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[DoubleJ]

Never had an issue with any of their food except that out youngest dog has a grain allergy.  We switched to the Kirkland Natures Domain grain free food and all has been wonderful.  It's a highly rated grain free food at about half the price of other grain free foods and causes no issues with my dogs.

[DoubleJ]

Something to keep in mind is that allergies are not an instant thing.  Allergies develop over time.  It's impossible to be allergic to something from the first time you are exposed.  It is possible/probable that your puppy has developed an allergy to something in the Kirkland food.  Search the web for the most common dog food allergies.  I'd be almost certain that if you compare that dog food allergy list to the Kirkland food and then the BB food, you'd find at least one ingredient from the common allergens list in the Kirkland food that isn't in the BB.

[DoubleJ]

    Beef
    Dairy Products
    Chicken
    Lamb
    Fish,
    Chicken Eggs
    Corn
    Wheat
    Soy

There's the list from most common to least common

Kirkland puppy food ingredient list:
chicken, chicken meal, whole grain brown rice, cracked pearled barley, egg product, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and vitamin E), dried beet pulp, potatoes, fish meal, flaxseed, natural flavor, brewers dried yeast, salmon oil (a source of DHA), millet, potassium chloride, salt, choline chloride, carrots, peas, kelp, apples, cranberry powder, rosemary extract, parsley flake, dried chicory root, vitamin E supplement, iron proteinate, zinc proteinate, copper proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide, thiamine mononitrate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, ascorbic acid, vitamin A supplement, biotin, niacin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, sodium selenite, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin, vitamin D supplement, folic acid.

Blue Buffalo large breed puppy chicken and brown rice list (You didn't say what flavor you got):
Deboned Chicken,
Chicken Meal,
Whole Ground Barley,
Whole Ground Brown Rice,
Oatmeal,
Tomato Pomace (source of Lycopene),
Natural Chicken Flavor,
Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols),
Whole Potatoes,
Peas,
Flaxseed (source of Omega 3 and 6 Fatty Acids),
Whole Carrots,
Whole Sweet Potatoes,
Blueberries,
Cranberries,
Barley Grass,
Dried Parsley,
Garlic,
Alfalfa Meal,
Dried Kelp,
Yucca Schidigera Extract,
L-Carnitine,
L-Lysine,
Turmeric,
Dried Chicory Root,
Oil of Rosemary,
Vitamin A Supplement,
Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1),
Riboflavin (Vitamin B2),
Niacin (Vitamin B3),
d-Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B5),
Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6),
Beta Carotene,
Biotin (Vitamin B7),
Folic Acid (Vitamin B9),
Vitamin B12 Supplement,
Vitamin D3 Supplement,
Vitamin E Supplement,
Iron Amino Acid Chelate,
Zinc Amino Acid Chelate,
Manganese Amino Acid Chelate,
Copper Amino Acid Chelate,
Calcium Ascorbate (source of Vitamin C),
Sodium Selenite,
Choline Chloride,
Calcium Iodate,
Caramel,
Salt,
Potassium Chloride,
Dried Yeast (source of Saccharomyces cerevisiae),
Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product,
Dried Bacillus subtilis fermentation product,
Dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product

[DoubleJ]

If the Blue Buffalo flavor you got was something other than chicken, I'd be inclined to blame the chicken in the Kirkland food.  If both were chicken and the BB food didn't cause the reaction, I'd look next at the egg product as the culprit.  It's the #5 ingredient in the Kirkland food and isn't present in the BB food.  Maybe the fish meal and salmon oil in the Kirkland but, those are down the list far enough it probably doesn't have very much in there.

[bobcat]

I always try to give my dog as much "people" food as I can. You never really know what kind of crap is in that dog food. So I try to give my dog a lot of our leftover chicken, deer steak, elk steak, hamburger, whatever. As long as it's real meat it's gotta be better than any dog food. I figure the less dog food I give her, the healthier she should be. I do use Kirkland brand dog food and have never had a problem.

[DoubleJ]

And don't forget to take that unused food back to costco

[DoubleJ]

I always try to give my dog as much "people" food as I can. You never really know what kind of crap is in that dog food. So I try to give my dog a lot of our leftover chicken, deer steak, elk steak, hamburger, whatever. As long as it's real meat it's gotta be better than any dog food. I figure the less dog food I give her, the healthier she should be. I do use Kirkland brand dog food and have never had a problem.

This too.  If I could, my dogs would eat a raw meat diet only.  Best food for them is their natural diet.  Too much money for me though with 2 100lb dogs

[Stilly bay]

I used to do the raw diet and my dogs were super healthy for it. I just need to get back on the wagon. I had it down to a dollar per day per dog to feed a balanced raw diet.


If your dog comes across something its allergic to it could take up to three months for it to work just one exposure out of its system, so if you don't get an instant fix don't give up or change what your doing unless this get worse -going to the vet is always a good idea.
this is the main reason why allergy screenings are worth their weight in gold, it can take forever and a fortune in different dog foods to isolate a problem on your own, mean while your dog has chewed its arse bald.

I just switched from kirkland ( diamond) to purina pro plan performace because of all the recall, Diamond is cheap enough, and my dogs do pretty good on it, but that company just can't seem to get things right with all those recalls.

[wraithen]

Be very careful with those raw diets. There are a lot of owners that screw it up and wind up bringing in dogs that are having issues due to renal failure. If you do it wrong, apparently it can cause failures in several organs. My wife hates most of the owners that insist on raw diets that don't actually look at how to go about it. I'm not sure exactly what they mess up, but I can't afford it anyway with my dog.

[bobcat]

I used to feed quite a bit of duck meat to my dog, always cooked though.

[MadHatter]

I actually feed rabbit to my dogs until I run out, I just boil them up, put them bones and all through the grinder... Dogs were really healthy for a few months when it was rabbit season as we have hundreds of them around the house...

When rabbit is not in season I use the Kirkland wet food and pedigree dry food.

[singleshot12]

I save all my salmon and trout carcs and stew them up, the bones get soft, also add carrots,potatoes,rice, eggs,chicken livers and kale. My labs do great on it and look extremely healthy

[DoubleJ]

Careful with the salmon

http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/cliented/salmon.aspx

[bobcat]

Salmon poisoning is only an issue if it is raw.