EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

What color bag does everyone think is the best?? Or is there another brand that's better for around the same money?? Just want the way for my dogs

Just want the best I ment!!

We started feeding the black bag. It's got a higher fat content and the dogs look great and are hunting great. Not alot of number 2 either so better digestibility.

Jerryg

Black bag

I feed the blue bag and have great results

Black bag

Black Bag 24/20, dogs will look good and there waste will be solid easy for clean up...

Black bag but I'm going to give the blue one a try since it's a little cheaper.

Black bag is what I've been feeding the past couple of weeks I think I'll stick with it for now. Seems terra quiet a bit of folks that are satisfied with it

blue its actually more digestible than the black both are great though

i switch back and forth from the black to the blue every other time i need a bag.. dont know y i do or if it does anything but i do it

I use the Camo bag and my dogs are looking great with solid stool.

I agree, seems like I have less clean up per blue bag of feed. when I use the blue bag I add a tablespoon of used cooking oil/bacon grease to boost up the fat content.

I just bought a blue bag of sportmix.  Its 26/18 I think.  I am just taking it out for a test drive, I usually feed the black bag 24/20. 

First thing I noticed, is the lack of price difference.  I read somewhere on here that the blue bag was cheaper.  If it was, it was only a dollar or so.  Secondly, the chunks are MUCH smaller than black bag, the dogs didn't really know what to think about it.  My pit/cur gyp flipped it out and ate if off the ground for some reason.  She never did this with the black bag...

And, lastly... This hacked me off a bit... The bag I bought said 10lbs free!  I didn't really read the bag (fine print) And when I got home, I was reading the bag and it said 50lbs at a 40lb price.  The dang bag is supposed to be 50lbs!!  I payed a 50lb bag price, I expected 50lbs PLUS 10lbs FREE dammit!!!!!Why are they trying to fool everyone, and why is a 40lb bag starting to be the norm??

Who all else is not falling for this 40lb bag bullcrap and has switched brands?  What did you switch to?

I feed black and could prolly throw the turds thru a window. I will stick with it till it goes up... Only a matter of time

Alot of brands or switching to 40lb bags. so say it is so the ladies can handle it better aleast thats what the feed store told me. i feed PMI K9 advantage but it isn't very cheap $ 30 a bag for 50#

The black bag been feeding it for about 5 mouths and my dogs have never looked better.

We sell sportsmix at our feed store and feed the blue.
And the word part about their 50 lbs for 40lb price is they don't sell a 40lb bag

Are there that many women out there who cannot lift 50lbs, don't have a husband, son or nephew that owns and hunts her own working dogs that the company decided to drop only 10lbs off the bag weight.  Sounds like a giant can of bullspit to me...


Such a blatant scam printed right there on the bag.  I'm not sure I want to support such a dishonest company.  I guess the search for my next dogfood starts today.

Such a blatant scam printed right there on the bag.  I'm not sure I want to support such a dishonest company.  I guess the search for my next dogfood starts today.
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It's still a good feed though, all of my dogs have always done great on it and my grandfather has been feeding it for more than 12 years

you're absolutely correct, it is a jam up feed.  I just have some qualms about falling for their bogus attempt to sell less food for the same money. 

I think it means you are getting 50 lbs for the same price as the competitors 40 lbs.....

the blue bag has always been 50 pounds ans sometimes they would add 5 pounds for free and this was the advertised special... other times they had 2 pounds extra...

seems when all the other dog food companies started increasing their prices Sportsmix raised theres some too. Then they got the brilliant idea to put on the bag 50 pounds of feed at a 40 pound price...what this means to me is that their price is comparable in price and dog food quality to other companies that sell 40 pound bags of dog food. For the money Sportsmix is good...I think Victor is a better feed but I think the bags are forty pounds and a little more expensive...But the digestability is higher so less poop and less feeding might come close to balancing out...And if it is not real close then less clean up might be worth the difference in the money...but no one close to me sells Victor so I can not really make the comparison..I am just going by what the ingredients say on both bags and the ratings...

I may be an exception, but I think the average American would rather see them print "Still a 50lb bag" or "50lbs of food for 24.99" instead of seemingly trying to outsmart people, or using some uppity advertising special to fool us dumb folks.  I know it fooled me for a while.

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I may be an exception, but I think the average American would rather see them print "Still a 50lb bag" or "50lbs of food for 24.99" instead of seemingly trying to outsmart people, or using some uppity advertising special to fool us dumb folks.  I know it fooled me for a while.
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yea...you are an exception cause you hunt "Lacy's"...JK :)

It got me too. I went to the store to buy 3 50 pound bags and I saw the advertisement and I thought I was getting some extra dog food so I bought five bags instead and then when loading the dog food I caught on to what it really was saying... :o ;D its been a long run with that "SPECIAL"...

haha, I really only have one lacy, and I rarely take her bc she is incredibly immature and apparently has some strange sort of doggie seperation anxiety and wont leave my side unless the other dogs bay.  But, she works her butt off in a pen and in the woods, she just won't hunt on her own yet.  And right now, I have a younger cur dog that is turning on so much faster so he gets fed more tracks because of the promise he shows.  I am looking forward to her maturing and getting out of the "puppy" stage, I think she will make one hell of a hog dog!  but, either way, she always has a spot here at the house bc of her great nature and off the charts intelligence.

btt though, I like the sportmix, they just made me feel dumb today.  I don't like feeling dumb.  It makes me angry.

I really don't think I could find the same quality for the same price, so I guess they'll win...

Black bag

My step dad feeds his dog nothing but black bag... I feed star pro in a blue bag 30/20 .

I was going to ask your stores carry a 50 lb bag? Here TSC only carries a 40 lb bag in black or blue doesn't matter.

The feed store here carries a 50 lb black bag

yeah,I try not to shop at tsc.  I buy mine at a feed store just right down the road.

I switched from victor to sportsmix (blue bag), because of victor's piss poor results. And, I don't think I have upgraded. I'm still having weight and energy issues. Had fecal test done vet said cleanest she had ever seen. My feed store only carries blue bag, so I'm goin to see if he will get the black or something. Anybody have any suggestions I'm lost I'm feeding 4 1/2 cups to 6 cups to 35 to 70 pound dogs and I have some that look like they haven't ate in a month and that isn't me! Any advice?

Make sure they are wormed. 

Might try beefing up the fat content somehow, I've heard of rice bran oil, used cooking oil, bacon grease, trimmed fat from local butcher...

Halfbreed posted an article recently on probiotics and such that helps the dogs digest the food they are getting.  Might try searching for it, or pm him maybe.

this time of year if the dog does not have a warm bed he will burn lots of calories trying to stay warm..short coated dogs will burn more than longer coated dogs...

I feed the orange bag n I like it a lot and it only cost me 18 bucks

Orange 15$

what is the fat/protien content of the orange bag?

21% protien 8% fat my dogs love it and look very well!

If you want to put weight on a dog you need to feed a high fat feed.

My dogs are all full bodied and plenty fat, haha.  There are a couple I actually need to lean up a bit, they don't get hunted as much as the others, I may try the orange bag... 

The ole pot lickers, are starting to figure out how to eat the small chunks from the blue bag.

The orange bag the dog food is what I call bite size for big dogs it's little pieces just like a snickers candy bar you can get a big one or a bite size little ones lol