Any other RAW feeders?

[allformyk9s]

Fairly new to RAW for my dogs ... they've been on it for about 2 wks now. Their doing good on chicken quarters & soon I'll be giving them pork shoulder to try. Found a House of Meat Supermarket near me .. chicken quarters for $0.65/lb. Woot!

I know I can give sardines in water .. but how often? Once a week right? And do yall give a fish oil cap every day?


Thanks!

 

[TMcrazy]

I feed salmon, makeral or smelt mixed in with the chicken all fall and most of the winter every other day or so. I don't feed raw to just pet dogs though and their requirements are REALLY high here year round for calories and fats and the like. If we were an inactive bunch I would only need to go through approx 12lbs a day but we are closer to 25 lbs.
I'm really unsure of the suggested guidelines for sardines but I did want to ask if you were including organ meats to the chicken quarter meals at all?

 

[allformyk9s]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, the chicken quarters have some organ meat in them & Im adding gizzards to it, assuming thats considered organ. Going to be ordering some liver soon & seeing what they think.

 

[Duetsche_Doggen]

I used to feed raw but had to stop, so now I feed TOTW kibble. I fed leg quarters, backs, feet, gizzards, hearts, tripe ( when I could find it), beef, eggs, yogurt. Thor was picky when it came to fish, so I seldom fed it.

 

[allformyk9s]

When we had to stop raw a couple months ago I put my guys on TOTW, good food.

Tripe is beef stomach right? And from my understanding the white ones at the grocery are no good right? Those are bleached or something... ?

 

[Duetsche_Doggen]

That's what I heard too, but I got the green tripe from a speciality dog food store. Everything else I got from the butcher shop as it was MUCH cheaper.

 

[BlackShadowCaneCorso]

When we had to stop raw a couple months ago I put my guys on TOTW, good food.

Tripe is beef stomach right? And from my understanding the white ones at the grocery are no good right? Those are bleached or something... ?

Yes grocery store is typically bleached so the good stuff isn't in it any more We are a partly raw family

 

[Duetsche_Doggen]

I thought about doing that too, but was told that wasn't good for the digestion. I'm still considering it though.

 

[allformyk9s]

Thanks Mary!!


Ive heard that if you are going to do half kibble/half raw you need to pick one meal kibble the other raw & feed 12 hrs apart as they digestive differently.

 

[Oak Hill Farm]

I believe Mary feeds some of her dogs a 100% raw diet and other dogs 100% kibble.

One thing you have to feed is liver. It is a major source of nutrients. Nothing can really replace that in a raw diet. Gizzards should be considered meat not an organ, the same goes for heart. Organs would be liver, "sweet breads", kidney, brain.

you can feed fish oil daily in the meal, or feed an oily fish meal weekly. I would not recommend canned sardines weekly, Maybe only occasionally, they are not as good for the dog.

 

[allformyk9s]

Thanks for your reply.

How often & how much should I be feeding liver?

I'll do the fish oil daily ...

 

[TMcrazy]

During hard training and lots of running time I mix my raw and kibble together but soak the kibble first in cold water. As for the different rates of digestion for kibble and raw, every thing that gets eaten digests at different rates if you really think about it. When is the last time you questioned anything you have eaten and worried if it was going to digest at the exact same time?
I don't normally suggest people feed both types at the same time but it can be done with no ill effects, however that being said, the kibble we feed with raw is designed for it (sled dog food)

 

[angelbears]

Organ meat should be 10% of their diet. Don't worry about every meal having the perfect balance but balance over time. I like to feed organs with their bony meal. Helps to keep them from getting the runs.

As for bones you want to stay away from weight baring bones. Our guys get a lot of pork roasts, shoulder, butt, ect. We always carve the meat off the bone and use the bone for beans for us.

Watch sodium content. As for fish, I have found, in the local seafood department in the grocery store, smelt, anchovy and mackerel, the little fingerlings for less than a dollar a pound. I would feed these instead of the canned fish.

Egg(shell and all) is considered the perfect protein and should be incorporated into their diets.

 

[allformyk9s]

Thank you both for your replies, very informative!!

 

[LadyDogLover]

This week my furkids have dined on chicken leg quarters, pork tenderloin, a whole turkey, and a whole salmon. I
originally purchased the tenderloin for us but I didn't realize it was so big...11 pounds. I marinated a portion and stuffed another portion...was going to grill the last part but I got kind of lazy and am not a BIG fan of pork tenderloin. So the
dogs lucked out when I got "lazy". They went dog crazy. I just can't say enough about the small poops; it is fantastic.

 

[BlackShadowCaneCorso]

I believe Mary feeds some of her dogs a 100% raw diet and other dogs 100% kibble.

One thing you have to feed is liver. It is a major source of nutrients. Nothing can really replace that in a raw diet. Gizzards should be considered meat not an organ, the same goes for heart. Organs would be liver, "sweet breads", kidney, brain.

you can feed fish oil daily in the meal, or feed an oily fish meal weekly. I would not recommend canned sardines weekly, Maybe only occasionally, they are not as good for the dog.

Ang is right, we have some on RAW 100% and some on kibble 100% and then you have Hemi who seems to eat whatever the h*ll she feels like damn dog!

 

[allformyk9s]

'LadyDogLover' - lucky dogs :lol:

Mary, our senior is like that too...we call him our goat b/c he will eat anything too :lol:

 

[Oak Hill Farm]

that's why you love her Mary

I feed a little liver 3-4 times a week. I add a little more to bony meals. I try not to feed too much at once due to the "cannon butt" it can cause in large quantities. As angelbears said about 10% of the diet is organ. My CAS eats a little over 2 1/2 lbs a food daily, or about 18 lbs of food a week, so roughly 2 lbs of organ meat a week. Last week I think I fed about 1 lb sweet bread over two meals and 1 lb liver in 2 meals. You can feed as many or as few as you want, depending on how your dogs handle it.

 

[Mambo]

Watch using fish oil unless you are also going to be giving Vit E

 

[allformyk9s]

Thanks Mambo!


What is 'sweet bread' ??

Introduced them to pork tonight .. they each got a half dollar size w/ their chix quarters ... they all loved it, gone in a flash!