Chicken-free dog food for Dachshunds

A chicken intolerance in a multi-dog household where everyone else eats chicken-based food — that's a genuinely tricky situation, and it's one of the more common reasons sensitive stomach issues in one dog keep dragging on despite dietary changes. Sensitive stomach problems usually come down to a few things: food intolerance, ingredient sensitivity, or a gut that just needs a simpler diet — and working out which one applies is how you find the right food. To give you a useful recommendation, can you tell me a bit more? What breed and age is the dog with the intolerance, what symptoms are you seeing — loose stools, vomiting, gas, or something else — and what have you already tried?

That's a clear picture — confirmed chicken intolerance with GI symptoms, a salmon trial that didn't fully resolve things, and a practical management problem with three other dogs in the mix. A couple of things stand out here. Salmon foods often still contain chicken fat or chicken meal as secondary ingredients, which could explain why the improvement wasn't complete. The cross-contamination risk from the other dogs is also real — even if she's eating separately, bowls getting mixed up or her sneaking a mouthful of theirs will keep triggering symptoms. Can you tell me how you're currently feeding them — all at the same time, same room, or do you have a way to separate her completely at mealtimes?

That makes complete sense, and the simple ingredient list is exactly the right instinct — when a dog's gut is in a reactive state, the fewer novel proteins and additives the better. Given confirmed chicken intolerance, a previous salmon food that didn't fully clear things (likely due to hidden chicken derivatives), and the practical need for something visually distinct and simple, I'd recommend Forthglade Complete Meal Grain Free Lamb with Brown Rice & Vegetables — the wet food tray format specifically, not a dry kibble. Here's why it fits your situation well: lamb is a genuinely novel protein for most dogs who've been on chicken-based diets, the ingredient list is short and transparent with no chicken or chicken derivatives, and wet trays look and smell completely different from the dry kibble your other three eat — so there's no ambiguity about which food is hers. The wet format is also easier on a sensitive gut than dense dry kibble while things settle. Forthglade is widely available on Amazon UK and sits in a sensible price bracket for daily feeding. For the cross-contamination problem, the visual difference of wet trays versus dry kibble genuinely helps, and feeding her slightly earlier and collecting the tray once she's done removes the opportunity for the others to finish theirs and move onto hers.

With a straightforward ingredient sensitivity like confirmed chicken intolerance, if you've removed the trigger cleanly — meaning no accidental chicken exposure from the other dogs' food — you'd typically expect stools to firm up within five to ten days, and gas to reduce within a similar window. The key word there is cleanly. If she's still occasionally accessing the others' chicken kibble, you'll get partial improvement but not full resolution, and it can be hard to tell whether the food isn't working or whether the exposure is continuing. For the first two weeks especially, it's worth being strict about the separation. If you're three weeks in with proper separation and still seeing regular soft stools, that would suggest there may be a secondary sensitivity worth looking into — at that point a vet conversation about a full elimination diet trial would be the next step. But most dogs with a single identified protein intolerance respond well within a fortnight when the source is removed properly.

Good plan. Strict separation for the first couple of weeks is the thing most likely to determine whether it works — the food itself is a solid fit for her, but it won't show its best results if there's still chicken getting in. If she does well on it, you can consider whether to stick with wet long-term or transition her onto a dry lamb-based food once her gut is settled, depending on what suits your routine. Hope she turns the corner quickly.