 Pricing on RAW meats
#134980 - 03/24/2007 02:11 PM |
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Hello all,
Not too familiar with the going price of RMBs, so can some of you
please check this site (Creston Valley Meats) to see if these are
killer deals on their meaty bones? The vendor has contacted me,
and let me know that he travels up my way every 4/6 weeks:
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I don't see chicken backs & such, mainly beef/pork/ostrich.
Would those necks and ribs be sufficient bone/meat ratios?
God Bless,
Martin
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[Re: Martin Espericueta ]
#134984 - 03/24/2007 03:00 PM |
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Can we use raw pork to feed our dogs? I tried a breif search of the archives and couldn't find anything. We have access to lots of free raw pork but I always thought we should not be using it. When I saw it on the price list I began wondering about this question again.
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#134985 - 03/24/2007 03:13 PM |
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He has some exotic stuff, which should be great for an occasional meal... most of them are ground.
Regarding the bone meat ratio: if you feed only backs or necks, you will probably be feeding too much bone. I think it's better to think of whole animals when you feed your dog. If you feed him a whole chicken, or rabbit, you can't go wrong. Some days he will get the breast, which will have a lot of meat. Others he will get other parts which will have more bone in them. Overall, the diet will be balanced.
I recently got a good deal on whole chickens for $0.79 per pound. It includes the neck and organs (although I've seen two hearts in both chickens I've cut up so far). I get raped when I buy whole rabbits, so I'm seriously considering buying a couple of live rabbits and let them do their thing. I hear they like to do it frequently.
I get whole turkeys for $0.99 per pound. Duck = $1.50. Cornish Game Hens = $1.75.
Hope this helps.
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#134986 - 03/24/2007 03:15 PM |
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Can we use raw pork to feed our dogs? I tried a breif search of the archives and couldn't find anything. We have access to lots of free raw pork but I always thought we should not be using it. When I saw it on the price list I began wondering about this question again.
Yeah, you can feed pork. Forgot to mention I recently bought some pork ribs for $0.99 x pound.
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#134989 - 03/24/2007 03:30 PM |
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He has some exotic stuff, which should be great for an occasional meal... most of them are ground.
Regarding the bone meat ratio: if you feed only backs or necks, you will probably be feeding too much bone. I think it's better to think of whole animals when you feed your dog. If you feed him a whole chicken, or rabbit, you can't go wrong. Some days he will get the breast, which will have a lot of meat. Others he will get other parts which will have more bone in them. Overall, the diet will be balanced.
I recently got a good deal on whole chickens for $0.79 per pound. It includes the neck and organs (although I've seen two hearts in both chickens I've cut up so far). I get raped when I buy whole rabbits, so I'm seriously considering buying a couple of live rabbits and let them do their thing. I hear they like to do it frequently.
I get whole turkeys for $0.99 per pound. Duck = $1.50. Cornish Game Hens = $1.75.
Hope this helps.
Thanks Richard!
So I can stock up with this guy's meats - pricing looks good(?).
As long as I look at a "prey model" when feeding this stuff, I
should be okay - thanks! I'll add variety with the exotics now
and again too.
Regarding the too-much bone ratio, would those ribs/necks be a
good "morning meal" - with ground turkey (or something like that,
with no bone content) being the evening meal?
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#134992 - 03/24/2007 03:47 PM |
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.... I think it's better to think of whole animals when you feed your dog. ...
Me too.
Many people (me included) start with soft easy-to-digest bones, like chicken backs.
If I were not doing whole birds, I'd probably go with backs, because not only are they cartilage-y and easy to chew, even for a beginner -- they are also VERY inexpensive (and sometimes free). I add muscle or heart meat if I'm doing backs, as does the Leerburg sample menu.
One popular formula for feeding backs as opposed to whole:
65% backs, 25-30% muscle meat, 5-10% organ meat
The idea behind the formula is to replicate the whole prey item. So when the 65% is mentioned, it doesn't mean plain bones; it means meaty bones. 
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#134993 - 03/24/2007 03:48 PM |
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Regarding the too-much bone ratio, would those ribs/necks be a
good "morning meal" - with ground turkey (or something like that,
with no bone content) being the evening meal?
They should be ok even if you feed them for a couple of days without a "no bone" meal. This, of course, if the RMB you're talking about (specially the ribs/backs) have sufficient meat in them. Necks are a very good RMB, IMO (and in many other board members here). Your dogs stools should tell you if you're feeding too much bone or too much meat. Yuko Blum spoke about this recently. Might want to do a search on her and her recent posts. She's the raw expert 
And I think that most ground meat bought in supermarkets has bone in them (which should be a good thing for us that feed it to our dogs). Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. This is just a guess.
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#134994 - 03/24/2007 03:51 PM |
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.... And I think that most ground meat bought in supermarkets has bone in them (which should be a good thing for us that feed it to our dogs). Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. This is just a guess.
It does not.
Unless you special-order ground whole birds, say, then the ground meat sold in supermarkets (ground turkey, ground beef, etc.) does NOT contain bones.
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#134997 - 03/24/2007 04:12 PM |
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It does not.
Unless you special-order ground whole birds, say, then the ground meat sold in supermarkets (ground turkey, ground beef, etc.) does NOT contain bones. 
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#134999 - 03/24/2007 04:16 PM |
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Well, think about it: Do you want bones in your own burger?
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