About forty years ago the guy that turned me onto the dogs fed Field Trial. Looking back it was just about flavored card board. It still had a feather or two in it. We filled two five gallon buckets about 1/2 to 3/4 full or so, then filled with water. Within no time it would swell and turn to a mush, the texture of cheap canned food.

It was forty plus dogs there. Bulldogs, beagles, coon dogs and bird dogs and one big ass Doberman that ran loose on the yard.

On that incredibly cheap shit the dogs did really well. He tree'd coons, jumped rabbits and won matches with the best of them.

The dog is a natural scavenger and will survive on just about anything. The object is to slide off the 'survive' line and ease toward the 'thrive' line.

I knew an older guy that worked in a chicken house. When they 'candled' the eggs any that were not fertile were thrown out. He came home with a five gallon bucket or more of eggs everyday. His routine was the same nearly every day. He fired up a huge pot and boiled the eggs, shell and all. When it cooled he mixed in a bag of powdered goats milk and on occasion a bucket of the cheapest dog food he could find, mostly right off the grocery store shelf.

He won a bunch of matches over the years but around here he was known best for his hunting dogs. His dogs simply put meat in the freezer.

I would think a diet of 90% eggs would be detrimental but it worked for him, and his dogs.

EWO