Is this amount of shit normal???

[Fisharefriendsnotmincepies]

I'm crate training for the first time, a ten week old springer with us a week. I have never ever seen so much shit in my life!

He is really really good during the day, training going great. He is on 4 meals of eukanuba puppy, normally 6/10/2 and 5pm. He poohs at least 6/7 times a day. I was up and 2 and 6 this morning to let him out. Normal?

That's not particularly unusual for a puppy but the food may be a contributing factor - Eukanuba contains lots of cheap grains/fillers which will be adding bulk without any nutritional benefit, producing big soft poos!

Switching to a better quality diet may well reduce the volume and/or frequency.

Can you recommend? It was very runny the first few days but has gotten more solid in last few days.. Its expensive enough

Cost has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of dog food, some of the most expensive premium foods (Royal Canin, Science Plan etc) are full of rubbish, it's all in the marketing.

Fish4Dogs is one I'd always recommend, second only to a raw diet, but things like Arden Grange, Wainwrights and similar are okay. Skinners duck/salmon/turkey and rice is the best budget option that I know of. :)

Thanks toboldly, will look into it. Eukanuba is what the breeder was feeding him, so I thought it best to continue

Oh for sure I would continue to feed whatever he was weaned on for a bit, the change of home is enough stress for a pup without adding a change of feed in as well, but if he's firming up now and settled in you could try gradually switching.

IMO the things to look for in a feed are an absence of grains, wheat especially but also avoiding maize, barley and, if at all possible, rice, though this tends to be the least likely of them all to cause reactions. A named meat source (not just derivatives or meat meal) should appear high on the list. There should be no colours, E-numbers, 'EC permitted additives/preservatives', sugar or salt.