Orijen Tundra - thoughts?

[Deborah Brown]

I'm going to assume that some of us here will be getting the free sample from Chewy.  I wonder what the rest of you think of it?

The food comes in light weight patties or "medallions".  There are the same consistency as the small Orijen beef and lamb treats.  These,of course, have a long list of ingredients instead of just being meat.  If you break apart a medallion, they crumble a bit.  The directions say to rehydrate with water before feeding.

I broke up one medallion and fed the pieces dry as a treat.  The doodles seemed happy to gobble it up.

The problem with this food is the amount you'd need to feed and the cost.  The feeding guideline only goes up to a 33 lb dog but if I extrapolate, one of my dogs would need to eat the whole sample bag to make a meal.

[Deborah Brown]

Yes, he's been great.  I like cooking for the dogs but chopping meat or deboning poultry is exhausting when you're talking about large quantities.  Now I just have to chop and food process the veggies.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Maybe you should consider going into the gourmet dog food business, Deb. :) 

[Deborah Brown]

Ha!  I can barely keep up with my three doodles.  Besides someone in my neighborhood already does that.

http://siriuscooks.com/

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

And 30% of 74 is 22.2

62% of 74 is 45.8

8% of 74 is 5.9

So that's pretty close, too. 

[Deborah Brown]

I served Tundra for dinner tonight.  Between my two sample bags, I had enough for half a meal for each dog.  They received 6 medallions of tundra and a cup of dry Origin.

The medallions are broken into pieces and hydrated with water.  It was quite a success.  The doodles licked their bowls clean.  The only other dehydrated product we have tried is the Honest Kitchen food which
was overwhelmingly disliked.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Those doodles are eating good at the Brown's house! 

[Abigail *George & Juno*]

I know I'm late to the conversation, but we just got our tundra on Friday. SO was out of town until Sunday and I've used it at maybe 3 meals at this point. I honestly think we'll keep some on hand. I'm not using it as a primary source for calories, the girls are on six fish and I love it for their skin and coat health. What I've been doing is breaking a medallion in half, crumbling each half over a bowl of orijen six fish, then adding more warm water than it calls for. It makes a good consistency stew. I've only been doing that at one meal a day if at all, so a large bag would last us a bit. We already keep a stock of small cans of wet food and also rotate kefir in their food. Sometimes for treats and sometimes because our 10 month old GD would maybe eat one meal a day if we let her... Shes not food motivated at all. So most days they get one meal of plain orijen six fish, and another meal with a topper of some kind. (Scrambled eggs, kefir, a spoonful of canned food, pumpkin, or this freeze dried orijen) the orijen is definitely the easiest to make, I don't have to cook or even store the leftovers, just reseal the bag. It is expensive, but with as little as I'll use I'm okay with it. Very happy with chewy for sending this free bag. :)

[Deborah Brown]

Good plan.  It's just too pricey for big dogs to eat exclusively.  We feed the regular Orijen and use the six fish variety as a treat.

[Abigail *George & Juno*]

Oh I completely agree! Honestly don't know that I would feed it exclusively to any dog...$$$$
I do understand that it is a good option for traveling with raw fed dogs though. :)