Large breed dog food without chicken
Almost every major brand of large breed dog food includes chicken ingredients or chicken fat, making it extremely difficult to accommodate dogs with poultry allergies. This forces owners to hunt through limited ingredient or alternative protein formulas to find a safe option that their dog will actually eat.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Moving to adult food with potential supplements
- 2Sprinkling dry treats on top to encourage eating
- 3Switching to alternative brand flavors like lamb or turkey
- 4trying out different brands
- 5switching to a salmon and potato limited ingredient kibble
- 6ordering online
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“my yellow lab has a chicken allergy and HATES the PPP salmon and rice. PPP doesn’t make another large breed dog food that doesn’t have chicken and I’m having trouble finding one that is completely chicken free.”source ↗
“It feels like every brand i look at has some kind of chicken in it!”source ↗
“ours was the same way at that age, chicken was a nightmare. we ended up on a salmon and potato limited ingredient kibble and it cleared right up. Large breed puppy formulas without chicken do exist but theyre weirdly hard to find”source ↗
Where this came up
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