Questions About Feeding Raw…?
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My best friend has just recently started feeding her dogs raw. It’s mostly chicken, including the bones, and she knows that it’s good to feed a fish to each dog once a week or so, but we were wondering what, if anything, else she needed to feed them? Are there any specific parts of the chicken that you’d recommend? Or a certain kind of fish? She has a 35 pound female Lab/Chow mix, a 55 pound female American Pit Bull Terrier, a 25 pound male APBT puppy, and 2 10 pound female APBT puppies, do you know how much, or around about how much, she should be feeding her dogs for their weight? Also, if you feed raw, could you please tell me exactly what you feed your dog each day? Any suggestions would be very helpful! Thanks! : )
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as she should know once in a will she has to feed organ how long has she had her dog on raw if it has bot been that long feeding fish may upset the dogs stomach she can feed a whole egg when ever she want to help with a the coat also her is a wed sitehttp://www.rawfeddogs.net/Recipe/List
it gives more food she can feed
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the chance of Salmonella is low a dog would have to eat 70-80 eggs A DAY to get poisoning!!!
Despite their growing popularity, raw food diets for your dog may actually pose a threat to your dog’s health. According to a study published in the November/December 2003 issue of the Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association, raw foods can be a source of the potentially deadly Salmonella infection.http://lnk.nu/dogtime.com/vee.html
AmericanPitBullTerrierMommie, I wish I had a a american pit bull terrier.
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we feed our dogs raw ( a pitbull and a bulldog and now a stray pitbull that has puppies coming soon but she gets fed canned food because of the vitamins) anyways – we have bought anything from whole chickens to pheasant (since its hunting season) sometimes we get them hamburger a lb each. Its good to feed eggs raw once and a while as well i know there are certain types of fish not to feed them but im not sure i dont feed mine fish. sometimes i will cook my dogs some rice as well. Chickens are good to feed them because there bones are softer. so for our 50 lb pitbull we feed him daily, 3 legs, some type of organ from a chicken , or we feed him a whole pheasant (fresh with all organs) 1 c cooked rice, 1 c peas, 1 lb hamburger raw. he gets a meal in the morning and in the evening. same wth the bulldog. it can get expensive but check with your local butcher and if your a hunter its a plus.
The best and most nutritional raw diet is the Prey Model Raw Diet. It does just as the name implies, it models the prey animals a wild canine would eat.
80-90% meat and bones, and 10-20% organ meat.
Nothing else added, except for fish and raw eggs.
Chicken is very bony, and a diet of only chicken is going to have incorrect amounts of calcium. In the winter, when it is hunting season, I can buy ten lb rolls of game meat trimmings for only 1$/lb. During the summer, I have to buy hamburger meat, which is about 1.50$/lb and a bit more expensive then I like to spend. I feed them this meat a couple days a week just to even things out nutritionally, and I throw in any other cheap meat cuts as I find them.
Avoid salmon and any other saltwater fish from the same region as atlantic salmon, as they can cause salmon poisoning. I tend to stick to freshwater fish such as trout and bass, or tropical salt water. Wild Salmon Oil, however, is great to add to their food. My boy doesn’t really like fish, I have to mash it up with a mallet for him to eat it, and that is just gross. So I have a couple needles and syringes, and a couple days a week I usually just inject some salmon oil right into his chicken or meal for the night. Easier to feed then the whole fish.
Here is a website I’ve created, and not only does it include a week feeding chart, but a great links page as wellhttp://diaryofarawfeeder.angelfire.com
70-80% muscle meat (any part of the chicken, chicken necks, backs, thighs, whatever). As far as fish go, I use fish oil (salmon) and feed canned salmon or mackeral once or twice a week. As she should know, you feed 2-3% of an adult dogs ideal weight (not what they weigh now but what you want them to weigh) and puppies should eat 5-10% of their bodyweight depending on several factors. My pup is a bit less than 30 pounds and eats nearly 2 pounds of food a day, in contrast, an adult, 90lbs male GSD eats about 3 pounds. Pups eat a lot more than adults the same size because they need energy to grow!
Here’s an example of daily rations for my pup:
Morning: 1 pound of chicken necks/backs/thighs.
Noon: 5 ounces of canned mackeral
Night: 4 ounces of chicken necks, 4 ounces of chicken liver
Or perhaps:
Morning: 1 pound pork necks, 1 egg
Noon: 6 ounces chicken wings
Night: 6 ounces cow kidney
The key to how much to feed is easy, if your dog is fat, feed less, if it’s too skinny, feed more. But it’s always healthiest to have a lean well muscled dog. A skinny dog is a healthy longer living dog.
-edit- Alias, the spine of a bird is extremely soft, chicken necks and backs are great food and cheap. ALL predators consume birds whole, no part is left uneaten because the entire bird is edible. A human child could chew and eat a chicken’s neck bone with no problems (besides salmonella, I simply mean the neck bone is soft and easily chewed and eaten).
Legs, thighs and breast are the best parts of the chicken. Wings, necks and backs are very bony and oddly shaped, and are more likely to cause obstruction or pierce the stomach. They can still be fed, but probably best only if you trust your dog to fully chew its meal rather than gobble it.
You can feed anything really, as long as you’re feeding a good variety. A diet of chicken with occasional fish is not balanced; throw in some pork, lamb, turkey, beef, even venison and rabbit if you can find it… basically anything goes. And you’ll also want to include a good bit of organ meat — liver, tripe (not the white stuff you’d find at the grocery, but GREEN tripe — you might have to order it), kidney, and heart (which is arguably a muscle meat but if you can get it then do so). Vary the organ meat by source as well — for instance, feed more than just beef liver, feed also chicken liver and whatever other kind of liver you can find too. Organ meat should make up a good 10% of the diet (some even say a bit more than that). But add in organ meat gradually, and don’t overdo any bit of organ in one meal. For instance, an entire beef liver for one dog in one sitting is probably too much.http://www.boxerworld.com/forums/raw-fee…