What is the best dog food for german sherperd dog

what brand?

to have healthy skin ?

to avoid hip problem?

You have received a lot of pretty good food recommendations. I feed mine Canidae and they are both doing well on it.

When looking at dog foods, read the ingredients. You want a food that has more meat protein sources in it than grain sources and no more than two grains in the first five. Dog food companies often try to trick us by "splitting" grains...if the ingredients are listed as chicken, ground corn, corn gluten then both the corn and corn gluten are corn...just in two different forms...and there is FAR more corn than chicken in that food. Also, no corn in the first five ingredients (which usually means no corn at all as most foods that include corn in the ingredients list put it pretty high on the list). Look for a specified meat meal (chicken meal, lamb meal, etc) as the first or second ingredient (if second, then the first should be a specified meat). The ingredients are listed according to volume before processing...since meats are mostly water putting "chicken" as the first ingredient looks good to most consumers. However, the majority of that chicken is water, which is removed during processing, which means that there is actually less chicken in the food than whatever the second ingredient is. Meat meals are already dehydrated before processing, so if a meat meal is listed before another ingredient you KNOW that there is more of that meat meal than the next ingredient down the list. Also avoid any food that lists salt or sugar (including dextrose, fructose, and pretty much any kind of syrup) ANYWHERE on the ingredients list! These are only added to make dogs like the food more and are not healthy (and are usually covering the taste of sub-standard ingredients).