4Health Dog Food
A large retail chain store for home improvement, agriculture, lawn maintenance, and pet care called the Tractor Supply Company rolled out a new pet food brand called 4Health in 2010.
This brand is marketed as premium and affordable with “optimal nutrition for optimal health”. Their dog food comes in both dry and wet varieties, and they just added a grain-free formula. The Tractor Supply Company takes great pride in the fact that 4Health dog food is 20 percent cheaper than other national brands of the same quality. Does this brand really bring a bang for the buck like they claim? Let’s find out!
Who Manufactures 4Health Dog Food?
4Health dog food is owned by the Tractor Supply Company, but it’s manufactured by Diamond Pet Foods, a pet food production giant with plants in Missouri, California, and South Carolina. They’re notorious for using subpar ingredients from overseas, which we take into consideration in this 4health dog food review.
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4Health Recalls 2018
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Latest Recalls:
In December 2011, Salmonella was found on the premises of Diamond Pet Foods’ Gaston, South Carolina production facility. As a precaution, Diamond Pet Foods issued a voluntary recall for all of their dog food brands with the best-by dates of December 2012 through March 2013. 4Health dog food did not test positive for Salmonella, but Diamond pulled it off of the shelves anyway.
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4Health Dog Food Review
According to Tractor Supply Company, 4Health dog food has:
- Fresh meat as the first ingredient (except for the healthy weight formula)
- A blend of Omega fatty acids
- No wheat, corn, or soy
- No artificial colors or flavors
- A lot of antioxidants
This brand comes with a lot of glowing testimonials. Some dog owners have noticed an improvement in their dogs’ coats, stool consistency, teeth, weight, and overall health. The positive changes could be attributed to the fact that each 4Health dog food formula provides the right balance of nutrients to the type of dog it’s designed for. After reviewing the top five ingredients of 4Health dog food (chicken, chicken meal, cracked pearled barley, millet, and brewers rice), we would say that 4Health dog food is a solid brand that indeed delivers a whole lotta bang for the buck! (Where else would you find a 35-pound bag of quality dog food for only $30, after all?)
Here’s why: Chicken and chicken meal provide a great amount of protein. Cracked pearled barley is a good source of fiber, but some dog owners don’t like it because it provides only modest nutritional value and it can be used as a type of filler (although it’s way better than corn, wheat, and other cheap fillers). You can say the same about brewers rice. Millet, however, is a quality ingredient. It’s a gluten-free grain that’s hypoallergenic and rich in B-vitamins and fiber. The only worrisome ingredient we could find in 4Health dog food is the dried beet pulp. Even though it’s high in fiber, it’s a controversial ingredient among dog owners. Some say it’s a type of cheap filler; others deem it necessary for intestinal health and blood sugar levels.
Here’s the bottom line: we’re fans of 4Health dog food. We think it’s a reliable brand. If you have a Tractor Supply Company nearby, it’s worth checking out this brand!
In-Depth Look At 4Health Salmon and Potato Formula
Since 4health is a private label brand, it’s a little difficult to find information on their dog food. However, the Tractor Supply Company has the ingredients and nutritional information listed on their website. Let’s take a look at the information provided for one of their formulas, 4Health Dog Food. The first five ingredients in this formula are:
- Salmon
- Ocean fish meal
- Potatoes
- Peas
- Cracked pearled barley
We’re happy with the fact that salmon and ocean fish meal are the first two ingredients. It’s because raw meat contains about 80% water and most of it, along with many key nutrients, is lost after cooking. However, the ocean fish meal makes up for it with its high protein content. Meat meal is a form of meat concentrate, and it generally contains 300% more protein than raw meat does. This formula contains dried chicory root and dried fermentation products, and that’s a good thing because those nutrients work together to support the digestive system. There’s also a good amount of antioxidants, especially vitamin E and selenium.
It appears that each ingredient in this formula serves a specific purpose. We like that the ingredient list does not contain any cheap fillers or useless ingredients. The crude protein content is 25%, the crude fat content is 14%, and the crude fiber content is 3%. This is a good balance of nutrients for healthy adult dogs. All in all, we consider this a good formula to feed your dog. It’s not the absolute best one out there, but it’s really solid and considerably better than other formulas in its price range.
Where Can You Buy 4Health?
4health dog food is available exclusively at the Tractor Supply Company stores and on their website. If you want to find the nearest Tractor Supply Company store location, take a look at the top of their website. The nearest location will automatically be generated. You can click on “Change Store” and then enter your preferred zip code to see a list of all the locations near you.
I have been very pleased with the 4health puppy for 8 months now.I really want a healthy food with no hidden junk.I have believed now for 8 months that this food was made by T.S. and could be trusted .I had no idea it is a diamond product & that we really can not totally trace where the ingredients come from ??????:( I really have to rethink this now.I m so tired of turning around and seeing all the dog toys and treats from China.IM actually ready to scream .Even before I got my lab puppy,for years as I heard more and more about cancers in dogs , I said myself its from whats in their food s .
I started my dog on 4health probably 1-2 months ago. Just this week he started scratching nonstop like he has flees. I took him to the vet and there was no sign of flees so they concluded it was from the new dog food. I thought 4health was supposed to be a very healthy food and it still may be, just not too good for the skin!
Try the Salmon and Potato formula. The extra Omega-3 will help with the skin irritation. Your dogs also may be allergic to chicken (if that’s the formula you tried). Salmon formula would solve both issues.
We had great success with the salmon and potatoe one that was recommended by a friend because of our dogs’ itchy skin, but this last bag doesn’t smell like fish as the others did and the dogs would sniff and walk away. The pieces of food are smaller and darker than the last bag. Frustrated because it was helping their skin… Now they are scratching again. Seems just too much to ask for healthy foods for our pets and humans too these days. Aggravating! So much money spent on junk food, who knows where its made anymore.
I have a 2 1/2 year old American Pit Bull Terrier who I took in as a rescue. I fed her the same food all my other pitties eat thinking she should be fine. I noticed she shed quite a bit for a short haired dog and she’s solid white so it’s harder to tell if they’re loosing a lot of fur cause you can always somewhat see her skin and freckles but it got to the point where you could see huge spots that she was scratching/gnawing at constantly. It was horrible!! I started her on the Salmon & Potato formula over a year and it’s amazing at the difference in her and she LOVES it!! She’ll go lay her head in her food bowl whenever she thinks she needs fed. I’m a single income mother of 5 (4 pitties & 1 boxer) and as expensive as it may seem to me (compared to 50lbs of some other crap for $26) I will never stop feeding her this food!!
We just out our pup on salmon and potato and he is doing great.
IT DEPENDS ON WHICH FORMULA YOU TRIED ON YOUR DOG. I HAVE FOUND THE TURKEY POTATO DOES REALLY WELL WITH DOGS WITH ALLERGIES AND NEW PUPPIES LEARNING TO EAT DRY.
My Cooper has the world’s WORST skin allergies. Every spring/summer we have to fight just to keep him at bay with the itching, scratching, biting, licking, etc… We started feeding our dogs and fosters 4Health last year. This Spring/Summer was the first season that I don’t recall giving him ANY medication. Not sure if it’s the age, or food or what, but I’m chalking it up to the food. I will always feed 4Health to him and hopefully we can continue to have amazing allergy free seasons! PS.. I only feed Grain Free to all adult dogs that come through my house. Puppies get the puppy formula. (Wish there was something besides just Chicken for the puppies, because Chicken is known to have allergy issues). Wishful thinking!
They have it in duck grain free too our dogs love it but, this last bag is different and our boxer has been having terrible gas….anyone that knows what a gassy boxer smells like will feel us on this. I use to feed blue but it is sooo expensive but, may have to go back cuz this is a stinky situation
I just opened a new 35 pound mature adult formula and the 2 of my 3 dog kids on this bag are dealing with very loose stools and gas. I too noticed this bag was a different color and smelled different. My lab and hound developed the reaction within a day of eating out of this new bag. Currently treating for two days if continues I will be spending the day at vet hospital. I know it’s the food because my third dog is on a different formula than the two that are sick. I checked for a recall but found nothing. I’m angry! What can I do? Already thru out the bag.
I have two extremely sick dogs as well from the food! One stopped eating it completely… My big dog still is sick going to have to take him into vet! NOT HAPPY
I am so glad I looked this up. I have had my dog on 4 Health for about 8 months now and he has developed horribly dry skin that flakes like crazy. He is scratching non stop too.
Maybe allergic to something Salmon and potato is good to try.
Yeah my mom’s dog is allergic to salmon, which is in my cats’ food for her dry skin. Every time she manages to get some cat food, she gets itchy paws which she obsessively licks.
4Health has different varieties, my Dog has skin problems with the Beef mix wet food, so I switched her to Chicken and Rice, her skin problems went away, the great thing about 4health is the variety that gives you the flexibility to find something that will work.
Between my husband and his sister we have 4 dogs. They were all on the same type of 4health grain free, can’t remember the exact flavor. All four dogs started chewing and scratching relentlessly. Every time you would pet/brush them their skin would be super sensitive. They all had scabs and bald spots. We thought it was hot spots being that it was summer. My sister in law’s dog got so bad she almost lost her tail. We all switched to 4health Mature Grain and Soy Free. All dogs started to get better. By the second bag of the same exact formula the symptoms started over again in all four dogs. Wondering if there is a contamination issue. We have switched company’s an so far all four dogs are doing better. We will never buy 4Health again!
We switched our Black Lab over to 4Health almost a year ago. Previously she was having all sorts of skin problems on her hind quarters + yeast infections in her ears. The previous dogfood was a National Brand that was mostly corn, soy, etc. I didn’t link the skin problems with her food until I did some reading & study. We can’t afford the ultra-premium brands so 4Health is the best we could do. I want to report that she has made a dramatic change while eating the 4Health Salmon blend + a supplemental probiotic enzyme powder. Her skin & coat is now so pretty, it’s helped on weight-control, and she has such a more relaxed gentle nature about herself now. The whole family has been pleased & we won’t go-back to anything else.
Wow, it’s like you wrote my own story. I, too, have a Black Lab who had skin problems for years. She was so miserable that she would scratch her back on the fence posts to the point of her skin being bloody.
She also always smelled yeasty though she didn’t have yeast infections.
The first year it showed up we thought it was due to fleas as they WERE a problem that year. The next year we figured it was the food and went through a long trial-and-error period trying to pin down what set her off. The only food we found that helped her was Blue Buffalo’s limited ingredient recipe but it is really pricey! Plus, she wasn’t a huge fun if it.
Finally someone told me about 4Health Grain Free and I am simply amazed at the difference in her. Her skin has healed, her fur has grown back, she loves the food and she is not miserable anymore!
We feed the regular (not grain-free) 4Health food to our 9 other dogs and incredibly, they ALL like it. The Pomeranian isn’t thrilled but she eats it, and she’s always been the pickiest one of them. We give them the chicken and rice recipe since that’s the version profiled on dogfoodadvisor.com but I imagine they would be just as happy with any of the flavors.
I can’t say enough good things about this food. Just wish I had found it earlier!
We have 5 dogs of varying breeds and ages. About 2 years ago we switched them all over to the Salmon 4Health dog food. They all loved it, and their coats shined right up and they are happy with this food. Our 2 little dogs are super picky and wouldn’t eat much of the national dog food we were using we were constantly switching and mixing up the food to give them a variety, that seemed the only way to keep their interest. That was very frustrating for us. So once they got on this it was a quick response to the food and now they are eating almost on a regular basis (lol, still picky stubborn girls).
In the past 6 months once the grain free Whitefish version came out we switched them again, with zero problems or issues. All eat it and we are completely satisfied with the outcome. This is a food we plan on sticking with; the fact that it keeps us out of the big pet stores is an added bonus.
When we switched to 4health, two of our dogs were having skin and loose stool issues on a national brand. We noticed the changes almost immediately. We had always stayed away from products with corn, chicken, and grains, but two of my dogs still suffered. We use the salmon 4health and have never had any issues, and we have been using the food for over two years.
We have been using 4 Health Chicken and Rice at our shelter kennel for about 5 months. We kept having issues with runny yellow diarrhea or soft stool and bloody stool. The vet would test and found high levels of bacteria and would put the dog on medication for and the blood would stop. As soon as we stopped the medication, it came back again. We eliminated every possible cause, leaving only the food. We switched half the kennel to a different food and the problems immediately stopped, while it continued in the other half. Our conclusion is this food has caused the problem and cost us lots of money in vet visits, tests and medication.
I’m a little confused with your statement. Did the 4 Health cause the issues or another food and then 4 Health stopped the issues. Thanks.
My golden retriever,, Honey, was on it for 2 years until her death at at least age 13 (adopted fully grown in 2002) and she ha no scent at all, her fur and skin were beautiful and she loved it–and we loved the iny poops. After he death we adopted a blind Great Pyr mix who had been fed vegan by his foster for a year. He as so skinny, ear infection, skin infection. God bless his sweet gentle soul, he died of spleen tumor rupture just 3 weeks after we got him, buthe had managed to put on 3 pounds during the time and his skin was so much better. We now have a 110 pound great pyr and he loves it. We actually combine two–duck & potato and whitefish & potato. For nis night meal I also mix in a little turkey stew I make for him–boil together lean ground turkey, frozen peas & carrots, fresh slices of sleet potato and apple chunks. Had also give it to my last two dogs, Moose loves it the 4Health and the stew. We really like this food and never had a problem with it.
I have a 8 year old chow/ german shepard mix that has food allergies to most foods and I have finally food 4 health, whitefish and she loves it. It has helped her alot as well
Thanks for all the comments. I have a large beautiful male German Shepard that had what appears as a mild seizure recently and the only thing different is I had been giving him a can of Pedigree canned dog food nightly. Well I started to research and the complaints were over the top of people talking about their dogs having seizures and even death. Well back 18 cans went to Walmart and shopping at TV I went. I’m feeding him and the other two the canned chicken and rice for seniors and also mixing the salmon and potatoes dry slowly in too their Benefit Healthy Radiance with salmon after reading negative reviews on it too. So hoping 4 health is the answer as that was a scary experience watching a big dog over a 100 pounds stager then loose control of his bladder. What ever is in that Pedigree apparently has done this numerous times before, so be ware.
i can’t feed my mastiff anything by Purina (Pedigree is Purina) because there is something in all their food that he’s allergic to!
I started my Callie (black lab/shepherd mix) out on 4Health when she was about 9 months old. At first she was on another brand that made her itch and her coat was horrible. Once she got on 4Health she has done great. Her coat is shiny & soft, breath smells great (unless she has been chewing on a bone) and her poops are solid. We switch it up to different flavors but have realized that she can not do the pork as she has the runs bad. We took the food back to TS & they let us get a different flavor with no issues. We have a rescue who was under weight & now that he is on 4Health he has a great coat and great weight. This is one food I will never take them off from.
i feed my dogs it but i dislike the fact that they don’t has big bags of 4 health hip and joint treats anymore
We have been through 2, 30# bags of the 4 Health Turkey & Potato — 1st bag was great, he loved it, his skin cleared up, his poops were dark and hard so his anal gland issues cleared up. 2nd bag of the exact same food — it looks different, he doesn’t finish it, his skin is bad again, his poops are soft and all anal gland issues have returned. What the heck? Have they changed the formula? Is the Turkey & Potato manufactured by different companies? I cannot imagine why 2 bags of the same food should be so different? Anyone have any ideas?
CAUTION!!!!
My lab has been eating 4Health for over a year and it really helped clear up his allergies and yeast infection prone ears. Three days into this LAST bag of beef & potato adult kibble had us seeking emergency vet services to save his life. He was vommiting, weak, and became afraid to eat anything. After 2 very expensive weeks of multiple vet visits and a specialist appointment scheduled for tomorrow we are hoping to finally hear whether the toxins in the food were the cause of his internal organ failure and if his life can be saved. IT ONLY TAKES A LITTLE OF A BAD BAG OF FOOD TO KILL YOUR BEST FRIEND!!
Max’s Mom – We just recently are transitioning over to 4Health food for our Cane Corso! Your post about scared me to death. Please follow up and let us know what “toxins” you are speaking of. I am hoping and praying for a full recovery of your baby Max!!!
Me too! I am going to have to switch off this even though I just got it 😛 Earthborn is expensive but I am switching again
I have three Maltipoos and have been feeding them 4 Health for two years. For about the last year and a half one of my females has had seizures, approximately four. I just assumed it was something to do with her genetically. Just today my other female had a seizure. She is eight and hasn’t ever had this problem. I do not give my pets treats and the only common factor is the dog food. I will not be using this food again. It’s not worth the savings.
If your dog has a seizure ice on the back of the neck seemed to help.
I am confused. I thought this was some of the best food on the market.
I feed both my girls 4health. My 9 year old toy fix terrier is picking and was becoming over weight from the other foods even when fed the right amount when we for our English bull I switched to 4health the grain free white fish and they both love it. The little one has lost some weight and is looking healthier and our bullie has been maintaining good weight with out becoming over weight I’ve never had an issue with runs or anything. However when I bought food last week I decided to try the salmon and Potatoe mixed with the grain free white fish. The girls pick out the white fish and then eventually way the salmon later in the day where as before they ate their bowls right up. Not sure if one tastes better or not but I think I’m just gonna stick to the grain free. They both look amazing on this food so why mess with it.
My dogs don’t like the salmon either. It’s the only one that gets left in their dishes.
Thought I was helping my pug with allergies and bought the Grain free duck and potato formula from 4Health. Now , after all the reviews I am scared to feed it to him UGH!
I just saw your post as I was reading some reviews. How’s your pug doing? I just purchased this formula this afternoon and came home to find that my dog (Gino, 1.5 yr male Pit Bull) only sniffed and turned away. I was looking forward to seeing him tear up his entire bowl. I even bought the turkey and sweet potato canned food to accompany….hoping for an easier transition with the meat. Now granted I didn’t gradually put him on this with his other food (Pedigree), but after reading those reviews I could not stomach purchasing another bag!!! Anyhow…..in the past we had purchased a cheaper dog food because of budget but he wasn’t gradually introduced to that brand either; which is why I don’t think that’s the case. So, is your baby still enjoying the duck/potato formula or have you switched??? I’m trying to find a good dog food as we have recently lost two of our other pits recently. Want to keep this one as healthy as possible.
Just started feeding the 4health small bites to my 12 morkie. She was on Diamond Lamb and Rice and I acquired this free bag of food from Tractor Supply from their Vaccine Clinic. The responses on here kind of scare me but I will see how it goes. In the past, I was so picky about what she ate and was buying the high end foods that didn’t agree with her at all.
Just started feeding the 4health small bites to my 12 pound morkie. She was on Diamond Lamb and Rice and I acquired this free bag of food from Tractor Supply from their Vaccine Clinic. The responses on here kind of scare me but I will see how it goes. In the past, I was so picky about what she ate and was buying the high end foods that didn’t agree with her at all.
Well she ate it for one day! I started mixing it with her old food too. On the second day she wouldn’t touch it. I found a nice pet store a few miles away that carries some great food called nutrisource. I feel good about giving her a food she likes and is doing good on. It also hasn’t had any recalls.
my dog and i like 4 health sweet potatoe..but copper sulfate has been killing dogs
please take it out;;its not something that needs to be in there…
I started feeding my dogs 2 yr old shepherd and 4 month shepherd 4health lamb and rice, I noticed about week after feeding them this food there poo was yellowish and looked like a cow-patty.. So the vet suggested that for 4 days I cook them chicken and rice then introduce the food back to them again.. Well I did that and there poop is still the same as it was before.. Not sure what to do now, and now my 4 month pup is diggin like he has fleas even though he has none.. Any suggestions would help??
Wow, my dog is on a medicated shampoo now and he has been eating 4 Health Whitefish and Potato and his skin is so nasty! He has open sores from scratching. What on earth is safe to feed them? Guess I am going to find a different brand.
We have been buying 4Health for our dog and recently tried him on the Whitefish & Potato… He has such a rash under his coat, you can fee the little bumps under his hair
on his back and now he has red splotchy places on his belly starting to come up. His back hair is starting to come out in places and his skin is getting in awful shape that we had to call the vet… The vet suggested based on what we told them to use a medicated shampoo called Universal medicated shampoo, it is a antibacterial and antifungal shampoo and give Benadryl once a day to see if it helps or not. We are hoping this will give him some relief .. A lot of dog foods are having so many recalls that nothing is safe to feed your dog anymore.
I’m confused too, nasty reviews, but still 5 stars? I don’t get it.
I have been feeding like 15 dogs 4health for years and no ill effects. I have switched formulas (slowly) they have all done really well.
My rescue pit , has developed I red dry skin, also after a year that we feed him with 4health salmon & potato formula this summer her skin was so shiny and healthy, and now is terrible!! I ‘m disappointed. I’m comparing other brands but except for wellness core grain free the ingredients, are very similar and more expensive , any suggestions ???
Thanks
Try the Authority Grain Free dog foods from Petsmart. We have been using them for about 3 years now and have had ZERO problems. Our dog is a rescue dog and she is hyper sensitive to grains and would break out in huge hives all over with other brands. Since going to Authority grain free, she has had no problems with itching, her skin and coat are really nice, and her grain induced seizures have been totally eliminated. We love it and the price is very reasonable.
I found 4health Grain Free Whitefish to be the best kind of 4health to use for my dogs. Natural omegas in it help with there coats and being grain free helps with allergies!! I DID NOT KNOW it was a diamond product!! Not sure I like that so they better get there act together or will have a lot of unhappy customers
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This is our personal experience. I have several dogs. One named Brandy is a 10 year old grey hound mix. She started stretching and pulling her hair out summer 2013. She did have some fleas so I assumed it was that. After riding her of the fleas we noticed she still inched and she was slowing down. Of course, again I assumed the gradual slow down was age. Still she had loss of hair on back and was always scratching with no fleas were found. We were told that she was having a reaction and it was believed that she was so allergic to fleas that one bite set her off. I decided to go grain free to see if it was the food. I found 4 Health beef and potato – grain free. She and the others loved it. We are now on the 4th bag and she still eats it all and wants more. She has stopped scratching all the time, her hair has grown back, she dances around when she gets excited, her coat is looking amazing and appears shiner and thicker. For now, we are very pleased with the results.
I have been feeding my 2 year old rescue dog the whitefish and potato since we adopted her 6 months ago. Everything seemed fine until this week when she quit wanting to eat it and has yellow diarrhea. After reading other reviews I assume it’s the food and will not be feeding 4 health anymore
I started my 3 year old lab on 4Health whitefish formula about 2 months ago and she has had 2 episodes of severe vomiting and diarrhea. The first episode cleared up after 2 trips to the vet and multiple medications. The vet said she probably had some type of infection and I didn’t really think about it being the food. Now she is at the emergency vet for this second episode and she is now having bloody diarrhea. Her lab work is fine and her X-ray is also normal so I am thinking it must be the food. I am definitely throwing away all this food and will NEVER buy it again.
I hope your little girl is doing much better now!!! I just purchased the duck and potato formula this afternoon, but my baby (1.5 year male pit bull) didn’t even touch it. He just sniffed and walked away. Have you found something that she enjoys?? HELP QUICKLY. I don’t want to put him through any unnecessary as we just lost his parents which was a horribly terrifying experience. However, being that he didn’t touch it I was going to pick up the whitefish formula tomorrow to see how that went until I came across your post. Any recommendations…..
I recently adopted a yellow lab mix (pretty sure he’s a pointer mix but the shelter didn’t know) that had previously been a stray (although I’m sure he had a family who abandoned him because his records indicated that he was overweight when he entered the shelter, he was not hard at all to socialize, and is totally used to people and unafraid: not normal stray behavior). Poor boy was skin and bones when we first got him. I suspect this is because the shelter was undersupplied and so likely fed small portions of less-than-adequate food. He had caught heartworms at some point and so had a miserable time going through heartworm treatment with stomach problems, inability to put on weight, lethargy, etc. I’m in college and I brought him to my parents’ house over Christmas where he shared food with their lab, who sheds a ridiculous amount even for a lab, has always had horrible skin problems, inability to lose weight, and is constantly wheezing. They had put their lab on beneful on the recommendation of the vet, which is what my dog started eating while he was there.
What a mistake! That food is awful awful awful. My dog loved the taste and it’s the only dry food I’ve ever seen him eat quickly, but he started shedding like crazy and didn’t regain the energy I expected him to when he was finally declared heartworm free. I did a lot of research and decided to switch him to 4 health because it is decently affordable and has received very high ratings. He’s not the biggest fan of the taste, I have to mix a small amount of 4 health wet food in with the dry. But what a HUGE difference the switch made! He had begun to shed an INSANE amount while eating beneful and within a week or so on 4health he stopped shedding. His coat is so much healthier, and he finally put on a little bit of weight. Friends who sporadically come to my house have noticed a huge difference and always comment on how much brighter and healthier he looks and acts. He has the perfect amount of energy now and has bloomed into the cheerful peppy dog I always knew he could be!
I mentioned all the bad things I’d read about beneful to my parents and they switched their dog to 4 health like I did. They have noticed major skin improvements. She has also become much more energetic, stopped shedding the insane amount that she used to, and isn’t always fighting for breath.
I am so thankful for this food. It is more affordable than other purportedly “healthy” options of lower quality and, in my opinion, is so much more dependable. After having a vet recommend Beneful, which I’m sure a lot of you know has been in the news recently because of some really scary harmful effects, I will never trust a vet’s food recommendation again. I hope that, since my boy is only 4, starting him on such a nutritional diet will extend his active years. Looking back I just wish my parents and I had known to do our research rather than trust vets on all of our previous dogs.
(Side note: sometimes when I can find fresh salmon at a good price, I add that in with his food, which certainly helps with coat and skin.)
Wow! I too, have been looking for a more healthy food to feed my dogs ages 8 and 5. I figure I try to buy healthy for myself and my dogs deserve it too. I just bought a bag of Grain Free Small Breed Formula last week and while they’re not crazy about it (why would they be? how many kids do you know that would rather eat veggies than hot dogs, chips or cookies?) it is my job to feed them what I believe to be healthy food. Dogs can be allergic or become allergic to certain ingredients at any time just as we can develop allergies. Products that we buy for ourselves change ingredients on a regular basis so they become more ‘cost effective’ so we can certainly expect the same for dog food. Yes, it’s a source of irritation or worse, a source of serious illness, but it is a fact of the economy of today’s world. Kudos to sites like this that help consumers become educated.
I don’t like the fact that Max’s Mom came on this sight scared the hell out of a lot of people blaming 4 health for her dogs death before the blood work came back and never updating the cause of death results. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was made up.
Jo-Jo is my boy and I would only feed him the best, so when he began putting on weight and having difficulty with the supposed #1 brand of food on the market for healthy weight management, my wife looked closer at the different brands of foods and what was in them. That is when we found 4Health and Jo-Jo has been on it ever since. He went from a 152lb overweight Rotweiller to a stealthy 117lb loveable brute who can still sand to loose a few more lbs. We owe it all to his diet of 4Health dry and wet food…now if his Aunt & Uncles can stop giving him so many treats when they are visiting…hint…hint.
Can you tell me which type of 4health you ate using to get Wright off your dog.
I have always been a dog owner and strive to provide my dogs with the best nutrition possible without breaking the bank. Two of our dogs (one has now crossed the “bridge” but he lived to a ripe old age), had severe skin allergies. In addition, our girl had occasional seizures that kept getting worse with each seizure. We tried all different types of food for their skin allergies and although a couple of the very high end foods worked, they didn’t exactly relish eating them. We found 4Health when our local Tractor Supply first opened and decided we’d try the grain-free varieties. Well…they worked. Their coats improved, their overall stamina and energy improved (even for our very old guy) and our girl stopped having seizures. We have been feeding them 4Health for about three years now and (knock on wood) during that whole time she has not had a seizure. Maybe coincidence but she went from having seizures where we prayed we wouldn’t lose her to nothing at all. Our vet said that he’s been hearing very good things about 4Health. And the best thing–AFFORDABLE. When you’re feeding multiple BIG dogs, that’s a definite plus!
Both my dogs age 12 & 8 have been switched to 4 health 35 lb of dog food. from taste of the wild suppose to be the same ingredients but cheaper priced ! omg my poor babies have had nothing but yellow poop oh what a mess everywhere !!! within 2 days of having it & been fighting it for a week tried not feeding them 12 to 24 hrs gave them chicken broth -rice-boiled hamberger & pedialyte …then start mixing just a little of 4 health with taste of the wild & still a MESS “TAKING THEM OFF 4 HEALTH” & praying for them to get better calling to complain to the company.
I’m so sorry to hear about your misfortune with your babies. What other brands have you explored?? I purchased the 4Health dog food this afternoon, but my dog didn’t budge at it. I did initially go in to purchase TOTW but as I compared ingredients I noticed this brand’s ingredients were parallel to TOTW so I went with 4Health because it was cheaper. Boy am I regretting it after reading these posts. I was just going to switch him to a different formula but now I’m just totally saying forget it!! My dog, 1.5 yr male pit bull would usually eat anything and never had a problem if I switched his food in between budget crisis….so for him not to budge at it, it must be bad!!! Did you go back to TOTW??? Let me know as I will be returning to the store tomorrow of what I purchased to be getting something else.
We switched our 12 year old dog to 4Health Salmon and Sweet Potato formula recently. She did ok on the first bag, but the bag we bought this week has kibble of a different size and color than the previous bag. After feeding her one night from the new bag she became quite ill with blowing liquid stool and vomiting. This bag is going back to Tractor Supply on Monday and I will be feeding her something else. After realizing it is a Diamond product I question their quality control. To me, it is not worth taking that chance.
You might want to add that the grain-free versions aren’t made by Diamond
Can you tell me which type of 4health you ate using to get Wright off your dog.
We have We have a 4 month old Great Dane puppy that we feed 4Health large Breed food to. He loves the food. He is very healthy and growing appropriately. He has lots of energy and we love the product.
We have a 4 month old Great Dane puppy that we feed 4Health large Breed food to. He loves the food. He is very healthy and growing appropriately. He has lots of energy and we love the product.
THE CANS OF WET FOOD WAS FED TO MY MOTHERS DOG A POODLE WEIGHING ABOUT 4 POUNDS. SHE BECAME VERY SICK VOMITING ECT. WE EXAMINED THE CANNED DOG FOOD BY 4HEALTH AND FOUND AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF BONE SLIVERS THROUGHOUT THE DOG FOOD AND IN MULTIPLE CANS OF THE FOOD. WE CALLED 4HEALTH TRACTOR SUPPLY AND THE FDA. THERE IS AN ONGOING INVESTIGTION CONCERNING THE BONE SLIVERS PLEASE PLEASE PEOPLE CHECKK THE DOG FOOD CANS AND ACTUALLY TOUCH AND EXAMINE THE WHITE PIECES IN THE FOOD THAT LOOK LIKE RICE, IT IS INFACT BONE SLIVERS. THE POODLE FINALLY HAS GOTTEN HER HEALTH BACK BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR PET AND YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN REALIZE WHAT IN THIS FOOD.
MY MOTHERS DOG WEIGHING 3 POUNDS STARTED HAVING THE RUNS AND VOMITING, THE 4HEALTH WET CANNED FOOD HAD BONE SPLINTERS ALL IN IT! TOOK THE DOG TO VET AND DID AN XRAY AND HER WHOLE INTESTINES WAS FULL OF BONE SPLINTERS. WE OPENED ALL THE CANS AND ALL OF THEM WERE FULL OF BONE SPLINTERS. SHE IS FINALLY BETTER AFTER 800.00 WORTH OF VET BILLS AND MANY AGOONIZING DAYS AND NIGHTS OF STOMACH PAIN AND TORTURE!! THE DOG WAS SO PITIFUL! WE CALLED 4HEALTH TRACTOR SUPPLY AND THE FDA! CHECK YOUR WET FOOD PLEASE1
For 26+ years, raising and training GSDs, I have been a faithful Pro Plan feeder. About 6 months ago, a friend recommended 4Health. The first time, I blended the salmon and performance brands, with no issues. This second round, one of my dogs started to itch like crazy. Vetted and treated for “hotspots”, no improvement. Several trips to vet, different meds….nothing was working. Since the first go around with this food went so well, never dawned on me it would be the food. Another trip to the vet last week, vet suggested food. My poor girl is almost bald (several test for mange, all negative). To say I’m completely disappointed is an understatement. 🙁
Fed 4health, dog has food allergies. Got salmon this month for omegas but dog ate once now won’t touch it went back bought whitefish only ate when other dogs near. Food protection syndrome. If Diamond makes is there recall?
I’ve been looking for a new dog food for my yellow lab that I rescued a while back. I’ve been feeding him Purina Light & Healthy. He has some kind of digestive problem and is licking his hind end A LOT. I’ve taken him to the vet to get his anal glands expressed which helps for a little while. I think he may need a new dog food; one without wheat or corn. He doesn’t have any skin issues, just anal gland issues. I’m worried about him being allergic to fish after reading some of the other comments. Would 4Health brand be a good alternative to try? Could this possibly solve his digestive issues?
I would suggest 4health. I sell it everyday and all my customers & dogs love it. My mother in law just switched her dog too and the dog has much more energy. I would suggest going to one of your local tractor supply stores and talking to one of the team members and explaining your needs.
I am on month three of feeding my babies 4Health Salmon & Sweet Potato formula dry food. One of my babies, mix Pit, has been plagued with seasonal allergies most of his life resulting in the spring and fall doses of predisone to stop the itching. He has been off his meds for about a month now and for the first time he has a full body of hair. With this bag, though, he has gone from an eat anything eater to not finishing his food.Could be the heat, don’t know. All my other babies have had beautiful coats with this formula also. One of my newest rescues, also a Pit mix, I have noticed sores on his belly and under his front leg pits. Other than that his coat is beautiful. Reading these reviews has me a little concerned. Between the first and second & third bags of 4Health Salmon & Sweet Potato, the color of the food has changed. It is darker in the last two purchases. You can definitely smell the salmon in the food. I do the grain free because of the extra omega 3. The cost at my TSC is $36+ for a 35-lb bag. I am going through three bags a month. In spite of the good results, I don’t know if, on a fixed income, I can continue to afford feeding my babies this. Don’t know if I can afford to start making their food either seeing I have 3 big dogs, 1 medium size dog and 1 small dog. It shouldn’t be this hard to find something at a reasonable price, that is actually healthy to feed my dogs and not worry about hidden health issues!
I will not be buying this again, in fact I will be returning the bag I purchased. When feed my dog I see what looks like a piece oh silicon mixed in with the food.
Help!!!!
My 2 labs- One female age 12 1/2 and one male age 7 are sick! Been giving 4Health C&R for a few years with no problems. Recent bag has led to diarrhea, vomiting, and itching like crazy! ( No fleas, btw)
Should I dump this bag, and try a new one? Or switch to Grain Free??
Did you ever get resolution? I just posted a review here because my dogs are also sick (so far, loose to diarrhea-ish yellow stools, no vomiting). They are on the grain free duck & potato formula.
I like earthborn better myself. T./S carries it and the grain free compared to theirs feeds about 3 cups less a day for an 80 pound dog.(If you do the math you save more as well) Also, my local co/op has it for 39.99. Saves money in the long run and more of the good stuff. Plus it is meat based, Bison is the best. 4health is alright, but I like earthborn better.
I’m about to pick up my 8 week old female Labradoodle in Ohio. The breeder is using 4 Health Puppy which is only available at Tractor Supply in addition is 50 miles from my home. After reading ingredients from China, I now don’t plan using it. I will not buy hand tools from that country. I would like to use Taste of the Wild Fowl mix. I would appreciate any feed back on type of dog food to use.
Taste of the Wild is made by Diamond same as the regular 4 Health, the Grain Free 4 Health is made by a different company.
I was super excited to introduce my dogs to the duck & potato 4Health grain free dry good. They’d been on food from the vet (almost $50 a bag!) Which I could not afford. Switched them to the Wal-Mart (Pure, grain free) which they tolerated well but weren’t too excited about. So, after a few months of that food, I bought a small bag of the 4Health, weaned them properly over a week, and thought it would be a great option for them. Well, the first day of only the new food, they both experienced a marked increase in stool frequency, kept waking up during the night to go. I thought it was odd, but decided to give it another day. The second day (which was today) they were alright during the day, but now it is 2:30 am and they’ve both produced multiple loose-ish stools in the last couple of hours. I cannot see any other reason for this massive change other than the food. They love the taste for sure, and after just the weaning week and the two days of only the 4 Health, their coats are shiny and beautiful. BUT both are miserable and now I am off to buy pumpkin to settle their tummies and we will go back to their former food. If we can’t get them back to normal, we will have to see the vet befored they dehydrate. Very concerned. Have sent a message to Tractor Supply Customer Service and hope there isnt a wide spread issue with this batch!
I have just left one of my precious golden retrievers at the vet, her kidney’s have tanked. I will be taking the 2nd one for blood work today so we can start treatment before her kidney shuts down as well. If she survives we will be going back to Nutro Limited Ingredient dog food. I have found “Petfood Direct” who will deliver the food to my doorstep via UPS for free, sorry I didn’t research this option sooner.
Before everyone jumps to the conclusion my dos got into something, please understand this is an inside dog. I am retired and she is never left outside without supervision so she was not poisoned, she didn’t get into anything she wasn’t supposed to. The only thing that has changed is her diet.
I recently relocated to a small town and could not get the Nutro so we attempted to give her what I thought was a quality food. This is the ONLY thing it could be, we are only on our 3rd bag.
Feeding your dog anything made by Diamond is like playing a game of Russian Roulette and when or if you eventually lose, your dog will be the one who ultimately pays the price.
I trusted these people too as most of the reviews I read sounded very good. After my dogs ate a Diamond made food contaminated with Salmonella Infantis in the spring of 2012 and got sick, I wrote a review about it and it was never published. Some sellers of dog food will carefully select which reviews to publish and often tend to favor the more positive ones. Do a thorough search on any food you choose before buying. Luckily, my dogs survived although one of them never got back to what was normal for her. I also got sick at this time but due to having no health insurance, I had to just suffer through on my own so I can’t know for sure if I was sick from the contaminated dog food or not. Be aware that any contaminated food brought into your home will also put every member of your family at risk if they come in contact with it.
Do you know what it feels like to feed your dogs something that you believed to be good for them only to watch them get sick or even die? You feel as if you poisoned your best friend and you will never forget that it was your hand that fed it to them. The guilt never, never, ever leaves you.
Also be aware that some non-Diamond brands of pet food are outsourced to Diamond for manufacture so you’re not even guaranteed to be safe with a non-Diamond brand. Find out who makes any food before buying it. Stay away from Diamond.
Diamond’s pet food products are hyped up to sound like the ultimate in quality at an affordable price, but if you end up paying with your dog’s life or if other family members get sick from handling it, ask yourself – Was it worth it?
So true! We fed our dogs Kirkland brand dog food for years with good results. Then we noticed that they were developing skin issues. This is when I suspected that Kirkland reformulated their dog food so we switched to 4 Health. They seemed to do well on 4 Health for about 6 months and then the skin issues returned with a vengeance. At this point, I felt a change in diet was again needed so we have been feeding Eagle Pack lamb and rice dry dog food. It is pricier but the dogs love it. They now shun 4 Health completely. I have 1/2 bag that no one will touch. Concurrently, my father’s German Shepherd became horrifically ill. He lost over 20 lbs and had open sores all over his skin. His vet also said to take him off of 4 Health immediately. He now eats Natural Balance. His recovery has been slow but he is making a comeback. What do Kirkland and 4 Health brands have in common? They are both produced by DIAMOND. We have learned the hard way to avoid any food produced by Diamond like the plague.
I see now that 4Health has put out a pork dog food. I have always been under the impression that pork is undigestable by dogs. Does anyone have any information on this?
It would nice if Tractor Supply keep it in stock all the time. I’m now ordering my dog food online because because they are constantly out of stock. After moving my dogs from Nutro to Duanond and 4Heakth, once again out of stock on both. Too boot, can’t order online from Tractor Supply. Lost this customer forever Tractor Supply
The problem that I have, as a veterinarian recommending dog foods to my clients is…, WHERE do the ingredients come from? Yes, it’s all well and good that it’s manufactured in the U.S., but if the chicken is coming from China, who cares if it’s manufactured here?
I have a 7 month old golden doodle, 4 health is the only food he’s been on. We were already feed our cats 4health so we were so pleased with it we put our pup on it.. He loves it and the vet is very happy with his development. Our vet also said that 4Health is on his good list of foods to use, so we will be sticking to it, if a problem comes up we will try a different flavor. Our doodle is 7 month and at 67 pounds so it is agreeing with him.
I’m glad to see all the reviews . Have been feeding Nutro for 5 yrs… Dogs are sick of it AND it’s expensive . Have been researching and 4Health seems to fit the bill AND ITS CHEAPER! My dogs are lovin it. Thanks for all the research.., it helped me pick the right good for my beloved animals.
I bought my first bag of Salmon 4 health a week ago. After 48 hours, my 8 year old lab was a little itchy scratchy…but my 1 year old pitty was scratching so bad that she had her lower few nipples swollen and bleeding, she was lethargic and had a rash all over her belly. I have been administering Benadryl to my pitty for 2 solid days now and switched back to their regular food. She is still a bit scratchy and gets very itchy when her Benadryl is wearing off. Her mood seems a lot better and her belly is 50% better. This food did not agree with either of my dogs, especially my pit. Won’t try another flavor….not worth the risk.
PS: my dogs are not sensitive to several other foods they have had, they aren’t allergy-prone.
I have a picky, spoiled, raised by hand from birth, 4 year old boxer.. She was on Old Roy from weaning until she turned 2.. Then for some reason, wouldn’t touch it anymore.. I spent hundreds of dollars buying top of the line foods to entice her to eat.. She is of French line descent.. So she tends to be on the skinny side.. I have tried Bil-Jac, RAW, and vitamin supplements to help her gain weight.. Nothing worked.. Until I made yet another trip to TSC and discovered 4health.. After all the money down the drain finding her a food she would eat, I thought, “Oh, what the hell.. Why not?” Best decision I have made! She eats it up! Her coat is shiny, she still acts like a puppy, her eyes are bright, ears don’t have that dog food smell, breath doesn’t stink, hardly no eye discharge, and is as healthy as can be! I do my own vaccines, only take her to the vet for Rabies, and am in love with how she loves this food! I love that I can switch up the formulas without it tearing her up(if you have a boxer, you know how bad that can be!) too badly! She has never turned her nose up to it, been on it over 18 months, and will never change!
Will no longer buy any dog food with products or fillers from China. I was buying this product at my local Tractor Store in Northern California. I will no longer buy this product because of the poor standards in China, and lack of USDA, inspections for pet food. My dogs are more then pets, they are my trusted companions and best friends. I ‘am glad I read this article, I have purchased this dog food for a little more then a year, because of the advise from the Tractor Store employees. I have noticed more itching and dry skin on my dogs. I believe we all should just say NO, TO ANY CHINA and even many Canada dog foods or companies that use products, fillers to keep the cost down. It’s not worth having a dead dog or sick dog because of NAFTA, and Pacific Trade deals. will now go to Royal Cain.
I have two small dogs (male bichon, female poodle/bichon). After feeding this food to my dogs, they both are constantly itching, scratching, and our male gets hot spots. After many tests, vet visits, we can say it is this food causing it. I will not be purchasing this product again. My dogs have suffered enough.
At the recommendation of a fellow bulldog owner, I’ve been feeding my 2 1/2 year old English Bulldog the grain free 4-Health for the past year and he has done very well on it. His coat is shiny, his ears are clean and he has never had any digestive issues since switching. I’ve also notice less shedding, which is a bonus! I go back and forth between the chicken and the salmon formulas, and he likes both. He experiences no discomfort or changes in digestion during the switch between the two formulas. This is a great product that my pet has done very well with and I recommend it often to friends looking for a good dog food for their pet.
Has anyone’s dog have an allergic reaction to the one with main ingredient, lamb? Had our puppy on the puppy one with chicken and switched her to one with lamb and know she has a bad rash on face, neck and front paws….
I’ve used lots of different dog foods over the years and wanted the best because I did loose a dog when the treats made in China were finally exposed (Wagon Train) if was too late for my Beagle she was already sick. I will never go thru that heart ache again but I’ve found Grain Free 4Health to be good for my dogs and very happy to say that. My dogs are my family and I treat them as best as possible and want to feed them something I TRUST which is Grain Free 4Health… Thanks Tractor Supply for caring about our dogs to make quality foods for them.
I use 4Health canned in rotation ( Lamb and rice / Chicken and rice ) for the bulk of my by boxer’s diet. I find that my previous boxer as well as this one has much better digestion and stool formation on a rotational diet ( switching every 3 days or so.)
4Health lamb/chicken canned is relatively clean with simple and meat ingredients and rice that is closer to a limited ingredient diet than other easy to find canned foods.
4Health is relatively inexpensive at 0.99/can for 13.2 oz and calorie dense. I myself avoid “stews” as they tend to have lots of fillers and way fewer calories per can so they’ll cost you more in the long run. 4Health lamb and rice is packed to the brim. The chicken and rice has a log that looks like it sharank and pulled away from the can a bit.
4Health is the base for the diet.Snacks are mostly animal products ( corporal caps/rib bones, bully sticks, bully slices , pigs ears, lamb lung , L.I.D. biscuits and a decent kibble for a food ball ), Raw instinct frozen patty thrown in every couple of weeks and maybe a weekly can of venison/sweet potato , duck to help round out nutritional sources,
I avoid wheat, corn, soy, added sugars (bully slice exception) propylene glycol and a few others ( I do wish carageenan was replaced by potato starch myself.
My mother’s rescue (shih tzu / cairn?) mix is also on same regimen with excellent results.
I have three dogs. A German Sheppard, a Yorkie, and a Black Lab/ Newfoundland mix. I started all of them on 4Health about six months ago and have nothing bad to say about the product. The dogs now have healthy shiny coats, and they eat the entire bowl of the Lamb and rice food. I do buy three different types of this food. One is a small breed dog, one for a large breed puppy, and one for a large breed adult dog. I can say that I am very satisfied with the product
There are only 2 ingredients that come from China, tourmaline and folic acid. Tourmaline is only in the lamb, and folic acid is the LAST ingredient on the list. My understanding (after calling) is that the folic acid (as well as other ingredients) face an intense scrutiny. Most of ingredients are from U.S. and the other few are from Germany, New Zealand, and one other I was totally comfortable with. My dog has been having GREAT success with this food. In fact, not all the 4Health is even made by Diamond…Perhaps you should give Tractor Supply a call, and make sure your info is current?
I started feeding my extremely sensitive dog with allergies the beef and potato formula and her coat improved and her energy is great for an 11 year old dog!
My two dogs have been on 4 Health for years and are both very healthy! It’s rated very high but yet we have all theses complaints!
I guess is just human nature to complain about something and everything! It’s very difficult for most people to say anything positive about anything!
Hey Chiara, I changed our puppy’s dry food yesterday because she didn’t seem interested in the one we were giving her. It was Fromm family puppy gold. I changed to 4health grain free puppy food. She liked it a lot, but in the middle of the night she had violent vomiting and really bad diarrhea. Unless she got into something nasty, not an improbability because she is, after all, a puppy, I am wondering if it was the 4health? Have you heard of this happening with this brand? Thanks for posting this. Jan Hillman 🙂
seems the author has a problem with Diamond simply because she doesn’t know the source of ingredients ,, Look a bit closer and you’ll see that very very few makers of dog food tell you the source..Diamond actually has a very good recall record.
Live in South Carolina, I started feeding my 3 boxers 4 Health in 2012, they did great for 4 years. They changed the ingredients in 2016 here to be meat first. At first it was awesome their coats were shiny, minimal shedding super shiny coats our Vet commented how good they looked. Seems like 3 bags ago I would say June something changed. Scratching all the time (no fleas, flood killed em) coat no sheen, and Damn they stink. My guess yeast. Guess I will take my monet to someone else, easily spent 2000. For real MAT
Have the formulas changed in 2016? My dogs used to love this food (especially chicken & veg), but now they walk away. What’s up?
I have 4 Senior Dogs from 14 lbs to 90 lbs in weight. They’ve been on 4 Health for several years now – the Mature Dog dry. And my 8 cats are on the 4 Health for cats. This year I have experienced in inordinate amount of shedding from the dogs and cat. I have to vacuum every single day – my American Bull Dog sheds the worst. After reading all the comments I’m now wondering if it’s the dog food and am going to switch over to the Salmon/Potato brand and see if it stops the shedding. Tractor Supply’s 4 Health canned food is made by Simmons who makes 95 different brands of canned food – for Walmart, Petsmart, TS and other nationally known companies. Go to Simmons website – a few years ago they had major problems with various canned food. I called them on the phone and they were quite rude to me – one guy actually hung up on me.
what going on with the food. My last bad of salmon and potato is a darker color and my dogs are still eating it, but one is having loose stool? Any one else having this problem?
What is going on? I have bought this dog food for awhile now, but now my dogs can’t keep it down! They are vomiting everywhere!!!! Something is not right and you all need to look into this! I can see I am not the only one with this problem!
We love 4Health! Our three large dogs had been on the food for several months. We then switched to Costco brand because it was cheaper for a larger amount, so we wanted to try it. I will say it was still grain free and comparable on paper. I believe that it’s still manufactured by Diamond, but since switching our dogs have had skin issues and diarrhea constantly for the last few months. We are definitely switching back to 4Health!!
Wilbur is a six year old Bloodhound that has allergies and was costing us a small fortune at the vets.
We tried a lot of different things to narrow down anything that would that would help him and not bankrupt us. We were in Tractor Supply for horse food and saw the 4Health dog food. We had tried Blue grain free, and it made him sick. We took a chance on 4Health grain free for large dogs and that is all I have bought for the last couple years. Shortly after I started 4health there was a local dog show in our area. Bloodhounds are not a popular breed so off to the dog show I want to find out what dog food the Bloodhound show dogs were eating and to possibly gain more info on allergies that may be common to that breed. I spoke with the handlers and was very pleased to learn that 4Health was the only dog food they used. I then spoke with other handlers of other breeds and only found 1 person that was not using 4Health products. I also use 4Health grain free dog food as a treat for him. Since the grain free large dog has the larger pellets, I pick up a bag of grain free 4Health for smaller dogs with a variety of flavors. He loves them.
We have two Shih Tzu (6 & 3), one Boston Terrier (almost 2), one American Bulldog (8) and a 12 week old German Shepherd puppy. We had tried EVERY “expensive” and “top” brandd for our fur babies since our Shih Tzu and American Bulldog have the worst bellies. Both Shih Tzu will vomit due to sensitive tummies, and our AB will get diarrhea easily, (yes Vet checked for everything meanwhile) I’m talking about months on the same food, prescription foods, didn’t matter until we tried the 4Health Grain Free Chicken and Rice. He oldest four have done so well that we are starting our GSD puppy on their puppy formula today since she came to us with Iams and has loose stools and horrible gas. She is parasite and bug free also per our Vet.
We have been very pleased with the food and our fur babies love it and tolerate it wonderfully. We will continue to be loyal customers, since it has been great for our multi-breed fur kid family.
I switched to this dog food last month. One of my corgis developed some kind of allergy. She was litterly pulling her hair out. I took her to the vet and they gave her shots. I immediately went to tractor supply where I shop all the time.
Spent hours reading every brand of dog foods ingredients. Chose this one with salmon and potatos.
Her hair has grown back beautifully, my chunky monkey is a happy girl! Thanks for the great product!
Our dogs have been on the 4health salmon and potato food for 5 years now and they love it. our pomerainian has food allergies and he does very well with it, he used to get a bad dermatitis by his tail and he shed really bad. since we started him on it, he has no skin or digestive issues and the shedding is minimal now. Our pit mix and our elk hound have beautiful shiney coat and shedding has been reduced.
I purchased 4Health Grain Free Chicken and Vegetable dry dog food tow weeks ago. My 9 year old blue heeler seemed to like it. Then 4:30 am last Monday, I noticed he didn’t finish his supper. I decided to give him a treat with real turkey. He turned his head. He didn’t want to move and did so slowly. Since it was a holiday, I googled and searched to see what I could do for him.
Someone suggested the 4health can food. I purchased two different flavors. I’ve had to throw them out. This weekend, he was getting closer to his old self, but he just refused the 4health dry food even after I poured real chicken bone broth on it.
Could the 4health have made him sick? Anyone else have their dogs refuse to eat this brand? Dry or canned?
Hi,
I would like to know where the food comes from for the 4Health brand dry dog food. Is it from our country and are the chickens and beef free roaming? Any information would be so helpful as we are planing to buy this brand if made in the USA. Don’t want any thing that comes from China or sick animals.
Thank you.
Kate
I have had my rescue adult Chihuahua (he is 7 1/2 yrs old) for almost 8 months and he has been eating 4Health whitefish and potato GRAIN-FREE and he loves it. his digestion is good. his skin is in good condition and his fur is soft (long-haired) when he first arrived i tried him on different foods and i noticed he was having little seizures but since i put him on the following diet, he no longer has them.. i believe the secret to healthy skin and fur is that the food is grain-free. grains can cause all types of problems with an animal’s health.. from skin issues to digestive issues. he eats Merrick Lil Plates lamb stew which has veggies and is also grain-free.. yum yum lol ..he also eats Blue Wilderness duck bits (grain-free) for a treat.. another yum-o .. also Blue Wilderness has turkey biscuits (also grain-free) which he loves, as well.. he is very healthy (thank God).. for a treat i give him a piece of pupperoni which isn’t good for him but hey.. why not? 🙂 just a little cheat.. it’s definitely not the main food in his diet.. anyway just letting you know about 4Health and how he loves the whitefish and potato.. am thinking of trying him with turkey and potato next and then perhaps bison… i’ve tried him with foods that have sweet potato (which is better than white potato) but he sniffed and walked away.. maybe some day 🙂 take care and God Bless
I have been using the 4health food for about two years now. We have three Mini Schnauzers and a Pug. I started using the 4Health when we got our first Mini. With in a year we had got another puppy and a Rescue Mini. Our first dog started having problems with digestion. After many trips to the vet it started to clear up and the others stated the same problems. Now all four of our dogs are having issues of vomiting, Diarrhea. I was thinking what could all these dogs be getting into to make them all have problems. I can’t find any reason around our house for the sickness. They are watched all the time for things they maybe eating, that they should not be and we cant find anything. The only thing they all have in common is the food they are being fed. I am looking for another food to try right now just to see if all these problems clear or not. But the vet bills keep going until i do something. Today i will start a test to see what happens. I have two that refused the food this morning and started vomiting again. One of them just finished a round of meds three days ago and here we go again.
I was very displeased to find out 4health dog food is made from over seas ingredients . I would like to know if their Lamb & Rice formula is made from over seas ingredients , and what your thoughts are of it ? Tom O’Rock
Has anyones dog has very mild seizures on this dog food? Mine has been on it for 3 weeks now and has had 2 very mild episodes since this change.
Has anyones dog has very mild seizures on this dog food? Mine has been on it for 3 weeks now and has had 2 very mild episodes since this change. Just trying to rule things out.
Last Fri. 10-13-2017 My Lab mix had a seizure. Eating 4 health turkey and potato. We are so upset. He has been eating this for over a year but the clerk accidently gave us our last bag was for large Dogs .( great Danes) two and a half weeks later on this he had his first seizure
My 2 Siberian Huskys, loves 4Health, and I am very pleased with it as well. I give them the turkey and potato or beef and potato, grain-free 4Health dog food for almost a year now. they have done really well with it. their coats are shiny and bright, they are very energetic and the veterinarians says they are very healthy as well, and they are very pleased with their health. so I would give 4Health five stars and recommend.
All four of my dogs have a grain allergy, all grain free dog foods are very expensive, why? Because the food pervayers know you need it, hence the extremely high markup, no extra ingredients, just some taken out. I changed to 4 Health and was pleased my dogs coats are shiny and silky their weights are very good, theirs eyes are beautiful and clear, until I read 4 Health was a Diamond Foods product, here in America our “slaughterhouses” are held to laws by which animals are killed none of which are humane in my book, but if anybody ever sat down and watched any video on the horrors of animals being slaughtered anywhere overseas, it is truly heartbreaking, especially in. China. They skin cows alive, the dog and cat meat trade, do we know if we are even getting beef or chicken in our dogs food? I won’t be purchasing this product again, paying a little more to at least make sure an animal wasn’t tortured overseas for my dogs meal is worth it. Extremely disappointed in you Tractor Supply.
I just purchased a can of 4 Health Sensitive Skin Formula dog Food. I have a mini Pom and he loves it. He has had major skin problems and his vet cannot figure it out. He s literally pulling out his hair.
My question is if you have samples of the dry same formula I would like to try it. You won’t believe how many big bags we have tried and he won’t eat them. So we would like to try some first. We are praying this food helps his allergy. Thank you and God Bless, Jon and Sandy Rose