I'm getting a dobermann puppy in about 2 months and I'm researching the RAW/BARF diet for my dog. Cost is one of the unknowns I'm having trouble figuring out.
My best estimation is that I'll be feeding the dog around two pounds a day at $1 a pound. So I'm figuring $60 a month. Is close to what those of you out there are spending?
Also any tips to saving money on the diet without compromising it would be appreciated.
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I'm getting a dobermann puppy in about 2 months and I'm researching the RAW/BARF diet for my dog. Cost is one of the unknowns I'm having trouble figuring out. ...My best estimation is that I'll be feeding the dog around two pounds a day at $1 a pound. So I'm figuring $60 a month. Is close to what those of you out there are spending?.....
Close enough for horseshoes. Below is a many-post discussion URL of how folks on this board save money.
I found that my cost went down a lot once I knew what I used a lot of, stocked up on sales, cottoned to Trader Joe's great frozen organic produce prices and wild frozen fish prices, and started making deals with the farmers and fishers at the weekly farmers' market down the street (at the end of the day when they wanted to sell what was left and not pack it back in the truck).
There are LOTS of ways to keep the price under control.
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supermarket specials and a 15 cu. ft chest freezer are your best friends.......when they have specials, i buy it all, and if it isn't enough, i order case lots at the sale price. .....make friends with the butchers at the meat counter! <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Absolutely true, but don't be scared off if you have no separate freezer.
I want to get one of those half-size counter-top chest freezers, but I haven't done it yet, and I do manage fine with just the freezer on top of the 'fridge.
I just wouldn't want anyone to put it off for lack of "equipment." <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
The only real equipment I think I'd have to have to start off are heavy plastic freezer baggies.
The majority of my vegetable matter is now entirely free.
Cafe's which sell various juices have pounds upon pounds of pulp in the dumpster on any given day. Simply call in the morning and say you'll be in by the evening to pick it up. In variably they have plastic containers they have to throw away or recycle too.
And with cuts of (bony) meat between .29 and 1.19 per pound, my dog is eating for...I don't even know. Not much.
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when i started out, i only had my regular freezer on top of my refrigerator and it was more than adequate. but the chest freezer easily paid for itself in one winter, because of the ability to take advantage of sales and also free wild game during hunting season.
you don't need any freezer baggies btw. i also bagged stuff when i first started, but quit doing it when i figured out i could just ask the butcher to wrap it for me in individual portions. that service is already built into their prices! now i just pick it up at the supermarket and toss it directly in the freezer. the only time i have to handle the meat is when i feed it to the dog.
I just found a sale 10lb bag of chicken quarters for $2.90
They had 11 bags left. That is 110lbs of dog food for $32.00. Also, I just called a farm feed store and I can get a live chicken for $2. No freezer needed for that.
Steve
Those who would give up essential freedoms for the temporary feeling of safety deserve neither!!
If you are feeding a large dog, or multiple small dogs I have found that plastic shoe boxes with the snap on lids work well for repackaging and freezing bulk meat. they stack nicely in the freezer too.
it's way cheaper than baggies and they don't leak...I run them through the dishwasher between uses.
In also took Advantage of the $5 turkey sale for thanks givinig,
Filled allmy freezer space and cooloers with 5 dollar turkeys. that is 400 pound of turkley for $100. Try to find dog food that cheap.
Those who would give up essential freedoms for the temporary feeling of safety deserve neither!!
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