How long do you feed a flavor before switching

[Leslie, Yogi & Maci Bear]

Just curious, I will be switching to adult Origen in another month and I wanted to offer Yogi some variety. How often do you change everyday, week, or after a bag is empty? 5 or 15#? Planning what I want to get ordered. I think there are 3 mixes we might try. Thanks!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I'd start by just switching formulas with each bag, which for most people is 2 to 4 weeks. Once the dog is accustomed to a variety of foods and has had no digestive issues, you can switch around as often as you like. I used to keep two smaller bags of two different formulas and give one for breakfast and the other for dinner. But that's probably not the most economical way to do it, lol.

There really are no hard and fast rules about this. If the dog has no digestive issues, you can switch around however you like. 

[Leslie, Yogi & Maci Bear]

Thanks!

[Deborah Brown]

We used to switch flavors with New Balance because the dogs seemed to get bored with it.  Since feeding Orijen, I've only used the Adult Dog formula.  It is cheaper than the others and the dogs love it.  In fact, the most exciting day is "new bag" day when I open a fresh bag of food.  :)  If you find that your pup is in love with Orijen then you can save yourself some money and stick with the cheap formula.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

We never change between Orijen flavor options. Frankly the fish one is just more than I want to pay and the other one is for more active dogs than mine are.  My dogs do not get bored with their food.

[Leslie, Yogi & Maci Bear]

Which one is for the more active dog? I didn't notice this

[Stephanie and Ragley]

I would assume Regional Red? I didn't know it was for more active dogs...Ragley loves that formula though. I only know because I bought a "sample size" bag of the food to use as training treats. The store clerk acted like I was crazy when I told him I was doing it that way and pointed me towards their wide selection of training treats that they stocked, but $5 for hundreds of healthy, safely sourced, and tasty treats sounded better to me!
Plus he said this as my 14 week old puppy was patiently laying at my feet while I browsed the selection lol I was tempted to say, "I think I have the whole training thing covered, thanks..."

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

It's not for more active dogs. See my post below. 

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I'm thinking you mean the Regional Red, Nancy, but it really isn't for more active dogs. It's just the red meat formula. The calorie content and the feeding amounts are the same. It is the most expensive of the Orijen kibbles. 

[Stephanie and Ragley]

Ah! must have been typing mine while you posted that! Thanks for clarifying. Do you think alternating through the grain-free acana formulas along with orijen formulas would be ok? I know I would have to pay attention to the protein contents and try to keep them relatively balanced, but since they are both from champion is it safe to assume you could rotate (with those things in mind) without having to "transition"?

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I'd stick with one line or the other. No particular reason other than it makes more sense to me, lol.

You would not have to transition, though, if you did want to feed Orijen and Acana. 

[Oliver & Elizabeth]

We rotate between Acana Duck and Pear and Orijen Regional Red. They have totally different nutrient profiles and we haven't had any issues so far, and we've been doing this for about a year. I'm not sure how this would work for everyone but you could try. We use these two only because they're Oliver's favorite types of Champion food. Why he likes the two totally opposite meat combinations is a complete mystery (I joke that he must know they're the most expensive products from the Acana and Orijen lines). The one he gets is really random, recently he's been eating a lot of duck because I've been buying the new Orijen Regional Red freeze dried treats.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Let me also mention here that while variety is a good thing, you do want to reserve a couple of animal proteins for an emergency that I hope never happens to your dogs: A GI disease which requires that you feed a "novel" protein, one that the dog has never had before.