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I’m looking for peoples thoughts ideas and knowledge regarding lightweight high nutrient dog food for extended hikes.
I have done some research regarding Honest Kitchen.
There is a new food out there called Turbopup. http://www.turbopup.com/products.html
But I’m unsure about it since there isn’t even meat in the bar.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Erin and StarI just checked out Turbopup. I’d never heard of it before. It claims that it’s interchangeable with regular dog food but I don’t see, based on the ingredients, how it could be complete and balanced. It wouldn’t be a bad thing to use short term for a hike or something just to provide a dog with an energy-dense snack or meal replacement, but I wouldn’t recommend it for long term feeding.
I was interested in freeze dried but they take up a lot of space especially compared to dehydrated.
Yeah the Turbopup is worrisome to me but I don’t know enough about how a dogs body processes food to know for sure if they can make use of the ingredients in the bars.Well it they contain whey protein which is a very high quality complete protein. Whey protein actually contains a higher biologic value (a measure of a protein’s effect on nitrogen balance – the higher the better) and protein digestibility corrected amino acid score (a measure of how well a particular protein supplies the nine essential amino acids) than meat or eggs. The ingredients honestly don’t look that bad. If it’s something you just want to feed for a weekend of backpacking it would be fine, it’s just I wouldn’t recommend feeding it as a meal for a long period of time.
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