Raw Meat Based Diets

[Sadie 55]

In my research i found youtube to be a great help when it came to feed and create my own version of raw/barf. I liked this informative video -

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi0D1xb-LiE

[Cupid Stunt 18]

Shows what can be done with little effort

[Mac 30]

Spot on

[Dunkanon 380]

Interesting post that mate, do u add any biscuit to the prepared mix or feed as is? and what are the dogs stools like? I find my lurchers get a bit loose on the raw meat.

[Sadie 55]

Interesting post that mate, do u add any biscuit to the prepared mix or feed as is? and what are the dogs stools like? I find my lurchers get a bit loose on the raw meat.

 

I feed basically similar to the video clip and add a few other suppliments a week. Stools are solid and not very often, as alot of the goodness is taken out of the feed. On that dry stuff they shat like hippos!

[ivebeen 176]

Interesting post that mate, do u add any biscuit to the prepared mix or feed as is? and what are the dogs stools like? I find my lurchers get a bit loose on the raw meat.

 

If there stool is loose or runny, adding more bone/egg shell/shrimp shell will help to harden it up. In my experiance

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Didnt get chance to watch this video the other day,

 

Ive started doing something very similar,

 

I will post below the notes i made, just to highlight how easy it can be and how it doesnt have to cost the earth...

 

2 Weeks of Raw...

 

200g Celery, 100g Spinach Leaves 5 Carrots, 2 Apples - £2.00 (Veg sources will vary from batch to batch)

 

12 x Bags Butchers Scraps @ 35p - £4.20 (these are basically 400g bags of scraps from the butchers, mainly steak off cuts, beef mince offal, chicken breasts, lamb pieces etc)

 

Half a Bag of Tesco Brown Rice @ £1.20 – 60p

 

800g Pack of Green Tripe – 80p

 

4 x Eggs – 40p

 

= £8.00

 

My dog will have one of these each evening costing £23 per month, he also gets a rack of lamb ribs every morning costing 15p each, so about £4 per month.

 

 

Chop and Blend Veg to a Puree

Cook Rice and cool with cold water

Empty contents of 12 bags into a bowl and separate Offal from meat and fat

 

Add 300g of Meat and Fat mixture into a bag, add a ladel of rice (approx 100g) and a ladel of the veg puree.

 

In 4 of the bags substitute 100g of meat and fat for 100g offal (200g meat and fat, 100g offal) and on 4 of the days substitute 100g of meat and fat for 100g of tripe.

 

There should be 6 remaining bags of just the standard mix, meat, fat, veg and rice. On 2 of the days add cod liver oil and on the remaining day add a couple of eggs, to look something like this over 7 days…

 

Mon - Meat, Fat, Veg, Rice, Offal

Tue - Meat, Fat, Veg, Rice, Tripe

Wed - Meat, Fat, Veg, Rice, Cod Liver Oil

Thurs - Meat, Fat, Veg, Rice, Offal

Fri - Meat, Fat, Veg, Rice, Tripe

Sat - Meat, Fat, Veg, Rice, Cod Liver Oil

Sun - Meat, Fat, Veg, Rice, 2 x Eggs

 

The whole job of separating meat and offal, blitzing veg and cooking rice and then bagging the whole lot up took me and the missus about an hour and a half, this is for 2 weeks worth of food, so 3 hours a month.

 

On the days when I add cod liver oil I will also add 2 teaspoons of kelp seaweed powder or keepers mix.

 

I dont cook the veg, so as to preserve all nutrients, i just puree it in a blender.

 

Also the meat wont always be the butchers scraps, some months horse meat with fat added, some months beef or chicken mince etc.

 

If this helps one person then happy days

 

Only been feeding this for a few days, used to feed raw when he was a pup but was worried he was gonna be lacking something so went to dry. Results will speak for themselves after 6 months or more on dry feed.

 

Gaz

Edited August 7, 2011 by gareth_daniel

[Run_Rabbit85 8]

cracking video as i have just started feeding raw just need to get hold of a mincer now this post should give everyone whos just started feeding raw a good idea of what to use and how to prepare it thanks alot mate mick

[bunnys 1,228]

No need to make things diff.mincer not needed chewing what the back teeth are for fruit can be cut in smaller pieces or like mine throw the odd apple pear dogs will soon learn how to cope with there flesh and bonebrown bread rice can both be fed has it comes table scraps variety has it comes will do fine .atb bunnys