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I am currious how much a Beagle eats? Like how many cups of food would you feed say of Purina ONE or Dog Chow to a hard working Beagle or to a Beagle in the off season?

I don't have Beagles, just curious about the amount of feed to feed one if I got into it. Does a working Beagle eat more than a Beagle that is just sitting around? Heck I don't really know how much one even normaly weighs, I know that there are long legged ones and bench legged ones.

Thanks for any info on this.

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I feed my dogs about 2 cups of food once a day when their just in their kennel, much more they get overweight fast. When my dogs hunt i may feed 3 to 4 cups a day...... puppies need more food than adults. Adult beagles will eat as much as you give them if they like the food , dont let them get overweight if you cant tell where the chest meets the stomach then their overweight. Beagles weigh from 10 pounds to 30 lbs. when healthy.

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These are just based off of my hounds. I will give approx. weights for each for accuracy. Rocco is 28 lbs gets 1.5 cups off season and in heat, gets about 3 in season and in cold. Lilly is 21 lbs gets 1 cup off season and in heat(summer) and about 2 to 2.5 in season. Nova is about 13-14 lbs. Gets 3/4 to 1 in off season and around 1.5 in season. I also look at how the dog looks. If you can't feel there back 2-3 ribs they are a little too heavy. It is trial and error and quality of feed also makes a difference in my opinion. Hope this helps.

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This is my young male, Champ, he is just right at weight for right now in my opinion. He is getting run about 3-4 times a week and is getting 2.25 cups of Purina Pro Plan as he has shown to have a very sensitive stomach on other foods, not all are like him in that area.

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I feed 2 cups of yellow bag Black gold during the spring and summer then go to the Black bag in the winter but they still get 2 cups

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That is a nice looking dog, long legged fellow, I had a beagle a long time ago, but it was much like the ones you listed above the pic , smaller.

I bought the dog when she was around 8 yr old or more, and the man said she was benched legged? I guess that means shorter in size? I never fed her bagged dog food, only table scarpes, she sort of stayed in the house, that is the way the fellow I got her from kept her....so did I. She would run a rabbit around me in a circle not futher than 50yds away, I would empty the gun 2 maybe 3 times before killing the varmit, but that little dog would keep bring it by till I got it. She died after about 1 1/2yrs and never got another one.

20 yrs later.... I got some boys now, and a pile of blueticks, but the boys want a inside dog, and well 80lb blue dog is not going to cut it. I am just across the hump to your east, you got anything that fits the discription?

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I don't right now, but a very good friend of mine has a little male from a litter he has. His sire is 12 and 3/4 inches and throws a lot of small dogs, 13 or under. You could call him Tim Ogrady 740-391-9806.

Thank you for the compliments on Champ!

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