Raw food and Inuit howl

[Oberon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YJ1BcjMoeg

Salem (my Inuit) has always had a rash to his armpits and belly.

I'm having my kitchen extended and updated and will have room for a shed freezer.

I will be buying a new blender too and can retire the old one to 'dog use'.

Would this be a good time to explore a raw diet?

Is it possible to do when working full-time and with two horses and a family?

 

[Toffee44]

Work full time, horses and it works fine, you Wont need blender he will be better ripping and chewing meaty bones and whole hearts etc. I get food out night before. In red bin with lid and dish out for dinner. Start getting friendly with butchers now.

 

[MydnightShadow]

If you have a good size freezer you can buy ready made and balanced raw dog food from places like Natural Instinct. All you have to do then is remember to defrost it as you need it.

http://www.naturalinstinct.com/

 

[Oberon]

Are Butchers usually helpful with this kind of diet?

 

[soloabe]

Yes very much so.

You won't be needing the blender.

Read the raw food sticky above and Google prey model diet.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Are Butchers usually helpful with this kind of diet?

Frankly, no. I've been to ever butcher for miles around and only one kind of understands.

If you are south of Lincolnshire, the Dog Food Company delivers http://www.thedogfoodcompany.co.uk/products.html £5 delivery charge and minimum £20 order required. They have it all, I find. Remember your 10:10:80 ratio (bone, offal, meat) and start slowly, especially with offal, which can cause runny bums at first.

DAF is in the north east (Durham)

Raw to Go, based in Abergavenny, delivers nationwide and makes up minces with the correct ratios as above.

Landywoods also deliver, but I've heard bad things about quality.

If you can talk to a local butcher, they may make up minces for you. Remember not to give weight bearing bones and bones that you can't stick a knife in. Chicken wings are ideal to start. I use maybe one freezer drawer to feed all 3 of mine a week, probably less.

Look at this forum, tons of help re raw feeding. http://www.petforums.co.uk/dog-health-nutrition/111437-raw-feeding-everything-you-need-know.html

 

[Toffee44]

Think depends on butcher. I get chicken carcass and beef rib bones.for about 50p. Sometimes get offal cheap. If you have deer culls round you find out who does them, mine had heads for ages. We all have our own way of sourcing. I don't hav3 a problem with landywoods last week they couldn't source turkey wings which threw my menu out a bit. A book called "work wonders feed raw meaty bones" is a good start. And then read into prey models. Most people start on chicken wings, I also fed rabbit as whole when I started. Just freeze first or gut with regards to tapeworm.