CSnowgren
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Originally posted by joseph mcdonald
C snowgren, thats all I was getting at was corn isnt the blame for everyones feed problems, like so many think.
Junk feed is almost always in the eye of the beholder. Some of these lower class feeds, if supplemented properly you can get some results from, others the hounds just cant seem to get anything from them?
Another argument in the making, but I feed a high fat diet year round. Dogs use fat to keep themselves hydrated, dogs are fat burning sons of guns.Fat is their energy and reserve energy. If a guy pays attention to what kind and how much of a high fat diet in his dogs, you would never feed anything less than 20% fat. Yes even to old dogs, yes even to laid up dogs.
TRAXX ADDICT, Just so you know, I have seen dogs eat field corn and have had several, eat sweet corn, thrown down in the garden. Does that mean I'm gonna switch them to an all corn diet? NO.
As far as my cracker jack education, Anyone can get on the computer and google a few things, and talk smart, or you can go to college and study nutrition and animal science, or you can do what I did and thats spend alot of time and money the past 35 years feeding, Hunting, conditioning, running competiton trials and hunts, studying and conversing with houndsman that are the leaders in their field, of how to condition and feed hounds.
Most coonhunters and coonhounds, will never work hard enough to fully understand the pro's or con's of the feed they are feeding.
For sure. I wasn't directing my post to anyone in particular, just throwing it out there for those who have the ability to read between the lines and are generally concerned with seeking answers to thier problems. I must disagree though with your comment about junk feed being in the eye of the beholder. Just because one believes a feed to be good, it doesn't change what the feed is. The only thing that changes, or is lacking, is the knowledge of what good feed is by the eye of the beholder. lol Guys get cranked because they find out what they feed is equivelant to chicken feed and all of a sudden they refuse to listen or learn because they hate realizing that they have been a dumbazz for so long. They come up with all kinds of excuses as to why they feed what they do, the best one is that "it works for me and my dogs". Like I said, perception doesn't change what the feed is. Junk is junk. Another great excuse is, "as long as I am buying, I'll feed what I feel like feeding. If you ain't buying, don't worry about it." And again, as great of an excuse as that is........junk is junk. If mediocre dogs fed junk is one's idea of standards, so be it. Anyway, supplementing is almost always a good idea. One has to figure out for thier own pocketbook ....is feeding junk to save a few bucks work out if I have to turn around and supplement anyway? I could never come to that conclusion and just decided to buy better feed. Now when I supplement, it serves the purpose of what a supplement is for. Supplementing should not be used to bridge junk to average, but to bridge good feed and elevated performance. All too often junk feed has too many side effects to be able to supplement them out.
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