do you feed once or twice a day for race dogs now not pups ??????

i feed twice bf and dinner on race nights the dog dosent get feed dinner till after racing as feed normally about 5.30pm but would get a pre race snack about 2 ish

Noel, you are aware that I have not had a dog at home for 20 years now but back in those days, I did what I think was the standard thing (and probably still is) in feeding twice day. As with most people, it was a smaller breakfast and a substantial evening meal. However, I did tend to feed a slightly more substantial breakfast than most people and cut back slightly on the evening meal (even it out a bit). I would be interested to know what you guys in Ireland feed and in particular how you feel about beef v's processed dry racing diet feed and/or the combination of the two. With regard to racing at night, right or wrong, I would tend to err on the side of feeding the extra bit a little earlier rather than later, hoping that it was going to pass through the system before race time.

to run down what we feed here raw beef is always used here by most trainers

a usual bf for me(the dogs) is broan bread toasted with some fish and fruit

dinner would be some nuts with beef chicken(cooked and skinned) fish tripe
with veg and soup(veg broth) once a week pasta instead of nuts and once more rice in its place sunday is differant no bf just a bone in the morning and no work for them dinner is usually just nuts hot water and cheese

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Mate, I knew you were a chef but I thought it was at a restaurant for people, not a canine restaurant. When I hopefully get to Ireland one of these days, I am going to make sure I drop in at dog feeding time. At the time of writing I was just having my wheetbix, muesli and banana and for a moment thought I might have been at your kennels. My feeding was a lot less exciting than this. Although I did, as previously advised, start to even out the morning and evening feeds to some extent, for many of these years, breakfast was little more than biscuit or kibble and some low fat milk (some dogs have intolerance) and the occasional egg yoke. Once a week a brisket bone. Evening would be a mix of beef, processed dry food including some kibble and of course the usual addition of some veges and vitamins such as Feramo D and White E. Vegetable oil was also occasionally added and apple cider vinegar. A stew was given once or maybe twice a week or maybe tripe. I did also at times use chicken and did win races on it. Anyway that's what I remember but maybe dementia is setting in. With hindsight it must have been all wrong as most of them weren't much bloody good and with the good ones I found another way to ruin them. Poor little pets, they deserved better.

lol yes the dogs have a strick diet i have a full kitchen at the kennels with a walk in freezer chest freezer fridge bath and shower for them plus a maga hound walker and hot box (like a sauna)

fully tiled floor to roof
next door a have the food shed 10 feet by 30 feet for all the dried food
all the kennes and runs can be accessed from the kitchen so there no walking around to differant paddocks just out one of the doors and your in the paddock
i only have a samll operation here about 40 dogs in total
which includes three broods pups saplains and racers

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Oh Noel, this sounds like the Shangrila of the "greyhound world". Here in suburbia, I had at most, only 3 kennels and the use of a shed on the back of a carport in which I had a bit of an ultasonic machine and bench and nothing much else. Meals were prepared in our kitchen but as already explained the 'fare" was nothing compared to your canine menu. By the way, I do 99% of the cooking around our place these days (just the wife and I and our daughter, whose housed is rented out until July), however, it is pretty basic stuff. I must give credit to my wife as she is quite generous with positive feedback, she "likes to eat almost anything that someone else cooks". She was however, a bit cruel when I left the tuna out of the tuna spaghetti. Coops, you will probably not be too impressed that I am obviously a Sensitive New Age Guy (SNAG).

Mate you have got to change your attitude towards the missus mate or you will lose all respect from her. A little bit of yellin at her from time to time is whats needed, to put her in her place. Show her who's boss mate.

Ouch, cut it out, don't, aaaaah.

Sorry about that mate. The missus sneaked up behind me while I was typing this and she belted me a few times. It didn't hurt but.

coops

i feed twice a day, bf, around 7am, and at 4pm main meal, if racing well i feed bf, then around 2pm i feed a small size, ie, meat ball size, then after race, main meal

Pardon my ignorance Noel, but what sort of nuts do you feed?

high protein nuts for the racers and low protein for the pups broods the one i use is called gem (trio bloom company name)

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