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What's the best food for my Doberman puppy, including homemade?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Doberman Pinscher | Male | unneutered | 4 months and 14 days old | 17.637 lbs

Which food is best for doberman and what is the best home diet for them?

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Answered By Dr. Melanie, BVSc MS

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Published on September 4th, 2019

Brands of food I like include Royal Canin, Hill's Science Diet, Purina ProPlan, and Iams. I know Royal Canin is available in India, so I highly recommend their puppy food. I do not recommend home diets, it's so hard to get the correct balance. If you really want to do it, wait until Tyson is a year old, then check out these websites below for balanced homemade diets for dogs. I hope this helps. https://secure.balanceit.com https://www.petdiets.com

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    Answered By Daniel Fonza, DVM

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    Published on August 4th, 2017

    Hi there and thank you for posting your questions. If you are planning on only feeding boiled chicken, rice and boiled egg as the primary diet, I would say that this would be a diet deficient in many vitamins and minerals. If you are planning on formulating your own diet, I would use a reputable website that helps formulate a good diet for Tyson. The website I recommend is called www.balanceit.com There are plenty of commercially available diets that are good as well. If you want to formulate your own diet though, I would strongly urge you to use the above link and purchase a vitamin / mineral supplement. Please feel free to contact me with any further questions / concerns you may have.

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