Raw feeding

[smokey 0]

OK , I will most probaly get shot down as this has most probably been discussed...but I cant find it......looking to start feeding me two dogs raw meat from Landywoods , but need some advice on the best way to approach this.

I dont have much time at night boiling veg ,liquadising etc....notice on Landywoods you can get meat +veg mix,chicken and veg mix etc.....would using one of those mixes give the dog the daily nutrition it needs ? or would you still need to add mixer or another supplement with it......at the moment I feed one dog just Burns dry complete and the other one has biscuit with a tin of dog food.........

Also would feeding chicken and veg one day and lamb and veg the next would that then balance the diet up???

 

Cheers

Smokey

[DEKAW 85]

Before you start to spend your money on fancy products, Try your local butchers or better still wholesale butchers to see what he does with his left overs(chicken carcass, meaty bones etc...) The lad i get mine off puts them through a mincer and bags them for me. I have found this to be the more favourable and less expensive way of feeding my dogs. Mine also get veg and whole grain brown rice now and again. I supplement there diet with SA37 and cod liver oil. What ever bunnies they catch they are fed those, gutted with there jackets off whole.

[annika 0]

Hi Smokey,

 

I've also had a look for "feeding threads". I've got a 2 1/2 year old short legged Jack Russell. I'm not working him (unfortunately, but will hopefully do some ratting soon) but he does get a lot of excercise off the lead and is good at killing squirrells .

 

I normally feed him on raw chicken wings / beef / lamb, rice, vegetables and the odd table scraps and omega 3 and plaqueoff (wicked stuff to keep teeth clean).

 

I boil a batch of rice and mixed, frozen vegetables, mix them together and stick it in the fridge (once it's cold) to use over a few days. When it's feeding time I get the meat cleaver out, chop up his meat in smaller chunks, otherwise he takes the meat out of the bowl and eats it on the stair carpet, little sod , mix it with everything else and if he's lucky stick some gravy on. I don't do any blending, he crunches the bones and scoffs the veg and rice anyway, feeding time is one of the highlights of his day.

 

He's been on this for over a year, loves it and seems to be doing well, good teeth and coat and pretty well muscled, but would appreciate comments and advice if there's any additional stuff that would be good for him.

 

Oh, and by the way, if I am being very lazy and feed him on pedigree pal for a few days he turns in to the devil's dog. What do they put in that stuff?

 

Annika

[dogman89 0]

i work in a butchers and we are only to happy to get rid of bones and scrap meat. thats all i feed my dogs is meat. i personnaly dont add anything like veg or rice and ive been doin this for a year now and the dog is all the better for it.

 

the way i look at it is that a dog doesnt eat boiled veg and rice in the wild or gravy or cooked meat so why should it eat it just because just because its in a cage or in a house. this is my opinion, others will think differently

[littlefish 586]

My dogs are small Jack Russells. I often feed them on chicken wings - one chicken wing would be quite a substantial feed for each of my dogs but i notice if i don't feed them on veg as well they seem to have difficult passing dung after a few days. I buy bags of frozen veg in Iceland where it costs a pound for quite a big bag. I let it thaw and mix it with whatever meaty stuff they are having. They get vegetables of some sort most days - garden peas, brussell sprouts, carrotts, tomatoes or cabbage, usually i just lift out a bit extra of whatever veg i am going to cook for myself. Does anyone else feed frozen veg?

[annika 0]

My dogs are small Jack Russells. I often feed them on chicken wings - one chicken wing would be quite a substantial feed for each of my dogs but i notice if i don't feed them on veg as well they seem to have difficult passing dung after a few days.

 

Have the same problem with mine when he eats just wings, when the poo comes out it's more like compacted dust, probably because there is quite a high bone to meat ratio in chicken wings. My Jack is a greedy little bugger, he normally has about 3-4 wings plus veg or a leg quarter plus veg a day, normally use frozen veg too but I boil it first, probably creating extra work for myself there .

[Bevwallis 7]

Hi there

 

We have fed raw for some time now- with no supplements or veg/rice/pasta etc.

If you vary the diet and try and stick to more natural prey items like birds,rabbits,lamb etc you shoudnt go wrong.

What i have found useful if they get bunged up is one day meaty bones,the next meat only(mince,offal etc)

This usually keeps the dogs "going" ok

Be sparing with richer meat - mine do particually well on rabbit and hare which they eat whole

I have half a freezer of venison which i am about to start introducing but really dogs can eat most things -it doesnt need to be complicated- so long as fed raw and you steer clear of large weightbearing bones- i wouldnt give any beef bones to smaller dogs either

 

I should go with trial and error but if you have any problems feel free to pm me if you like