Raw food Allergy???? - Page 2

After the results I tried to feed a venison food and he was fine for about 4mths then he started to develop a reaction to that, his skin started to go purple and his fur started to drop, so since November 2007 he has been fed Skinners Duck & Rice and luckly as been fine since otherwise I think I would have had to go to a vegetarian option.. I am in the UK, this is a UK company that produces food for primarily for working gundogs.
This is the ingredients

Whole rice (40%), duck meat meal (20%), naked oats, peas, whole linseed, sunflower oil, sugar beet pulp, vitamins and minerals. It as a high oil content 11%


He may have stayed okay on the venison, but he was in kennels as I was in Germany and the kennels ran out of his food even though I had supplied them enough, and they gave him a lamb diet for the last 3 meals, since then he was not able to eat a venison food either raw or cooked.
Duck he can eat either raw or in the dog food, he is ok with pheasant aswell which he gets as a treat.
Pam

Just another thought or two.... One, maybe the food is to hot for her. I was feeding Orijen adult for a quite awhile and I know the protein content is high, not sure what the Fresh Fish protein content is but if up around the 42%, it might be that causing the itching. I personally would still feed Orijen but can feed raw cheaper, it has gotten quite spendy. Number two reason, a chance she could be detoxing. I know alot of people like RC but have read some who don't. I am not sure what the ingredients are in it. But Orijen is a good food and of course fresh food is too. Many dogs will detox and it can cause them to itch for awhile while their system cleans itself out from junk. My old girl detoxed when I switched from Canidae to RAW. She itched and got some little bumps on her. I would do like has been advised though. Reading some in your other thread it sounds like she likes the Orijen alot. Stick with just it for awhile and see if the itching stops. If it does, slowly ad the chicken to her diet. If the itching begins again she most likely has an allergy to it. Not a good idea to keep switching things on her. Sounds like she went from RC, to Orijen fish and some kind of pattys, and now to fresh chicken in a short time. Start with one only until you know how she will handle it. Good luck!

i have said this before:
know where your raw meat is coming from.  if you are buying supermarket poultry that is grown commercially, it is full of antibiotics and possibly growth hormones.  who knows what else.  i think feeding raw is great, but don't assume that just because it is raw that it is sooooo much better for your dog.  raw meats that are organically grown or at least 100% natural truly are better, but the cheap commercial stuff is really no better than most of the kibbles you can buy. 
pjp

My 13 year old dog is sensitive to chicken and turkey.   He does great on red meats, fish, pork, etc.   Any form of chicken or turkey will set him off itching, red ears, licking his legs.  Treats, kibbles, raw, dehydrated..  doesn't matter.  Interestingly eggs are fine.

Heather

Thanks everyone. to answer some questions:

ziegenfarm: the raw food I buy is antibiotic and hormone free, I believe its USDA certified organic but I am not 100% sure.

Trialrider: you are correct in my transition of food from 9months of RC, then Orijen (2 week transition from RC), then pattys (one day, she wouldnt touch them after that first day), then raw / orijen (which she loves to eat but just get scratchy and licky). 

The detoxing could be the case thats why i dont know if i should stop, but i am going to take your advice and give her purely orijen for about 1 month and then add the chicken and see if the itching starts up. when she was on RC she was itching and when on the Orijen the itching cut back alot.
Thanks

Could be something else in the Orijen, like the flax. Another reason I don't like most of those patty RAW things, they add stuff to it too. If you just feed "chicken 1/4's for a month or 2 and she was still itching, you could be SURE it is the chicken. On the Orijen, you wont really be sure it isn't one of the other ingredients listed, setting her off.