Maintaining weight during the season

[Dawnrazor]

I also feed twice a day during the Shooting season, once early morning and again in the evening, I find this helps, it's easier to up the amount too, 1/2 in the morning and maybe 2/3 in the evening, better than one extra big meal once a day I feel.

[NickG]

Great advice Judy. Many thanks.

[Naj]

I'd go with DRs 2 meal suggestion. Natasha on here works her dogs more than most and has posted some good info on diet and is currently involved with a monitoring project.

Naj

[Alice]

Agree with everyone so far, but be careful and use your common sense when adding fatty meat (tripe is also great) as too much fat can trigger pancreatitis.

[EssGrouse]

My springer gets 170g of salmon and potato and half a lb of tripe once a day, you cant beat tripe for the winter months to hold weight. Not an ounce of fat on her, follow link below to see as i cant upload the picture.


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[NickG]

Have switched to Skinhers superior and happy to report that they love it. Thanks for all your comments and suggestions.

[High On]

Prior to trial season I condition my dogs to run multiple series in one day. Hoping to get to the third series I want them to have the endurance to finish the day and event. I have found my dogs run better and have better endurance at a certain weight. During the course of conditioning I must take a few pounds off of them due to being overweight during the off season. Also found after a certain amount of conditioning along with weight loss their metabolism changes. At that point weight starts to drop rapidly. At this point I weigh them most every day. Also they get increased amounts of food to maintain and control their weight. Much like a boxer getting ready for a fight.

[DdraigMon]

The only thing that kept weight on my bitch in the shooting season was butchers tripe, and our Sunday dinner food scraps helped