Does anyone feed this? Or has anyone come across it?

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When I said to the kennels that I was feeding raw they recommended it so I have bought a couple of boxes? The dogs seem to like it, but Islay has got me up every 3 hours last night with diarrhoea (which might also be caused by Rimadyl or 2 eggs instead of her usual one last night!)

Apparently the local GRWE co-ordinator feeds her greyhounds on it too :) Any thoughts please? :)

BTW it costs £12 per box, with each box containing 8 packets, and I feed each of mine half a packet each per day - so it isnt that cheap!
 
Nearly all the working GSD people I know feed DUCK, so I would say it comes highly recommended! Just need a lot of freezer space. I think the local supplier charges £40 a pallet or something, not sure how many boxes that is.
 
Just looking online and have found it on Berriewoods website (for example) at £14.39 per box, so seems like I am getting a good deal :)

Thanks for the feedback so far :) I am just a natural fusser :o and wanted to be sure that I was feeding the right mix of vegetables, organ meat etc and this seemed to be the answer :)
 
IMHO no bone in it so it's all muscle meat and that might be the problem, shame as they are on the right track but still under the misconception that dogs need carbs in quantity and that that is where they get their fibre from. But far far better than most!
 
Thanks KK - we did agree that I should feed chicken wings and/or marrowbones a few times (I think 3 times) a week as well? Would this be enough of a combination?
 
I would go with it for a while until you are more confident and are happy to create your own, but I would only feed a "soft" meal like that once or twice a week with the rest being bone based.

Basically if you bought cheap mince from the supermarket, Asda do a cheap pork and beef mix, and fed that with a raw egg a couple of tablespoons of cod liver oil, a small handful of spinach and a carrot blended you would be giving them the same.

It's a big thing getting away from the "all meals must be balanced" doctrine that we have had preached at us for so long and that a dog needs meat and two veg like we do, but once you see how the dogs are doing you will get more of a feel for it and more confident about feeding a diet balanced by you over a week or two with bones and the odd soft meal.

It really is quite a forgiving diet, because whilst some meats are lacking in certain nutrient others are not, but they are all in a natural readily available form so a slight deficiency of natural food over a week is nothing to a deficiency in an inappropriate source in dried sack food you feed for months or years. Variety is the spice of life!!

I don't even think about it now I plonk their food in the freezer in layers and they get it as it comes out with a softy in between, usually when I forget to defrost!! So once you get sorted you'll be away!!
 
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They have just had chicken popsicles tonight I had some skanky carcasses from when my freezer defrosted (helps if you plug it in!!) I didn't dare defrost them or I would have chucked up, kept em quiet for ages! Always feed green tripe frozen can't stand that smell either.
 
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