Re: Dog food $75 a bag
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07/12/23 05:32 PM
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if you get over here to WI , any time soon , check out mounds , the Dog Power is running 63 a bag and it meets or exceeds the fancy name foods
the vet said feed the new puppy large breed puppy food it was 75 for a 35 pound bag
I compared it to the Dog power all life stages and Dog power had everything or more for all the mineral levels and such by a few percent
I showed this to the vet and they agreed
$63 35 pound bag they had a customer appreciation sale at 53 a bag so I bought a few and every 11th bag is free even if you buy all 10 bags at once the 11th is free go grab it and add it to the pile rigth then.
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Re: Dog food $75 a bag
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07/12/23 05:39 PM
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It was less expensive for us to feed our, recently passed, German Shepherd out of the kitchen rather than out of a bag. She seemed to appreciate meals a little more, too. LOL
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Re: Dog food $75 a bag
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07/12/23 06:24 PM
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I buy dog food by the ton, and get a discount that way. I have fed different dog feeds through the years, Kasco, Black Gold, Hi Standard, and PKC to name a few, but mainly for the last twenty years I have fed Diamond High Energy. Not necessarily the best dog food out there, but I can run my hounds six to seven days a week and keep weight on them feeding it, so it is obviously fairly good. Even buying it by the ton though it is almost up to $40 a 50lb bag now. It was either 38 or 39 when I called a week or two ago to see about ordering another ton. I was paying $26 two years ago. . . and they claim there is minimal inflation!
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Re: Dog food $75 a bag
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07/12/23 06:42 PM
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I check feed samples regularly for my job and have took some samples from a company named Royal and that dog food was priced at 20 pounds for $129.00. I am afraid my dog would be finding another home at that price. That's over 6.00 a pound,might as well buy hamburger.
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Re: Dog food $75 a bag
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07/12/23 06:49 PM
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You can buy chickens, ducks and turkeys for much, much less a pound. You can get 10,000 spent layers, weighing on average 4.68 pounds each, for $2500.00. You can get beef, goat, sheep and rabbit for cheaper too. It's work, but much cheaper to make your own food.
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Re: Dog food $75 a bag
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07/12/23 07:57 PM
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If dog food keeps going up I am gonna reinstate the slop bucket next to the stove. My grandma used to bring over a gallon ice cream bucket or 2 a week of slop for dad to feed his dogs.
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Re: Dog food $75 a bag
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07/12/23 08:31 PM
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That's interesting Keith, never thought about it from that angle. It would be some work, but hey it is man's best friend after all... I feed Purina to my short-haired and it is kinda pricey.
Anybody remember several years back when a bunch of dogs died from dogfood? And if memory serves I believe it came from china. I rember talking about shooting a couple deer and grinding them for dogwood to avoid any chance of something happening. To many deer on our place anyways. Never ended up doing it though. I also wondered about grinding up some of them Asian carp too. I think them natives in Alaska feed them sled dogs fish. Just an idea I had, I'm usually not short of ideas but most times I'm told they're not good ideas....lol.
Illinois was giving away frozen Asian Carp and may still be doing so. You had to take a large amount at one time. I thought about sending someone out to pickup a load. I sell many thousands of pounds of whole animals for reptile food. I cull and freeze the animals and sell them whole. They get cut into manageable chunks and run twice through a Hobart meat grinder, hair or feathers, bones guts and all. Dog and cat food is often made the same way for people feeding raw. If you buy 10,000 spent ISA Brown hens at 25 cents each, that average 4.68 pounds (their normal cull weight), your cost per pound is only 18.62 cents plus the cost incurred in picking up, freezing, grinding and wrapping. I've helped people set up two raw dog and cat food businesses in the last year. They charge $2.00 a pound, for the cheaper meats, up to $5.00 a pound on more exotic meats and make huge profit margins. Pet food is mostly unregulated in the US. Canada is fairly easy to sell in from the US, with some minor inspections. Keith
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