Re: [CHICKENS-101] Deli-cat dry food

 

Sorry, I was inundated with 7-year-olds yesterday--granddaughter's birthday party.

Looking at the ingredient list, you might be better off feeding the cats that container.

From their website:

Purina Deli-Cat
Ingredients Listing
Ingredients Brewers rice, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, ground yellow corn, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), fish meal, turkey by-product meal, calcium carbonate, phosphoric acid, salt, brewers dried yeast, dried liver digest, added color (Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5, Yellow 6 and other color), potassium chloride, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, taurine, choline chloride, DL-Methionine, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, niacin, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), L-Alanine, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, riboflavin supplement, biotin, folic acid, copper sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, citric acid, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, sodium selenite.

You are feeding an obligate carnivore. Looking at this list, you might rather feed this to raccoons or something.  First 3 ingredients are grains. Then poultry by-product meal. By-products can be organ meats, but they can also be parts of the animal that aren't bio-available, like esophagus. They can't be hair, horns, hooves, feathers, though  some of that makes it in there just in the processing. 

Corn is hard to digest, and is one of the main causes of skin problems and allergies in animals. Brewer's rice is just that, used to brew beer. Soybean meal is high in estrogens, and most soy stuff in the US is GMO. According to the list, the 7th ingredient is the first whole ingredient in the food. The meals, fish, chicken, turkey, whatever, is the dessicated and ground up whole animal.  Calcium carbonate is a calcium supplement, phosphoric acid is to maintain a healthy pH, salt, for flavoring, Brewers dried yeast is the remnants of the yeast used in brewing.  Dried liver digest. In this case, this is dried liver broken down enzymatically or chemically.  The artificial coloring can lead to all kinds of stuff. Most of the other stuff is supplements. 

Get used to it, folks, I like the animals better. It'll cost more, but get those cats something lots better than this. The grocery store food is little more than garbage. While cats probably shouldn't eat dry food--they're made to get moisture from their food--if you're gonna feed dry, make sure meat is the first ingredient. If money is a factor, go mid-range on it, like Nutro Max or Authority (the Petsmart brand).

Yeek! this stuff is bad news. 

Debbie

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