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Cocker Specific Discussion => Feeding => Topic started by: Paula on November 20, 2010, 06:45:38 PM
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Hi!
Alfie my black working cocker will be 6 months old tommorrow bless him, where has the time gone?
Can anyone help as i am not sure when i should move Alfie from puppy to junior food please?
Thank You!
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hi Paula
Which brand of food does he have?
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Hi!
He has James Wellbeloved.
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If you ask me Junior food is a bit of a gimmick on the part of the food manufacturers ph34r This question comes up quite regularly and most people seem to change straight onto adult food at about 6 months ;)
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I think i changed Hattie to the junior food at around 6 months and then on the adult at around 12.
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Caoimhe is 7 months and is on JWB junior, I put her on that about a month ago. I will likely start transferring her onto adult at around 9-10 months. Depends on how she is getting on, she is thriving well on the junior and barf.
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If you ask me Junior food is a bit of a gimmick on the part of the food manufacturers ph34r This question comes up quite regularly and most people seem to change straight onto adult food at about 6 months ;)
Mine go from puppy to adult JWB at 6 months ...I agree with Joules :blink:
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If you ask me Junior food is a bit of a gimmick on the part of the food manufacturers ph34r This question comes up quite regularly and most people seem to change straight onto adult food at about 6 months ;)
Mine go from puppy to adult JWB at 6 months ...I agree with Joules :blink:
Me too, a lot of good food brands don't have a specific 'junior' version, I also always put mine straight onto adult food at 5.5-6 months.
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I changed Smudge from Burns smallbite to Burns Adult from about a year, this was mainly tho cos he had a dicky tummy and the smallbite suited him, being a bit of a scaredy cat regarding food changes, I kept him on smallbite longer than necessary.
Katie changed from Puppy/Junior Naturediet to the adult at about 7-8 months (I think - seems so long ago now :o )
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Straight to adult at 6 months for my two aswell
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I've been told to put on adult at 12 months - whats with the 6 months, surely they're a puppy still :-\
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Royal Canin's Junior is suitable from 2 months old, and Arden Grange have a Weaning/Puppy product, and then a Puppy/Junior product which is suitable from 8 weeks onwards. Alfie's been on the latter for the last couple of months, and I am now slowly changing him over to the Adult range, as he is near the top end of his "desirable" weight. He's on half and half at the moment (at 7 months old) and I will change him over fully to the Adult range in the next couple of weeks.
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Scarlett is on natural dog food puppy and is 10 months...
With 25% protein and 11.5% fat I think is allright for her.
We change to adult at 12 months.
If she had a brand like royal as she had some months ago before we change to NDF I would also move to adult earlier...
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I waited until 12months before putting Alfie onto adult food. When I went to exchange a bag of puppy food I had left over for an adult one I was told I could, but that he would still be fine on the puppy food as there was more goodness in it than the adult food.
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I waited until 12months before putting Alfie onto adult food. When I went to exchange a bag of puppy food I had left over for an adult one I was told I could, but that he would still be fine on the puppy food as there was more goodness in it than the adult food.
As far as I understand it, there is more protein in puppy and junior food to help with their growth so it would probably make your dog fat if you continued to feed when grown ;)
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Personal opinion here ;)
Dog food is all about profit for the maufactuer
Years ago dogs were just fed scraps these days all the dog food manufactuers want you to buy puppy food which is an arm and a leg and some have Junior food to make you buy a more expensive food than the adult food before you move on to adult food
I have fed puppy food (don't get me wrong) but I have avoided the junior food
as for age of changing from puppy to adult food - manufatuers want you to stay on the puppy food for a year or more as it is more profit for them but all mine get changed to adult food around 6 months of age.
I would do what you want to do and only YOU can make the decision when to change from puppy food to either junior or adult
good luck with your decision
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I waited until 12months before putting Alfie onto adult food. When I went to exchange a bag of puppy food I had left over for an adult one I was told I could, but that he would still be fine on the puppy food as there was more goodness in it than the adult food.
As far as I understand it, there is more protein in puppy and junior food to help with their growth so it would probably make your dog fat if you continued to feed when grown ;)
I agree, I think the implication was that it would be OK to continue with the extra bag I had left, it wouldn't do him any harm shorterm, but obviously best to switch to adult food then (which I have done now!)
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I've been told to put on adult at 12 months - whats with the 6 months, surely they're a puppy still :-\
Must admit Jeanette.... Lace will be on Pro Plan puppy until she is 12 months but the others were on JWB and I did change them over at 7 months to adult.
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They've done most of their growing by that stage which is why I change mine, once they've almost reached their adult size (height wise) and their rate of growth has slowed down I'd rather have them on adult food so they can fill out and build up muscle at a steadier rate.
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My pups are raised on RC Starter, then around 7 weeks go onto Junior which they stay on until 12 months of age, if they start putting too much weight on around 10 months (ish) then I tell them to get them onto the adult food.
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I weighed up the pros and cons (after consulting COL) and decided to change Odie over to adult food at around 6 months. This was mainly because his system (ie his poos :P) were never nice and solid on the 2 kinds of puppy food I tried. Problem solved when I moved to his adult food, he enjoys it, has great motions :shades: and weight and height wise is fine. It is down to your own personal choice though! Lesley