Ditto BSK. I would reduce your dog in the prekeep with the amount of kibble feed, dog has been eating for good health maintenance. In what ever part of the country you live in has a factor also. Assuming this dog is active and not being overfed. In other words not hog fat on the chain. If dog is hog fat can take up to twelve weeks to slowly work to best show weight.

Now here is where I differ IMHO on feeding in the prekeep. Assuming again you have slowly prekeeped this dog before and know it's best show weight. We liked to work a dog depending on the size of the dog. To work the dog at 1/2 to 1 pound below it's over all best show weight. You will see just slightly the top of the hip bones showing and about all ribs showing. You are not into the serious hard work yet, so do mostly easy aerobic trotting and hand walking. Reason for this is to insure all the gut fat is worked out of the dog. This is extra important if you are showing your dog in hot weather. There can be no or very little gut fat in a dog being shown in hot weather.

One other thing on a hot weather show dog. The dog should hopefully be big boned and rangy built with lots of gameness. Heat and lack of air will stop a show dog quicker than anything else. Not a bad idea to breed dogs for the bigger bone structure and rangy built. These type built dogs are hard to whip in any dog show season. LOL

Back on subject. Any of those proven supplements while also putting the dog through it's worming schedule. Add them at a third amount in first half of pre keep. Then full recommended dosage (only) in last half of pre keep. The greens should be canned unsalted greens. Add about three fingers and a thumb full at a time. The greens give the dog enough roughage to keep the bowels regulated and some vitamin K benefits.

You only add the Chicken meat to the keep when you start the serious work. We started out with one chicken back and chicken neck with about a cup of the broth. The kibble amount used in the prekeep will remain the same through the whole keep. Dog losing weight,add another back and neck. Most of our dogs were little dogs,never went past two necks and backs. Make sure to use the skin and all the fat. Do not remove.

The kibble you are using. If this dog show is in the heat. If this same kibble comes in a lower protein and fat content use that kibble formula in hot weather. The higher protein/fat formula can be used in the cold winter months. The higher protein count can create heat in the dog's body. Is why sled dog men use a lot of high protein/high fat source from Salmon fish etc. So lower protein/fat kibble formulas for hot weather dog shows. Long as the kibble has a good quality chicken based feed formula. The dog will get all the needed natural bone meal/meat protein and easier digested fat from the chicken necks/chicken backs.

Some like to feed two solid meals a day. IMHO I disagree due to one can not accurately know the dogs true weight on any given day. Nothing wrong with some good quality fluids 12 hours from the main PM work out. This should be done in the pre keep and the main keep. Start out with eight ounces and check the skin everyday to see how hydrated your dog is. IMHO any AM work should be just hand walking light trotting. The PM is for the serious work.

Sorry if this was as some say. To much information. LOL I probably am preaching to the choir. LOL You and many of these other dog men have learned better and newer ways to skin that cat. I am coming from a time line of the 70's and the 80's. Cheers