About Raw Feeding Vs Cooked Meat?
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Oct 25th, 2009 |
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Hi i had asked this q a few hrs agohttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;…
about why is raw feeding better than cooked meat for dogs. The answers were because raw has all the unaltered enzymes, vitamins, etc.
What if you cooked meat, and gave a good supplement for all their needs though? (lol i am afraid to feed raw honestly)
Also, are the commercial raw foods just like kibble? like are some are very bad quality?
i don’t think i could ever learn how to give all the raw food other people do..i mean one lady i read on another group gives her dog quail eggs i mean how do you know the right amounts to feed but so i’d want the already prepared frozen stuff. anyway thank you again.
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Technically, you could feed cooked and add supplements. The thing is, why would you want to? That would be like you eating McDonald’s and taking a vitamin to make up for it. It’s better for them to get all their nutrients in their whole, unaltered, natural form: raw food. If you must, try cooking the meat just a tiny bit at a low boil- don’t let the meat exceed 110 degrees, and you’ll reduce the amount of damage done to the nutrients. This might help you ease into raw feeding, perhaps slowly cook the meat less and less each time, until you are able to be comfortable feeding it raw.
Commercial raw foods are better than dry kibble, however, making your own is the best way to go.
There are no “amounts” to feed your dog. There are general guidelines, but each meal does not have to be perfect. Obviously, whole meat should be the largest percentage (raw meaty bones if you’re feeding raw, or cooked meat and bone meal powder if you prefer). Organ meats (livers, gizzards, hearts, etc.) should be a small percentage of the weekly diet. Vegetables should be fed not at all, or else less than 5% of the total meal- just a smidge, in other words. Eggs can be fed as part of the meat requirement.
Here is what my mom feeds her dogs (she’s afraid of raw meaty bone diets too) :
-Ground meat (chicken, turkey, or beef, lightly cooked)
-Yogurt or cottage cheese (1 small container)
-Chicken eggs (1 whole, lightly boiled)
-Carrots (1-2 baby size)
-Peas (1 tbsp)
-Blueberries (1tbsp)
-Cranberries (1tbsp)
-Pumpkin (3 tbsp)
-Fish oil (1 tsp)
-Calcium & bone meal powder (1 tbsp)
-Multivitamin powder for dogs (1 tbsp)
Basically, she picks 1 meat, 1 or 2 veggies, yogurt OR cottage cheese, and the three supplements, mixes them up like a meat loaf, and serves it. For example: Chicken, egg, carrots, cranberries, cottage cheese, supplements. That’s a meal. Next time, maybe she’ll do beef, peas, pumpkin, yogurt, and supplements. You can vary it each meal or each day, or use the exact same recipe all the time (or mix all the meats together and use them all the time). It’s your choice, that’s the beauty of making your own.
Raw is definitely preferable, but even lightly cooked real foods are superior to dry kibble. Don’t fuss too much over the ingredients, just so long as there’s variety, it’ll balance out. Meat is the #1 ingredient. Use about 2% of your dog’s body weight as the amount of food to feed each day. And absolutely NO grains! No wheat, flour, oatmeal, rice, corn, etc. It’s totally unnecessary!
there is raw food diets that are already prepared on the market now.
Raw meat is better for them!!!And cheaper to buy.
Raw food is better. It is just like they get it in the wild (Raw). No cooking in the wild so their food should be raw.
Hey! I feed one of my girls Nature’s Variety Raw- and she is doing VERY well on it! We went this route because of necessity- she is allergic to all of the starches- potato, rice, oatmeal, etc. She does FANTASTIC on this! I love the NV raw, because it looks just like hamburger patty, and all we do is thaw it out and give it to her. As for true BARF…uh, NOPE! couldn’t do it!
I think the main reason most folks feed it raw, is the added benefit of the bones- the ground calcium is good for their teeth.
I have no problem with cooked food, as the kibble is also cooked! As long as you supplemented with some good stuff. You could toss some raw sardines straight from the can, kelp, green tripe, flaxseed, etc. There is book I got (can’t remember the name of it)- got it a health food store, and it had diets you could cook for your dog, and included all the additives, etc. to make it healthy- bought it when we thought we were going to have to do a special diet for one of our boys- but it was great. You might also find one on Amazon.com.
id perfer raw bc what did dogs eat in the wild the cant cook their meat
Here is some really good links that were given to me.
I learnt heaps from them. Read them all thouroughly. Write notes. Then make a sample menu for yourself.http://www.eastwooddanes.com/http://www.rawfed.com/myths/http://www.rawlearning.com/
Good luck
Once you learn it is easy.
it seems like if they ate raw meat it would be to easy to give them worms or something. i was always told raw meat was a big no-no.
but i guess not.
As long as you are supplementing it would be fine to feed cooked meet, but boil it instead of frying it, other wise it is too greasy. btw it is perfectly safe to feed dogs raw meat if you know how to make a complete diet for them. their digestive systems are way different then ours. How do you suppose dogs ate there food before people?? Made a fire and cooked it?? probably not!!
You can find good resources about feeding raw diets and how to supplement properly.