Dog feeding test for assessing the nutritional adequacy of practical diets
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Hegedus, M. | Fekete, S. | Janza, F. | Zoldag, L. | Gaal, T.
The nutritive value of dog foods declared by the manufacturer as nutritionally complete and balanced can be best assessed by feeding trials with dogs. A protocol of a feeding trial was developed and tested with working dogs fed two different commercial complete and balanced diets for 8 weeks.The parameters used for evaluating the effect of diets were general health status, body and hair coat condition, change of body weight, haematological parameters (white blood cell (WBC) count, red blood cell (RBC) count, haemoglobin, packed cell volume), and biochemical parameters in blood serum (alanine aminotransferase, urea, albumin).
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