Feeding table for dogs

Dog food made out of FSG (Fleischsaftgarung) provides your best friend with a healthy and balanced diet. As basis for a healthy dog’s life, we put special emphasis on high-quality ingredients that cover the dog’s daily needs. FSG is a special method of preparing fresh meat, where it‘s gently cooked in its own juice without adding water. 73% fresh meat is used for the dry dog food and 84% fresh meat for the production of wet dog food. Thanks to the FSG, all valuable nutrients are retained. And there are many other advantages:

• Highly digestible
• Less carbohydrates
• Very attractive for dogs
• Chewy-soft due to the meat juice
• Does not swell in the dog’s stomach
• A treat for your dog

The feeding amount depends on many aspects. Not only age and size of the dog, but also the kind of food are important. If you are feeding dry food to your dog you will need a smaller amount as with wet food. This is because of the processing.

Most of the moisture of dry food is removed while processing. With this, it shrinks in volume, but the nutritional value remains unchanged. In our feeding tables you can see that with PLATINUM dry food you will need about half of the amount compared to our wet food. This cannot be determined down to the last gram, since in addition to age, size and type of feeding, activity level, castration or individual predispositions can also matter. Feeding tables are therefore a good guide - but the right amount of food can vary from dog to dog.

The nutritional needs of the puppies increase rapidly and so after few weeks you should start to add some extra food to their diet. At the age of 3-4 weeks, depending on the breed and the number of puppies, you should start feeding a supplementary solid food. You start with one meal a day and this increases over time to four meals.

Our MENU Puppy Chicken wet food is very well suited to start feeding puppies after the suckling period. Mashing a small portion of the MENU Puppy Chicken wet food with some lukewarm water and then offering the puppies the resulting puree as a „first meal“ has proven successful. In the following days, you can gradually add more crumbled/blended puppy dry food to let the puree meal to set. Our Puppy dry food is very easy to crumble/blend thanks to a residual moisture content of 19% and the puppies are quite keen on the resulting small pieces. You can feed your dog PLATINUM dry and wet dog food for puppies separately or in combination.

Our Puppy Chicken puppy feed is premium quality. Please observe the following points when feeding it:

• Portion out the feed dry or moistened with a little (ideally lukewarm) water.
• Do not let it soak; feed it immediately.
• Always have fresh water available.
• Only feed more if needed.
• Never overfeed puppies and young dogs.

The timing of the switch from puppy food to adult food depends, among other things, on the expected size and breed of your dog. Small breeds (such as dachshunds and pugs) can be fed puppy food until they are 12 months old, i.e. even during their junior years. Medium-sized dogs (such as Australian Shepherds and Border Collies) are usually switched over after teething is complete, which is around the age of 6 months. Large breeds (such as Bernese Mountain Dogs and Rhodesian Ridgebacks) can be fed our Adult Chicken dry food starting at 4 months of age.

After puppy food, we recommend switching exclusively to our Adult Chicken dry food. The reason for this is the calcium-phosphorus ratio specially tailored to growing dogs, which, just like in Puppy Chicken, is only found in our Adult Chicken variety. This ensures that even if the switch is made prematurely, your dog's nutritional needs during the growth phase continue to be met. Other PLATINUM Adult varieties are not suitable for growing dogs. In the worst case, switching to other Adult varieties too early can lead to irreversible growth disorders.

If the switch to Adult Chicken is made before the end of the first year of life, the feeding recommendations for puppies and young dogs should continue to be followed until then to ensure an adequate supply of nutrients.

PLATINUM wet food for puppies should be fed until they are 12 months old, regardless of size and breed. Switching to wet food for adult dogs earlier than this is not recommended.

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* The daily feeding amount can change due to age, breed and activity of the dog.