saesms

yes, sure to change it slowly, increasing by 50gms daily,

today gave 200gms of chicken, will change it to beef slowly,

i want to know, when i am changing it to beef should i add a little chicken to the beef or just beef alone?

DLS

My new guy that I am getting has been raised on BARF. His breeder has been feeding her dogs Barf for over 10 years. Do most of you make up your own meals or do you buy Barf diets allready made up? ANd about the TRIPE, the last beef that we butchered here I 'harvested' the tripe. What a dirty smelly job, BUT my dogs LOVE it. Also what kind of veggies do you add to your dogs meals.

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sorthund

Saesms: either way is fine

DLS: I make my own meals, I think it's cheaper in the long run, and I buy meat for the family any way. I feed all kinds of veggies, whatever we have around. Last night I made a batch of broccoli stems, Romaine lettuce, carrots, Bok choy and alfalfa.

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Luvbirds59

Petey HATES veggies....so his only vegetable food comes from the tripe. I make my own meals too. I buy human grade meat from my supermarket.

Carol & Petey!
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DLS

Do you guys feed any fruit at all?
sorthund, do you lightly steam the veggies or just raw?
I know my dogs love to chew up chunks of Zuchinni and Pumpkin, raw with skin on.

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sorthund

I puree all veggies raw and mix with cut up meat when that is on the menu. Some times I'll throw in an overripe banana, or when we have strawberries I feed the green part that I cut off for humans which always has too much berry on, or other bruised berries (the dogs don't care, but my kids do). If we have left over steamed veggies I know we won't eat, I freeze those and blend when I make a new batch of veggies. I always have a bag in the freezer where I put stuff for the dogs. I only feed a few spoonfuls at a time, and not necessarily at every meal, so it does not make up a big part of the diet. I do feed tripe as well about once a week.

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Jennie

I'm not sure this question has been asked or not (I read the first 5-6 pages or so!), but I still can't understand why you have to blend fruits and veggies to feed to the dogs?

I know people have said it's because in the wild the dogs would eat the stomachs of the animals they're eating, and the animals they eat, eat fruits and veggies and those things would be in the animals stomachs, and so by blending it, you're replicating this...is that the case??

If that is the case, how is blending it helping to aid in digesting it in the dogs stomachs? All it's doing is changing the consistency of the food they're eating. Not adding any 'digestive aids' in there...right? Did I miss something? lol..sorry if it's been answered, I just don't understand!

DLS

When you feed veggies whole the dogs do not chew them up thoroughly, as their teeth and bite are for ripping off meat and swallowing without much chewing involved. So by blending up the veggies first the dogs are going to digest them much easier, as they would from an animals stomach contents.
Is this what you were wondering about Jennie?

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DobeMomToo

I think Jennie is asking why feed fruits and veggies at all to animals that are essentially carnivores.

Okay, gonna ask my ignorant BARF question too -- R = Raw, correct? Raw for meat? Anyone concerned about Escherichia Coli?

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DLS

AHHHHHHHH.
Well I know that left to their own tastes my dogs regularly eat grass, some weeds, new growth on the ends of fir tree branches, wild berries of many kinds eg., blueberries, salal berries, strawberries, raspberrries etc.
when in season. So I think adding them dried, canned or frozen and then blended in the 'off' season is a good thing to do.

I am not worried about E. Coli. I would never feed anything to my dog or myself that I thought might be contaminated. I prepare their meals just like mine.

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