Make My Own Raw Dog Food

In place of bone you can use dried ground eggshells.

Make my own raw dog food.

If you are like most dog owners you are nervous to make the first raw meal for your pup. This is why we created this guide of healthy raw food recipes that you can make at home for your dog. Other recipes will also include seeds nuts grains fresh vegetables fresh fruits. Your dog should be getting about 10 percent of his diet from bone.

Ingredients 2 1 2 pounds ground beef 4 ounces chicken livers 1 carrot chopped 1 small apple cored 1 2 cup baby spinach 2 whole eggs including shell 1 2 cup plain yogurt 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed 1 tablespoon olive oil. And here is a good list of calcium rich foods your dog may like. Animal essentials seaweed calcium provides additional minerals as well. You can use any form of plain calcium including eggshells ground to powder in a clean coffee grinder 1 2 teaspoon eggshell powder provides about 1 000 mg calcium.

The remaining 60 80 of your raw food eating dog s daily requirement should consist of raw meat and bones backs necks carcasses. Firstly it s important to remember that making the switch to a raw food diet can be a great thing. In general when you make a recipe to cook for your dog you can put in ingredients in the following proportions. Roughly 12oz 1 1 2 cups of meat including raw meaty bones and 4oz 1 2 cup of prepared vegetable fruit mixture approx 2tsp of fish oil ie cod liver oil or salmon oil or flax seed oil or an omega 3 supplement and a vitamin mineral supplement.

Alpha linolenic acid an omega 3 fat found in flaxseeds and hempseeds linoleic acid an omega 6 fat found in things like hempseeds and sunflower seeds arachidonic acid an omega 6 fat found in meat poultry and eggs docosahexaenoic acid an omega 3 fat found in oily fish like sardines. To make up 1lb approx 2 cups of raw dog food you ll need. Ingredients in raw dog food recipes most commonly include meat of different type muscle and organs and eggs. Pour 1 2 teaspoon in for every pound of meat you feed your dog.

When feeding your dog bones you can use what s known as raw meaty bones or bones that still have some meat on them.