They still sell it Mark but it's up to $2.00kg and may hit $3.00 in the not too distant future, apparently they have an export market for it and were well short of pet mince to fill their local pet food orders last week.

When I used to race Hills Science Diet was the go to kibble but I notice it's ingredients have been altered over the last 5-10 years and perhaps trainers have swapped to another brand.

Cheers guys

It is a filler. There is very little nutritional benefit to be gained from kibble....
Most of the ingredients are indigestible for dogs. Most vegetable matter for example needs to be partially digested beforehand (i.e. offal) for the dog to get anything out of it. They just don't have the necessary enzymes to break down raw (or even cooked) vegetables.

Considering how much they actually get out of kibble, it is ludicrous what companies put into it and what people pay for it!

I've said it many time........it is glorified roughage.

I started training in the mid 70's and I had the privilege to learn from some of the best of that time. Gordon Strachan, Allan Roberts, Ned Bryant. What did they feed.....the best meat they could buy, vegies(silverbeet/parsley/celery/carrots, all cooked)and the additives of the time. I stopped training in 1988 and returned in 2007 and fed this way.

You guys keep calling the dry food of today, Kibble. It is whole dry food. Farrells Kibble was what most trainers used back then, Box 1 4x2 biscuits is that mixture today.

Typical Analysis
Crude Protein 12% | Crude Fat 3% | Crude Fibre 5% | Salt 1%

Ingredients
Wholegrain cereal and cereal by-products, meat and meat by-products (derived from beef and/or lamb
and/or chicken), tallow, dicalcium phosphate, garlic powder, salt, natural flavouring, emulsifier, natural
colour, preservatives and antioxidants.

This was a balanced part of the dogs diet in those days.

Back then backyard trainers were the norm and IMO when big kennels started to arrive easy and more economical ways to feed was a need that had to be filled, hence the whole dry food industry began.

As a trainer do what works for you, if you are having success continue what you are doing, if not change, learn and find what works.

Now we have no real KIBBLE apart from the 4x2's mix so no matter what brand you are using the appropriate amount needs to be worked out. I use XP3020........30% Protien, 20% Fat, I use a minimal amount with racing beef because that is all they need.

Because Farrells kibble was stopped being made a few years back and I got sick of breaking up 4x2's to feed a dozen dogs I dried out wholemeal bread to use as kibble, and as some are calling it a filler, which it is not, the dogs were all performing so so but all still maidens. I steered away from the new because I was locked in the past, then I researched and found in XP3020 everything I had given my racing dogs in the past in this format. I changed to XP and in three weeks the litter could not stop winning races.

Long winded, but there you go.