Do You Think Barf (raw) Feeding Is Expensive?
I’m just curious I feed a very well balanced BARF diet to my two Jack Russell’s which includes a variety of meat and vegetables, vitamins etc and it is much cheaper then buying something like Innova or California Natural every month.
I pre-make all my food except for the vitamins and then freeze it so in my batch I would have.
Kangaroo mince,
Kangaroo thighs chopped
Kangaroo steaks chopped
Barramundi chopped
Spinach, Kale, Watercress, Broccoli, Carrot, Sweet Potato chopped and/or grated
Vets Complete Natural Puppy Mix (soaked for 12-24 hours before hand or until I get the fermentation smell) which is added daily NOT frozen
A VitaPet supplement supplement powder added to the food this IS frozen.
A small taurine supplement added to the food this IS frozen
A teaspoon of cold pressed olive oil per two bags
and a teaspoon of Vital Greens Supplement (http://www.vitalgreens.com/products/vita… with their food.
Also they’ve both been tested for soy allergies and since the boy doesn’t have it and enjoys tofu he receives a small amount every few days.
Also on particularly hot days I mix some fresh orange juice with their water to encourage them to drink.
They have the frozen fruit and vegetable rissoles on hand.
They get strawberries, blueberries, mulberries or bilberries when we go for walks.
They do get chicken necks and/or chicken wings as well but this is not a regular thing ( twice a week ) and they also have kangaroo tails to chew once again not a regular thing. I do brush their teeth regularly though.
Into their rissoles it can be any combination of carrot, celery, cucumber, orange, beetroot, apple (no core or seed), spinach or kiwi fruit.
My cat gets the same diet minus the fruit and vegetables and grains except for a small amount of sweet potato grated.
She gets similar vitamins/mineral/protein supplements
and unlike the dogs has a chicken neck or wing daily.
Do you think that would be more expensive?
Yes or no?
Just curious, thanks.
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Good grief you make this sound far more complicated than it should be !
(I would knock off the biscuit though) 
Nice that you can get fresh Kangaroo though !
I have fed a raw natural diet for over 13 years now and doubt I would ever go back to feeding commercial stuff, but when i first started I would go to so much effort to do this. Liquidising a variety of veggies, adding several vitamins and supplements, etc. a la Billinghurst/Schultz
Since then I have wised up more, especially after closely observing wild dogs in the wild, and other wild carnivores and realise dogs are indeed carnivores and not omnivores, although they can and will eat veggies, wild herbs and grasses, dirt, fruit and even scavenge cooked food and rubbish from tips if their natural prey is not available and they are hungry enough, but now I work on the Aussie vet, Tom Lonsdale theory and try to feed a “prey model” diet and find this much easier, less stressful and far cheaper than the original way I prepared food, and certainly a lot cheaper than attempting to feed a commercial “pseudo balanced” diet.
In case you have not looked at the Lonsdale method or still think dogs are indeed omnivores, check out the two links below.
#Oh, yes and I am sure that, as usual, the still “blinded by false information from commercialists brigade ” will prefer to just score this post down rather than actually doing a bit of educational research and reading
When you go to all this effort it is why most people stop feeding a raw diet, and do lose the benefits that brings, but if you are comfortable with this, good on yer ! It’s still far better than kibble
ps, the only time it takes me is how long it takes to take a bag of frozen food out the freezer and when thawed throw it into my dog’s bowls. I get my supplies delivered in bulk to the door. You do need extra separate freezer space though.
It depends on what brands of food you buy and how much you feed, etc. I use Blue Buffalo dry food, and while it is all natural and very high quality, it’s at a much better price than Innova or anything like that. For most people however, the problem isn’t money it’s time. I know I personally would rather be spending that time playing with my dogs instead of cooking for them.
Edit: I totally respect you for doing that for your dogs, I just personally don’t have that kind of time, so any free time I do have is given to them in the form of exercise and attention, I have a guilt complex, lol.
Wow, all that made me dizzy!
If I fed my Stafford like that it would cost me a fortune.
What dog eats Barramundi? I feed Rocco whole sardines and pilchards from the servo!!!
I feed a very simple diet, no fancy recipies and nothing time consuming.
It looks as though so much thought goes into their meals but I think you could drop half of those ingredients and still have very healthy dogs, whilst saving yourself even more money.
Well, I wouldn’t be interested in feeding the kind of diet you’re preparing…that probably would be a little on the expensive side for me. And way too much work for what would get me nothing but an annoyed look from my dog who now has to weed through the veggies to get what she really wants.
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I feed prey model raw diet. I get a huge portion of my food for free, just from people cleaning out their freezers. I don’t feed vegetables. Everything my dog eats was mobile at one time…lol
I plan to buy some chicks this summer and raise them to butcher and freeze whole – that will be a few nice cheap complete meals.
Add: the only supplements I use are salmon oil and glucosamine (which I know probably isn’t necessary, but after having dogs with joint problems it just makes me feel better)