Feeding Raw (natures menu/DUCK)

It really all depends on where you buy from - I get a carrier bag of bones, offal etc from my butchers for a £1 a bag - so it can cost me as little as £10 a month. I also get bags of tripe mince and chicken wings etc from the pet shop - anything from £3 - £10 depending on the amount I buy. Other bits are bought from supermarket cheap sections so coast anything from a few pence to a couple of quid depending on what it is:) I doubt I ever spend more than £30 a month on food - and that is for Max with the hollow legs and Sweep whose eyes are bigger then his stomach......;):D
 
I feed my 4 Border Collies on Prize Choice raw meat, it cost me about 12.50 pounds on meat a week, they do get a mixer biscuit too and that cost me about 2 pounds a week, so 4 medium sized dogs cost about 14.50 a week to feed, when I went away for a week in the caravan and couldn't take the raw food, I fed them on a good dry food and that cost about 24 pounds for the week to feed them!
 
I'm confused- I was told about 'DUCK' and 'natures menu' but these are bought frozen and fed raw. It was these I was on about- I'm not brave enough to actually make my own dog food. I can barely cook for myself! It's interesting though.
 
http://www.brynvale.co.uk/foodtable.htm

This tells you how much you need to feed by bodyweight for DUCK, then you can work out the cost to feed it to your dog. Simples!;)

So, for my girls they should get 632grams per day. Going by the prices somewhere else on the site it would cost me £1.36 per dog to feed their Lamb and Rice, less if I bought in more bulk. So, for 3 dogs, £4.08 per day, £28.56 per week, £114.24 per four week period.

I have three adult pointers, their approx bodyweight is 25kg each.
 
I use

http://rawtogo.co.uk/default.aspx

Lesley is really helpful and the packs of meat are great!
I use one pack for 4 collie sized dogs for breakfast which are around 65p a pack
As we have a good supply of chicken carcasses from the butcher we give this as their other meal of the day/ or fish once a week.
But I still think rawtogo is good value and would be if you sued jsut them - you can also buy packs of various chicken wings/necks/lamb bones if you decided to be a little more adventurous than just the prepacked meat.
 
I am feeding Natural Instinct complete BARF/ RAW diet. I feed each of my 2 collies/ collie X 500g per day so I get through 1 kilo per day split between 2 meals. The cost is dependant on the meat chosen. Chicken is £2.85 kilo and lamb is £5.35 kilo. Working chicken and turkey are both £2.45 kilo which is the cheapest they do for a complete food.

As it costs a lot I just had a look at the Natures menu site. Their products only contain about half the meat that Natural Instinct do so I would be very concerned about feeding it.

eg. Natures menu Chicken Nuggets contain only 32% chicken. It is also bulked out with 15% rice.

Natural Instinct Chicken contains 80% chicken with bone.

It is a similar story with the other 'flavours'.

Although it is costing a lot I think I will stick with Natural Instinct!!

http://www.naturalinstinct.com/
 
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