There is a lot of good quality dry dog foods available. I think it is mostly personal preference. I like Arkwrights reasonably priced and always available. Key is not to chop and change different brands as this will affect the dogs digestive system.
One bit of advice I would give is to try and start feeding your dogs fresh meat and offcuts from an early age. This is the best food for a working dog. I try to feed meat as much as I can and only supplement with nuts when I need to. If your looking for stamina for the season its hard to beat the meat. Dogs need a diet of about 90% protein and then 10% carbohydrates. If you feed only nuts with 28% protein this is far from the ideal diet for the dog. This is what I have learned and I can put you onto someone who posts on here and is an expert in diet for dogs if you like. Just send me a pm.

chrisdolan11 wrote: »

so i looked up the brillys choice can anyone tell me whats the actual meat content in it all it says is 21% protein not the percentage meat content which is more important i.m.o

Meat is protein. So if it is saying there is 21% protein you could say it is 21% meat. However I highly doubt this because protein can also be sourced from other foodstuffs such as eggs and tons of others. I doubt that the nuts protein content is made up solely of meat I would imagine a whole host of ingredients make it up. The nuts are then bulked out with on needed carbohydrates.

Basically I would say very little actual meat goes into the vast majority of dog nut brands. Definitely not enough that a dog should be getting.