I've been in the canine nutrition business for about 15 years and I've raised dogs for more than 20 and I've tried nearly every type of raw diet there is. First it was raw chicken, then tripe and a combination of both. Then I started blending flax seed with 70% lean ground beef and some calcium and dehydrated carrots and I've never had the dogs looking and working so good. I do feed Vertex supplement also and I feel it has as much to do with the health improvement as anything. However, I still feel that a good premium dog food and the supplement is as good if not better and a whole lot easier and faster.
Hello;
I also use the ground beef in my feedings as well and the kibble I use has flax seed included.
Question: Do any of you use Kelp? If so...how often? What are the benifits? How is it packaged and where do I find it?
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I am currently writing an article for my web site on the All-natural diets. I won't go into the entire thing here.
The reason I switched was that I had always been concerned about the vaule of just giving the dogs a dry commercial dog food. Dogs are carnivors, they were never meant to eat grains.
The bible I use to feed my dogs is the little $9.00 book I sell titled Natural Nutrition in Dogs and Cats http://leerburg.com/935.htm It is not hard to do and in 35 years of owning breeding dogs they have never looked this good.
The two main things that I have changed in my kennel in the past years are the All-natural diet and I no longer vaccinate my dogs after their initial puppy shots. If more people adopted these two programs their dogs would be a lot healthier
I agree completely. I feed my dogs Solid Gold,Innova mixed with Steve's Real Food which is a fresh,frozen raw cube. I also feed Vertex,sea meal,oils and Olewo carrots along with plain yogurt. I started on this diet roughly 12years ago.
I just found Steve's Real Food on the net
a few weeks ago. I am interested in hearing
more about this food. I know he grinds
up chicken backs in it. What is the cost
of feeding this food? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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I don't want to rain on Steves food but it is not that difficult to go down to your local grocery storey and buy fresh veggies and run them through a $30.00 food processor.
In my kennel we grind veggies twice a week and keep them in a plastic container in the fridge. Then the adult dogs get 1/4 to 1/2 of veggies with the meat and vitamines supliments every day.
I buy turkey necks from a meat wholesaler for 50 cents per pound and turkey hamberger for 45 cents per pound (they come in 10 pound tubes) There is a turkey proccessing plant 40 miles from me and I have two freezers (one for necks and one for turkey hamberger)
There is not difference between turkey and hamberger (other than cost) as far as I am concerned.
Oh,I agree Ed,I used to do that.I raised my own chickens,butchered them etc. I reckon age made me lazy <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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