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When or what time do you feed your dogs morning or evening ? And do you feed them after you hunt them? thanks for the input .

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Feed them in the evening.. If I’m gonna hut then I feed when I get back in.

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Morning and evening. After saving one of my coon hounds from Gastric Torsion (emergency surgery on a Sunday afternoon!) back in 1986 I’ve fed twice a day ever since.

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I'M NOT TRYING TO WRONG ANYONE I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT OTHERS DO THANKS FOR THE RESPONSES

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At night after I hunt. Have also fed free choice.

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Morning and evening- and on nights I hunt I put off the evening feeding until we get back that night.

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Originally posted by DL NH
Morning and evening. After saving one of my coon hounds from Gastric Torsion (emergency surgery on a Sunday afternoon!) back in 1986 I’ve fed twice a day ever since.

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Only had it happen to me once. That was enough! I know of several instances of it in coon hounds over the years.

It’s extremely painful for the dog and the wallet of the one who pays for the vet procedure!

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I usually feed in the afternoon or evening when I get home. If I’m going to hunt I give them a little feed a couple hours before. When I get home after the hunt I feed them again. I figure I don’t like hunting when I’m hungry and doubt my hounds like it too.

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I have had from two to six dogs on feeders for over 30 years. My jobs and schedules have never allowed to to tend to dogs the same time everyday. That is why feeders work for me. I have their water in 5 gallon buckets along with a constant supply in a pic pipe system with the lick-it nozzles attached. If I have a litter pups. They are put on the feeders when they are weaned. Only problem is if you get a new dog that wasn't one a feeder. You have to watch them at first. Generally if I ever get a new dog. It is a pup and adjust right away.
There are cons to the feeders. My main one is with this dog food. Several of the ingredients such as protein and other things are sprayed on it as it goes down a conveyor belt. Large amounts of feed placed in a feeder starts to oxidize as soon as it is exposed to air. You loose some of the feed quality if you put a 50 pound feeder full for one dog. I use the smaller feeders, keep about a weeks worth of food in them. I just want the food there is case I can't make it out the dog pens on a schedule. Works great for me. Generally Sunday afternoon, I clean out all the water buckets and bleach them out. Bleach the pens and check all the feeders. While I am doing this the dogs are running in a 4 acre exercise pen.

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Bruce, Exactly what I do. Easy for the neighbor to look after them when I am gone.

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Originally posted by DL NH
Morning and evening. After saving one of my coon hounds from Gastric Torsion (emergency surgery on a Sunday afternoon!) back in 1986 I’ve fed twice a day ever since.

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I know longer have coon hounds but still go some with my best friend of 37 years.

He lost a good one to GT in 2004. She was the loudest and hardest treeing female I’ve ever seen. Born natural on both track and tree. It was a crying shame she died so young @ just 3 yrs old.

We both have beagles we run on hare. I’ve never heard of a beagle or any other smaller dogs being afflicted with GT.
I also feed an upper end brand of dog food that expands very little if soaked in water.

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