Can anyone help with a dog with a possible food allergy?

[Weeg]

Our Akita girl, Emi, we'd give her scrambled eggs as an often treat.
We found out that she was getting hot spots, so we stopped feeding her egg and it got a little better.

We do feed him raw chicken eggs, and there are eggs in his food, so we plan on stopping feeding him that and see if we get a difference as well.

 

[GonzoTheGreat]

You got plenty to go through here, but we used to have a dog who had some allergy related symptoms and it was largely solved by just switching from a chicken-based food to I think beef. The fish-based food we tried worked well too, but made her very gassy.

If one of my current dogs had those symptoms, and we currently feed them a poultry based food, I think just switching to lamb or beef would be step #1.

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

We do feed him raw chicken eggs, and there are eggs in his food, so we plan on stopping feeding him that and see if we get a difference as well.

Yes, that would be best to try it and see what happens

 

[Weeg]

C

You got plenty to go through here, but we used to have a dog who had some allergy related symptoms and it was largely solved by just switching from a chicken-based food to I think beef. The fish-based food we tried worked well too, but made her very gassy.

If one of my current dogs had those symptoms, and we currently feed them a poultry based food, I think just switching to lamb or beef would be step #1.

Cool, we have access to wild caught salmon too, since we fish and hunt, so I am thinking of using some of our salmon along with organ meat, and liver from the deer we hunt. If we don't have access to that, then maybe turkey since its easy to digest, but I think something further from chicken would be better.

 

[Weeg]

@Texas Transplant my other question, you said avoid grains, so should I not od the brown rice? I was wondering this myself. If I don't do brown rice, is it okay just to feed the carrots, broccoli and maybe kale along with the meat, and extra vitamins, or should I add another filler?

 

[Texas Transplant]

@Texas Transplant my other question, you said avoid grains, so should I not od the brown rice? I was wondering this myself. If I don't do brown rice, is it okay just to feed the carrots, broccoli and maybe kale along with the meat, and extra vitamins, or should I add another filler?

I would definitely look into fully vetted recipes by vets or nutritionists.....some even sell additives to balance out missing nutrients. Dogs are often allergic to grains (rice etc). I don't think dogs need fillers. I have a 78 pound GSD that only eats 3 cups of food a day of kibble from Zignature.......she used to be on a BARF diet, only ate 2 cups of food a day (because there were no fillers.)

 

[Weeg]

I would definitely look into fully vetted recipes by vets or nutritionists.....some even sell additives to balance out missing nutrients. Dogs are often allergic to grains (rice etc). I don't think dogs need fillers. I have a 78 pound GSD that only eats 3 cups of food a day of kibble from Zignature.......she used to be on a BARF diet, only ate 2 cups of food a day (because there were no fillers.)

Cool, so just he meat, veggies, fish oil, and vitamins should be fine then!

 

[Weeg]

@TwoCrows Is this the soil you use? https://www.amazon.com/NuLife-Natur...56983&sprefix=alaskan+salmon+,aps,367&sr=8-19

 

[TwoCrows]

@TwoCrows Is this the soil you use? https://www.amazon.com/NuLife-Natur...56983&sprefix=alaskan+salmon+,aps,367&sr=8-19

No but I am sure its fine! I used many bottles of this... https://www.chewy.com/american-journey-wild-alaskan-salmon/dp/137143

 

[TwoCrows]

And if you go with the oil from chewy, store it in the frig.