but it sure grows a beautiful energetic dog!!!!!!!!!