For dog owners, one of the most important issues is feeding the animal. Everyone knows that the dog is essentially a carnivorous animal. Therefore, in the menu of each dog should be a sufficient amount of meat . If you have not yet chosen the type of food for your pet, pay attention to the dry food for the dog. This line of feed, which includes only fresh ingredients, is made in Canada by the manufacturer Champion Petfoods. Cheap frozen ingredients or preservatives are not used by the manufacturers of Forages.
For adult dogs ORIJEN ADULT food is produced, elderly dogs like ORIJEN SENIOR food. For dogs of small breeds and puppies there is a forage Orien pappi.
Ingredients forage for dogs
The concept of this new food is the biological correspondence of the natural food of dogs. Therefore, the producers of Orijen feed for adult dogs and puppies have included the maximum number of meat ingredients, a small amount of vegetables and fruits, but there are no cereals in this diet at all, since they are not included in the natural diet of dogs.
ORIJEN dog food consists of 80% of the protein components: animal meat, poultry, eggs and fish. In addition, in the feed contains animal fats, which are necessary for the health of the dog. Since pets do not lead a very active life in comparison with their wild relatives, for them in the diet of the Ojigen animal fats contain a moderate amount.
- Poultry, the meat of which is used in the feed of Orien, is grown only on a free-range. At the same time, antibiotics or stimulants are not used for bird growth. Dietary meat of Canadian chickens and turkeys is useful for both puppies and adult dogs. And fresh chicken eggs are a source of high quality protein.
- Fresh fish is an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, which are indispensable for the nervous and immune system of the dog, its fur and skin. The composition of Orgzhen food can include river fish caught in Canadian lakes: pike, pike perch, lake whitefish. In addition, the food Orijen consists of Pacific fish: herring, salmon, flounder.
- As additional ingredients in ORIJEN for dogs can include duck meat, quail, lamb, wild boar, deer, rainbow trout.
- In the feed, Orien contains about 10-15% of the selected meat from the internal organs of animals. The heart, liver, scar are rich in vitamins, minerals, folic acid. In addition, the meat components also include edible parts of the animal skeleton: cartilage and bone marrow, which are sources of phosphorus, calcium, chondroitin and glucosamine.
- In the ORIJEN diet, the carbohydrate content is halved compared to other dog food. After all, it is known that the more protein is present in the food, the less carbohydrates it should contain, since the dogs in the dog's organism become glucose, while increasing the level of sugar in the blood.
And sugar, in turn, easily turns into fat, which leads to obesity of the animal and other serious illnesses. - Cereals, which are not characteristic for the feeding of dogs, are excluded in Orgyzhen's diet. Instead, the composition of the feed includes a variety of low-glycemic vegetables and fruits. It can be apples and pears, nutmeg and carrots, cranberries, blueberries and spinach leaves. In addition, the feed contains various useful herbs and plants that dogs like to eat in nature. Calendula, dandelion, ginger, chicory, mint, thyme, seaweed serve to strengthen immunity, they tone up, purify the liver and activate the metabolism in the dog's body.
