I am switching to a raw diet for my lab. I am trying to find out what other people have done to switch their dogs over. What types of raw foods they started with? If they have a program that would work. I have being doing research for almost 3 weeks now and I am ready for the next step. thanks to anyone who can help.
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I am switching to a raw diet for my lab. I am trying to find out what other people have done to switch their dogs over. What types of raw foods they started with? If they have a program that would work. I have being doing research for almost 3 weeks now and I am ready for the next step. thanks to anyone who can help.
Well, you're in the right place.
But just so we don't reinvent the wheel and re-type a few thousand words, you might want to read these:
Then you might have questions, and the section you are in probably answers them a few thousand times over... but we are here, and we have a LOT of experienced and knowledgeable raw feeders here.
I think you'll find that many people base their RMBs on poultry or rabbit and then introduce variety after a start with the softer bones of chicken backs, etc.
P.S. Well, I posted at the same time as Ed, but as you see, we are giving you the same basic reading material.
I have read most of the Q&A after I posted this. I do have one question and it may be stupid.....but can you feed boneless chicken breast on the raw diet. I was considering cutting up the chicken breast and putting it my dogs kibble to get her used to raw food and then moving to chicken legs from there is that allowed?
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I have read most of the Q&A after I posted this. I do have one question and it may be stupid.....but can you feed boneless chicken breast on the raw diet. I was considering cutting up the chicken breast and putting it my dogs kibble to get her used to raw food and then moving to chicken legs from there is that allowed?
Well, I kind of dislike the idea of giving muscle meat without bones, because it can start a bad habit. (Muscle meat without the bones is a nutritional no-no.)
In small amounts, though, I have started adopted adult dogs who were leery of fresh meat after years on kibble with ground poultry breast so they'd get used to the taste without the texture challenge.
For the real diet, though, chicken breast is OK only as part of the whole bird (IMO) because modern farm poultry is so breast-heavy and light on bone.
No never mix raw food with kibble. They digest at different rates. Kibble takes longer and will slow the digestion of raw food. Raw food could be a problem if it is not digested in a timely manner. If your going to feed both do 1 meal raw and one kibble. Make the switch all or nothing and you wont have any problems. if your dog does not want to eat the raw pick it up and wait until the next meal time and then offer it again. At some point the dog will be hungry and eat and in the mean time his system will be cleaned out of kibble.
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No never mix raw food with kibble. They digest at different rates. Kibble takes longer and will slow the digestion of raw food.
That too.
No idea how I missed that part when I responded. I know there are raw-feeding sites and many raw feeders who say that kibble and raw are OK to mix in the same meal, but I still don't suggest it, myself. Nothing I've read has changed the basic information that kibble is digested much more slowly, and so unnaturally prolongs the contact with the digestive system of any raw meat fed with it.
Much of the reason dogs aren't affected the way humans are by pathogens in/on raw meat is their short fast digestive system ... which is not fast when kibble is involved.
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