Puppy to adult food.

Boba is 7 months and is on Butchers puppy food with Pedigree vital puppy dry mix, at what age should he go on to an adult dry food diet?

He could go onto adult food now

Have a look at some of these on our recommended list

https://staffy-bull-terrier.niceboard.com/t20620-dry-food-recommendations

A lot of people don't even bother with puppy food if you feed a good quality food (sorry to say but I wouldn't include Butchers or Pedigree in that).

I got a good deal on some Applaws puppy food so I fed that to Elmo until he was about 6 months then he went onto the adult Applaws.

A good website to check out dog food is www.whichdogfood.co.uk

I recently moved Logan onto adult food. I wanted to keep him on it as long as possible, although I know it isn't really necessary.

I really recommened James Wellbeloved. Great price, always on good deals at Pets At Home. Hypoallergenic. Grain Free (certain flavours). And Logan has absolutely thrived on it

I moved Zeus onto adult food just before he hit a year old and I agree with the comment before mine, Butchers & Pedigree are bad foods, would recommend moving onto something better, like James Wellbeloved as Mat suggested.

Definitely get him off the butchers & pedigree!

As long as the food is good quality (Wainwrights from PAH is a good, medium priced one) then he could be switched now, but obviously it should be done gradually over about a week/10 days.

Hi, as people have recommened with regards to swapping his food i would agree. I have recently just swapped from a food that we would not recommend to wainwrights.

Since doing this tyke has improved over all. I recommend feeding dry food, and tyke loves his breakfast and tea.

wainwrights i feel it value for money, im just getting to the bottom of my big bag and this has lasted over 6 weeks. if you look through the link above and do some reasearch you will find one that suits

Hi guys
can you help me we are currently finishing bens bag arden grange puppy/junior food (and his wet food-pedigree puppy)and as he is one on the 1st of april we are thinking of possibly changing his food to adult food is this right?
We have him on arden grange as he had a bad start in life (before we got him)his tummy is quiet sensitive with very bad worms and 2 types of mange-he has gone from strength to strength on ag
Are staffys classed as meduim sized breed? i really stuck to know what do for the best
so any advice would be greatly recieved,sorry but i am new to all this
thanks
di

Hi Di,

Yes, now would be the perfect time to switch him from puppy to adult food, I switched Zeus when he was just coming up to one aswell.

I would class staffies as a medium class breed and so do most people on this forum, I have always purchased him medium breed food and followed medium breed guidelines.

If he has a sensitive tum, go for something like Wainwrights or James Wellbeloved (Hypoallergenic foods) and make sure you transfer to the new food over a period of 7 to 10 days, gradually switching from one to the other.

This is a good food eden multi meat and fish formula not a bad price and good ingredients.
Ingredients

Fresh Chicken 19%, Dried Chicken 17%, Fresh Salmon 16%, Herring Meal 14%, Potato 10%, Sweet Potato 5%, Chicken Fat 5%, Dried Duck 4%, Dried Whole Egg 3%, Chicken Gravy 2%, Fresh White Fish 2%, Lucerne, Pea Fibre, Mineral & Vitamins, Carrot, Spinach, Apple, Joint Support Pack (Glucosamine (355mg/kg), MSM (355mg/kg) & Chondroitin (250mg/kg)), Rosehips, Camomile, Burdock Root, Aniseed & Fenugreek, Mixed Herbs (Thyme, Marjoram, Oregano and Sage), Seaweed, Cranberry and Prebiotic FOS.

thanks billybunter and goldie87 for your advise was thinking of either keeping him on arden grange or james wellbeloved,but the main thing was what he woud be classed as
what wet foods are best does anyone know?i have heard such conflicting things as i said we have had ben on pedigree puppy and he has been fine and had no adverse affects but it does seem he prefers to have the meat with his dry food otherwise he doesnt touch food

I really don't like wet food at all - it's 80% water!

Have you tried adding some sardines in oil to his dry food? Or maybe a raw egg over the top?

ooooh raw egg????
last time he had anything like sardines he had bad tum

Any new food can give them bum gravy. One sardine with a little oil with each meal should get him used to them, though.

so is the raw egg ok for them?
thanks by the way

Yep, raw egg is ok, mash it up with the shell and pour over his food.

I also put a bit of tuna on top of his food 2 times a week, also cooked chicken, salmon oil, olive oil, scrambled egg.

Just things to keep him guessing what he's going to get next and which are also very good for his coat/skin.

Yep, I agree with Goldie. Sardines in olive oil work great too for Logan

We have just switched Caley to adult food, she is 1 on 2 April. She was on science plan puppy food and is now on the adult science plan. We tried Caley on sardines but she turned her nose up, loves Tuna though and mincemeat

goldie87 wrote:Yep, raw egg is ok, mash it up with the shell and pour over his food.

I also put a bit of tuna on top of his food 2 times a week, also cooked chicken, salmon oil, olive oil, scrambled egg.

Just things to keep him guessing what he's going to get next and which are also very good for his coat/skin.

ok thanks very much