I use Buddy Boy 24/20. It keeps the dogs up, good stool and such.

I add a lot of chicken to their diet so the 'keeps them up' is aided quite a bit. It is seldom the dog food alone, it is the additives that can make a cheaper bag food more effective.

The Buddy Boy is $22.50/50lbs here in NC.

I have never checked reviews so I ma not sure what they would say. I would think at $0.45 a pound it falls into the flavored cardboard category.

I fed Buddy Boy many years ago and was well satisfied but the distributor moved to a new brand. I jumped brand to brand trying to feed a lot of dogs for as less money as possible, and still 'keep the dogs up'.

I could never get a solid stool with the Diamond brands, and there was Nutrena brand here that was the same. There was a brand called Chestnut Mountain and it worked very well and was even cheaper, but in rural areas you are at the mercy of what the guy who buys it by the truckload and re-sells. His flavor has to be your flavor or the search continues.

Black Gold was one I liked but I had to drive about an hour or so to get a pallet. It got to be more that I wanted to deal with at the time, but the dogs did well on it.

EWO