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Who can help
Hi all,
I've just bought a book called "Home-Prepared Dog & Cat Diets" but I was confused by the vitamin requirements listed in page 82 when I compared it with AAFCO standard. For example, the book stated daily Vitamin A/D requiement for adult dog is 75IU/8IU per kg body weight but AAFCO said it should be 5000IU/500IU, the difference is more than 60 times. As you know excess amount of vitamin A & D is harmful and the information I can get here in Hong Kong (sorry I'm not Canadian....). So, can someone help me? Thanks Kelvin |
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I think the AAFCO standards are per kg of dog food on a dry matter basis.
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Don't be sorry you are not Canadian,we have people from all over the world here and welcome everyone
It's always interesting to read how people from other countries are dealing with pet-problems,so WELCOME to the Forum :love:
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Don't forget that dog foods are cooked at a very high temp and most of the vitamins break down before your doggy gets to finally eat them..
If you look here, there's a multivitamin, with 200iu of vitamin A and dogs have to take from 3 to 5 of these... So it looks like no matter what, they need tons... http://www.healthspan.co.uk/shop/product.aspx?id=MV-D |
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You can check nutrient requirements on this page as well http://www.mordanna.com/dogfood/index.php?page=calc
They're taken from a book published by the National Research Council. |
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Hey, that's great! Finally, a source that doesn't back-source from the AAFCO...
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