Changing over to raw

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I have a few questions for all you 'raw' experts out there.
I would like to incorporate some raw meat into my dogs diet. They currently have a relatively good quality kibble. Some days they also have pilchards and also raw carrot and broccoli.
I understand you can't mix kibble with raw because of the digestion speeds but I'm wondering if I could change one meal a day over to raw? I was thinking of using free flow frozen minced chicken to start with until I get my confidence does anyone have any experience of using this brand.
It feels like a big step to take but want to do right by my dogs.

Thanks
 
There's a helpful sticky at the top of the AAD forum :)

I used a similar brand to Freeflow, using their washed tripe as a Kong stuffing but eventually found a cheaper and better quality alternative (whole minced chicken, bone in, and green tripe) from a man who supplies greyhound trainers (an excellent place to source raw!!!) and I now get lamb hearts and chicken carcasses from him too.
I used to feed dry kibble as a training aid but have pretty much dropped kibble altogether now.

You could also use a turkey leg/some chicken legs instead of a bowl of kibble so they get bone in too.

Supermarket bargain bins (Iceland, Tesco etc) are a good place to start, I used to pick up liver and kidney in there cheap as chips too.
 
Thank you
I'm pretty much convinced it will be better. I have read the sticky at the top, I think its the actual process of changing them over which I'm finding daunting.
Will start them off on the Freeflow mince and then increase as I get braver :-)
 
You need chicken that has come from vaccinated chickens against salmonella. The amout of campylobactor poisioning we've seen recently from pets fed raw diet is fairly alarming.
 
Also if that is in response to my post, the chickens I use are human grade and hand cut, not machine cut (a lot still have the necks attached). Yes, some of them get a bit ripe by the time I get round to feeding them, but hey :p
 
As one is only 13 months and was an underweight rescue they are currently getting 3 meals a day. one a 7.30am one at 1pm and another at 8pm. Was thinking of changing the 1pm over to raw first.
 
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