What is puffed food, what is baked food, and which one to choose for dogs? I will explain it to you one by one today.
First, choose according to the dog's age.
1, milk cake: Milk cake is nutritious and generally suitable for dogs under three months old.
2, puppy food:/kloc-dogs under 0/2 months are called puppies.
3. Adult dog food:/kloc-Dogs over 0/2 months old are called adult dogs.
4. Dog food for the elderly: six-year-old small dogs enter the aging stage, and eight-year-old large dogs enter the aging stage.
5. Universal dog food: suitable for dogs of all breeds and ages.
Second, choose according to the dog's physique.
Every dog is a different individual, so you should choose your food because of the dog!
1, sensitive, bad for the stomach: choose dog food with single meat source, no grain and low crude fiber content.
2, emaciated: choose dog food with high nutritional value and high meat content; Obesity: Choose dog food with low fat content.
3. Dry hair: Choose dog food containing beautiful hair ingredients such as fish and fish oil.
4. Soft stool: Choose dog food that is well absorbed and easy to digest.
5. Tears: Choose a dog food with low oil content and a duck formula that can clear fire. It is best not to eat beef, it is easy to get angry.
Third, most dog food will bring full-time and full-price food, and some shovel officials may not understand this very well.
1, all stages: it means that people of all ages can eat it.
2. Full-price grain refers to grain with balanced and comprehensive nutrition that meets the needs of feeding standard.
Fourth, the processing technology of dog food
Dog food is divided into puffed food, baked food, air-dried food, fresh food and freeze-dried food. Features can be seen from the figure below.
5. How to choose good dog food?
Usually, the dog food packaging bag has detailed formula table, nutrient composition table, feeding advice and other related information. If you understand the contents of the packaging bag, it is so easy to choose dog food!
1, see table of nutrients.
Crude protein: adult dogs ≥ 18% puppies ≥22%
Crude fat: adult dogs ≥5%, puppies ≥8%.
Crude ash: ≤ 10%, the less the better.
The ratio of calcium to phosphorus is about 1: 1 ~ 2: 1, and the best ratio is 1.2: 1.
Water-soluble chloride: ≥0.09% for adult dogs and ≥0.45% for puppies.
Crude fiber: adult dogs and puppies ≤9%
2. Look at the ingredients of the formula
The main raw material is meat, and the source is transparent, the meat content is high, and it does not contain additives such as grains and preservatives, so it is the healthiest.
Look at the meat content: the proportion of meat is high, and pure animal meat is the most ideal raw material. Meat is generally required to be in the top three in the ingredient list.
Meat source: give priority to fresh meat, fresh meat > frozen meat > digestion tank storage.
Whether it contains grain or not: it is best not to contain grain, which is easy to cause allergies in dogs.
Additives: odorant, pet compound seasoning, these are food attractants, so don't choose them.
Protein: Animal protein is better than plant protein.
Tips: the contents of the formula table on the dog food packaging bag are sorted from high to low!
3. the taste of dog food
It smells like light meat, so you can't buy pungent meat. If it is salty, don't buy it again. Long-term consumption may induce physical problems in dogs.
4. Lightning protection has the following characteristics.
There is no meat in the raw materials, they are all food crops or grains.
(2) Do not choose to add harmful additives such as BHA and BHT.
③ The crude protein content is ultra-low or even lower than 30%, and the crude fat content is ultra-low or even lower than 10%.
④ There is no formal third-party testing report.
Dog food is colorful and looks unhealthy.