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I know these dog food threads get beat to death, but the only two dog foods that people even talk about around here are sportmix and Diamond. I am feeding diamond right now, but given these two brands, which would be the better to feed.

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I feed my dogs diamond food they look good and have a lot of energy. I have never had a dog that wouldnt eat it either.

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I always fed Black gold until my last dog died three years ago. Now I have some new dogs, but can't get black gold anymore. I have no complaints on the diamond. Sport Mix is cheaper, but there may be a reson for that.

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Black gold is hard for me to get a hold of to never tried but most people says it is good feed

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My Senior Citizen Plott male gets Diamond Lamb & Rice because corn gives him ear problems. My new Plott pup (D.O.B. August 2008) has been eating Diamond Lamb & Rice also. But I've noticed that lately it's been running through him, as Diamond has with some of my other hounds, so as of today I'm gradually adding Sportmix to his food & within a week or so he'll be fed Sportmix entirely. I use the Sportmix Adult high energy and my dogs are doing well on it. I fed Purina exclusively for more than 20 years - but it has a high corn content & Purina doesn't deliver to my feed store anymore because they prefer to deliver to Wal Mart.

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we have had our dogs on diamond forthree years. LAst year we switched to black gold and the pooped about 10 times more and they didn't look as healthy unless you shoveled to food to them, especially the ones we were hunting a lot. Diamond is the best we have ever come by. We feed the naturals chicken and rice blend, and it doesn't take much and they look healthy.
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I tried SportMix and my dogs wouldn't eat it. Never tried Diamond.

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The Diamond naturals is a good food.The other diamond food would be ok to put in a feeder bucket,but i wouldn't feed it to my dogs.Way too much cleanup in the kennels.

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Diamond. I have been feeding it for 7 years with good results. I like the green bag, especially in the winter, but you can give them Diamond Maintinence (Yellow bag) in the summer months.

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started feeding the SportsMix 24/20 and my dog love it and so do I. I get it a whole lot cheaper than Purina Pro Plan in which I was feeding up until now. Dogs look good on it and with little clean up. SportMix $23 Purina Pro Plan $38 do the math. Don' t get me wrong always loved Purina but I can't keep this up. JMO!!!!!!

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I feed High standard to my beagles and my walker and like it pretty good

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I have been feeding Sportsmix in the blue bag (26-18) for years. Dogs look and hunt good. I will probably feed it as long as I have dogs.
The black bag is good to (24-20) seems to be alittle harder to find.

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Well I wanted to feed High Standard, but haven't been able to find it around here.

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if you feed black gold, or have, and liked it, then use the sportmix. if you look at the ingredients, it is almost the same feed made by different people. i like it, use it, and will continue to do so until they change it drastically, or the price gets to high for a working man to afford.

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Well I wanted to feed High Standard, but haven't been able to find it around here.

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I'm not everyone. I wouldn't feed Black Gold to the worst dog on the yard. Thats borderline animal cruelty, same with Sportmix.

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I get the black sportmix here for $179.oo for 10 bags.

The dogs eat it better than black gold, and it keeps them in shape, very little stool, and shiny and healthy.

Anyone that says sportmix or black gold isnt a quality feed hasnt got the brains God give a box of rocks.

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lol I guess everyone has their own idea of what quality is.....and what brains and rocks are. Your muscle car may get down the road on 87 octane and get you where you want to go. But unless you ever try something better, you'll never know the difference and end up proclaiming that 87 octane in a muscle car is the way to go. Nobody is honestly saying that it won't or can't work. Just that there is better. Sportmix and Black Gold are nowhere close to being top grade feed. It'll serve the purpose for a maintenance feed but there are better choices for those requiring a higher grade fuel.

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And once again, you are wrong again.

I hate to break this to you but a bag of dog food isnt going to overcome genetic shortcomings or bad training.

If a dog be hunted 4-5 nights a week, stay looking healthy and in shape well into his later years eating a high fat, high protein feed like BG or Sportmix. What more can you ask for.

They are dogs..Not spoiled children. If you want to waste your money on a designer dog food or good meat products that need to be a person's plate and not a dog's bowl, go right ahead.

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Your right I agree, but IT WILL be one of the things that YOU CAN control to maximize what gene pool/bad training you and your dog have been given. I wouldn't call it spoiling your dog either. They aren't children, they are athletes and should be treated as such. I AM interested in maximizing every aspect of my dogs that I can. To knowingly provide a diet that has room for improvement and expect that animal to perform its best week in and week out is not being as good a competitor as you can be. Your dog may be outstanding, but when you are competing with world class animals, it is often the small details that make the difference. If, as you say it, that is wrong....then I don't want to be "right."

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Well I sure didn't mean for this to turn into a pissing contest. I just was looking for suggestions on what to feed. I've fed Black Gold and it was ok, but it has been several years. I'm feeding Diamond right now cause thats all I've been able to find in my area. I'm open to suggestions on what to feed.

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what were you feeding before you started with diamond extreme
one thing i qgree with you on is where the proiein comes from is more important than the percentage is look at those posion ingredients the chinese were adding fust to up the protein, perhaps the bags should be labeled percents of digestable ingredients

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Sportsmix is better than diamond.

I just wonder what the diamond guys feed when diamond has another recall.

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I tried SportMix and my dogs wouldn't eat it. Never tried Diamond.

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