VICTOR DOG FOOD

[mustangman]

HEY GUYS,KINDA NEW TO THE FORUM BUT BEEN READING IT FOR A WHILE. WANT TO GET YOUR OPINION ON VICTOR DOG FOOD. I HAVE FED A BRAND OF DOG FOOD CALLED REX FROM SPECIALTY FEEDS IN TENNESSE. FED IT FOR YEARS & WAS GREAT UP UNTIL BOUT 4 MONTHS AGO. THEY MUST HAVE CHANGED THE RECIPE. STARTED FEEDIN VICTOR 24/20 SINCE. HERE LATELY MY DOGS HAVE BEEN KINDA SHEDIN SOME HAIR & THEIR COATS AINT AS SHINY AS IM USED TO. WORM EM ONCE A MONTH WITH PANACUR HORSE WORMER & EVERY OTHER MONTH WITH IVOMEC. I TRY TO HUNT 2-3 NIGHTS A WEEK FROM TRUCK & AT LEAST 1 DAY A WEEKEND FROM HORSEBACK. NOTICED A LITTLE DROP IN STAMINA BUT NOT MUCH. IS IT THE WEATHER OR HAS ANYONE ELSE RUN ACROSS THIS? BEEN FEEDIN THEM A LIL BET MORE THAN I USED TOO WITH REX. 

[lonewolf]

All mine seem to be doing good on victor 24/20!

[UNDERDOG]

I have been useing it for a coupple months 3 bags a week and am very happy w/ it and I seem to use less and the dogs have done well on it.

[Mike]

I'm very pleased with the 24/20 so far. All the dogs look good and have great stamina... also i'm real impressed on how fast they rebound after a long, hard hunt.

[stick-n-move]

been workin great for me. do not have to feed as much. dogs look good

[grittydog]

Im on my second bag of victor and my dogs have gained weight and their energy level is higher. JT

[mustangman]

Thanks for the info guys. I appreciate it.

[aladatrot]

I will say that if your dogs aren't doing well on it, then it may just be that it doesn't agree with your dogs. I had been feeding Diamond High Energy. Not the best dog food around by any stretch of the imagination, but it is without the three "bad nasties" which are known carcinogens - BHT, BHA, and Ethoxyquin. My dogs looked fine and hunted well on Diamond HE, but inconsistencies from batch to batch left me scooping stool that ranged from soft to liquid depending on the bag.

We transitioned to sportsmix. Stools were firm and consistent, but I was feeding exactly double what I fed in diamond and my dogs were still losing weight. Now, to be fair, the dogs did have tapeworms from a nasty bout of fleas last summer. That said, the dogs were able to maintain condition on the diamond even given the tapeworms. Got the tape worms handled and the dogs were still not gaining condition so we switched after a couple months to Victor.

Now that we are on victor, the dogs condition has come back to the same as what we had on diamond. We have no treated again for tapes, but coats are better and the skinny ones have picked up. I still feed roughly double the amount of victor than I fed diamond, but stools are firm and consistent. I will manage with the necessity of feeding double for the sake of my dogs having consistency from bag to bag.

All that said, I don't think Sportsmix is a bad feed. I think that dogs are individuals with differing metabolisms. For whatever reason, my dogs did well on Diamond when a good deal of folks reported their packs not thriving on it. Many people have good luck with Sportsmix, but my dogs did not. I am pleased with Victor so far, and have not had any issues with performance or stamina. As a matter of fact, my greyhound is bouncing off the walls and my old Lizzie dog has more energy than she has had in a long time. Just this past weekend, Lizzie surprised me by going out twice better than a mile - and that is just not like the old dog. Not sure if it is the dogfood or something else.

Cheers
M

[aladatrot]

By the way, what is the "MEAT" source in Victor? Just wondering if that varied from bag to bag. Most dog foods contain chicken, lamb, beef, fish meal, or any byproduct thereof. Victor claims to have Meat. In my mind, Meat can mean anything. Does anyone know what exactly the meat source is?

Cheers
M

[mustangman]

Thanks for the reply. your right on the different metabolism on each dog. Thought my dogs have just kinda shucked my wormer & might need to change to a different program. My huntin buddy just loves the victor & says his dogs hasnt look  this good in years. Havnt noticed any change in my bulldogs but have in my baydogs .mostly hunt farm land but right now here in north central texas its super wet. Just a lil concerned cause everyone seems to love this dogfood. Kinda bothers me that the sacks are only 40 pnds instead of 50.

[B4hogdogs]

I feed the Diamond high energy 2. and i like it alot but stool is different every time. thinking of going with BLACK GOLD heard its the best..

[Bump]

Hello...My name is Rex and I feed Victor. 

but it has done my dogs good!