Is lamb & rice better than chicken & rice?

    • Silver

    Is lamb & rice better than chicken & rice?

    Someone told me it's more beneficial if you give Lamb & rice rather than Chicken because Lamb is graze fed whereas Chicken's are fed by products,hormones, and kept in unsanitary enclosed environments..... Is that true?
    • Gold Top Dog
    Most American lamb is confinement finished also (complete with hormones, grain feeding, and antibiotics).  Check to see whether it says all-natural, hormone free, or New Zealand. 

    American chicken does not contain hormones.  It's illegal.  Antibiotics, however, are present, as are high levels of salmonella and high acidity associated with grain feeding.

    Judge by the individual brand and MOST importantly what's better for your dog.  Chicken is often more easily digested but lamb has higher levels of lineolic acids and natural GAGs.  Lamb is also often better accepted by dogs with food sensitivities.
    • Puppy
    I personally feed my dog's a chicken diet and have had no problems with that.

    Lamb and Rice was originally made for dog's with food allergies to Chicken products.

    So if your dog is on a Lamb and Rice food and does develop allergies you are going to have to transfer over to other alternatives such as kangaroo or hypoallergenic and such foods.

    Really the choice in type of food is yours and what your most comfortable, as well as I am sure it varies by company as well.
    • Gold Top Dog
    to transfer over to other alternatives such as kangaroo or hypoallergenic

     
    To that end, I keep in my mind Solid Gold Wolf King because  it uses bison, which is novel source of meat to anyone, except the family of Ted Nugent.
     
    • Silver
    The live version of "Great White Buffalo" is one of his better efforts!
    • Gold Top Dog
    Ben has been allergic to bison from day one, and venison also.  Just to point out that sometimes severe allergies need no more than one exposure to be triggered.  I am the same way with eucalytus, and many people have this severe a problem with nuts and/or shellfish.
    • Gold Top Dog
    I'm allergic to work. I end up sweating and tired.
     
    • Silver
    ORIGINAL: Sasha0999

     to transfer over to other alternatives such as kangaroo
     
    they make kangaroo meat??????