Large Loose Diamonds

Anyone have any recent complaints about Large Breed Diamond Dogfood?
I realize they had issues a few years back with the corn in their food, but the Large Breed does not contain any corn. The reason why I am asking this is because my bulldog is loosing his hair at an increasing pace and I can’t get him to the vet until Monday and we are speculating if the food might be causing it since we just change to Diamond within the last few months. Any thoughts?
Diamond is a fairly low quality food. Here are the first 12 ingredients: Chicken, chicken meal, cracked pearled barley, whole grain brown rice, white rice, rice bran, beet pulp, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), egg product, flaxseed, natural chicken flavor, brewers dried yeast.
A good quality food should not contain, white rice, rice bran, beet pulp, egg product or flavorings
Dogfoodanalysis.com only rates is as a 3 star food. Here’s their review: The first two ingredients in the food are named meat products. The first is chicken – inclusive of its water content. Once this is removed, as it must be to make a dry food, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus unlikely that it is the true first ingredient in the food, and it is likely to be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list. Since the second ingredient is a meat meal, however, this is of limited concern. Chicken meal is the sole meat meal ingredient in the food.
The next 4 ingredients are all grains. These are primarily decent quality grains, but we note that three of these are forms of rice (the ingredient is “split”) and it appears likely that the combined grain ingredients would outweigh the meat meal ingredient in this food. Consequently, our confidence that the food contains a decent amount of meat is low.
Beet pulp is controversial filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
We would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product in the food.
Try Merrick, Innova, California Natural, Wellness, Blue Buffalo, Evo, Before Grain, Avoderm, etc.
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