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BARF diet for animals 2
#27893040 - 08/06/22 09:33 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I started my dog a month or so ago on a raw food diet where I have to put the ingredients together myself. I can't believe how much time I've spent researching and how much there is to learn about it.
I used to buy my previous dog who is now passed away big country raw dog food and I've learned even that food wasn't completely nutritionally balanced long term. Anyways, this dog here,

eats way better than me

It's called the Biologically Appropriate Raw Food diet also know as the BARF diet.
The picture of all the ingredients I used isn't a representation of the ratios because majority of the organs and some chicken were put in the freezer.
70% muscle meat(10% should be fish) 10% edible bone 5% liver 5% other secreting organ like kidney 7% vegetables 2% seeds 1% fruit
For these meals, I used a mix of chicken, pork, pork heart, pork tongue, atlantic mackerel and blue mussels for the muscle meat portion. Chicken neck for the edible bone. Chicken liver. Beef kidney. Pumpkin puree, hemp seeds, blueberries and a lil coconut oil. I will be adding a raw egg here and there for some different nutrients once every couple or few days. I am still missing some kelp powder which has been a tricky to find so far.
Usually people will feed their dog one meal per day, but I have a bulldog breed and she will feel like I'm starving her so I split it in half. Dogs have to be fed 2-3% of their ideal body weight everyday so my dog usually gets 1 1/2 pound of food at least per day. She's a little over 50lbs and her ideal weight is supposed to be a little higher than that. I'm testing things out to see what will make her gain some weight as I just got her a couple months ago and she was severely underweight at the time.
I've learned practically all I know from perfectlyrawsome if anyone is ever interested for their own pets or even just to check out because their meals on the site look pretty cool being so natural. They have guides for both cats/kittens and dogs/puppies and I've been using other sources for some simple noobie answers they don't have.
Sometimes I wish I just had to scoop some kibble out of a bag lol but my dog is allergic to so much that kibble is no longer an option.
What do you guys feed your pets?
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I feed horseflies my blood. They like it so much I have to beat them off.
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Re: BARF diet for animals [Re: falcon]
#27901886 - 08/13/22 11:20 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Thanks I'm looking for the now brand because it has the optimal amount of iodine per serving. Some companies don't know how much iodine is in their product.
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That's an impressive lot o' trouble you go through to feed your doggo! Our cardigan merle corgi gets the scoop of kibble you may have been pining for. 
But I have had pets in the past that required special diets. In fact, we do have a day gecko that someone received by accident in a collectible plant shipment and donated to us. My wife built a terrarium for it and we raise our own mealworms for it (which is pretty easy and way cheaper than buying them from the store... some oat bran and carrots and a weekly check-in is pretty much all you need to have more mealworms than you'll know what to do with). The gecko also gets some veggie matter from the terrarium itself, and sometimes we put a vegetable/vitamin slurry mix in there, as well as fresh fruit scraps (predominantly mango), but really, all the gecko seems to want is mealworms.
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Re: BARF diet for animals [Re: geokills]
#27904099 - 08/15/22 09:37 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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That's awesome! Lucky gecko! It must be so nice to have a terrarium and the process of building one seems really fun and interesting. I've watched a ton of YouTube videos of people doing that. Always super entertaining.
Thanks! Yeah, I've never been a fan of kibble honestly. Mostly because a previous dog I had accidentally dropped a bunch in his water and after seeing what it looks like after that, I couldn't feel good about feeding it to the dogs or cats.
It all depends on the animal though. Grain and fillers aren't necessarily bad.
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I did the BARF diet for my last three dogs. My current dog is a picky eater and would rather have kibble. I still give her some chicken necks or leg quarters, but not that often. I do cook a shit ton of chicken livers in olive oil or coconut oil and add a small amount to her food every day. I also give raw snacks like chicken feet or pigs feet.
The challenge with feeding raw is finding the ingredients. Your just not going to find much for animal organs at a store like Kroger or Publix. You have to find smaller stores in rural areas. I used to run an add in a forum for hunters and fisherman about this time every year asking for their left over meat. Many hunters will clear out their freezers to get ready for the upcoming hunting season. I got hundreds of pounds of deer meat by doing that. I would also go to the deer processors and get lots of scraps and meaty bones. FYI, a deers shoulder blade makes a fantastic chew toy that will last all day. My dog now doesn’t like or tolerate deer, she even vomited when I mixed a little in with her food. With Chronic Wasting Disease spreading throughout the deer population, I probably wouldn’t give her raw deer now even if she liked it.
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Interesting!
I've been finding nearly all the ingredients like chicken necks and animal organs at the asian grocery stores. Same with the fish. It's just the kelp powder I am missing. I always haven't bothered to get it yet lol
I just went to a butcher that has game meat. The deer cost nearly a fortune. So I only got some ground deer, but the deer hearts and kidneys were priced pretty decent so I got all the hearts and kidneys they had. Got myself some wild boar and deer sausages that were seriously gourmet.
This disease you're talking about, is it in a specific area in North America? I haven't heard about that here in Canada. I have lots of friends who hunt deer in Ontario and Nova Scotia, they never mentioned that. Is it something I'd have to worry about at deer farms? Since it was so expensive for game meat, I'm going to head up North and find some farms. It's always a lot cheaper up north and we go there often for work anyways.
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  "Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies: it’s all one. It’s one energy." -Ram Dass
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