I have 3 Rottweilers.. 2 females "4 months" and 1 male "5 months" that I feed ground Beef Heart along with Embark and Puppy Gold. Once a day they get the Salmon Oil and Vitamin E as well.
The little monsters never seem to be satisfied and will eat anything you put in front of them. I'm sure that if I were to let them they would eat themselves sick.
The food I’m giving them now is quite heavy and would think that it would satisfy them but it doesn’t. They all seem to have a never ending appetite. They will eat anything I put in front of them and want to try potatoes but I’m a little worried that I might over do it with the carbs.
Is it ok to give them a potato a day?
The whole concept of the raw diet is new to me so any advice I can get on the diet I have them on would be greatly appreciated.

the embark has all the vegs you need,try more raw meat or rmbs,but if the dogs are thin and in shape maybe there fine.I think you might have answered your own question( they would eat themselves sick)

Potato? Negative.

Consider yourself lucky to have ravenous little piggies. Once you switch to an all raw diet, you'll have no problems introducing all sorts of variety.

You're feeding quality stuff already. They look well? They act well? Good. They're fine. Don't worry about volume. Go with the flow.

Edit: Do give boney stuff, rather than just beef heart, if the current set-up is what your comfy with. The benefits of bone are too many to list for current purposes and easily found within the forum here.

No need for potatoes and don't think that would be a good option for filling up a dog, although I'm sure they would eat it. They don't need to feel full. I don't know if being full would contribute to bloat in the large breeds, but I wouldn't chance it. My dog has always been and still is always ravenous, seemingly never satisfied. Makes training easy

Scratching the potatoes off the list… Thx

At this point, would it be ok to give them whole chicken quarters? They are very capable of chewing up the bones.
All three of them are on target as far as their weight goes. I’m just concerned that I’d be pushing too much on them at their age. They have never eaten kibble so when it comes to raw they don’t know any different and seem to trust that what ever I put in front of them is edible. For example: I have a fairly large fish tank and on occasion when I feed the fish they accidentally jump out. Well the first time it happened I was to slow to react and fishy became Zoi's snack. Mind you these are not small fish either. So now I have to crate them when feeding the fish.
It’s almost a blessing having this amount of food drive... Training is so much easier when you have something to bargain with. I’m almost out of things to work with them on at this age. Monday I sent out for a puppy sleeve and will start working on that which will definitely raise their appetites even more.
Thanks for the feedback !!

I feed a lot of Leg quarters to mine William but I either cut the leg part into small pieces with shears or grind it because for some reason he will try to swallow it whole with the leg bone left intact. He chews up the thigh and back parts fine if the leg is gone but for some goofy reason he'll pick the whole thing up by the leg and just try to gulp it down.

Think i could take a hammer to it and cut it up?
Your right, i could see them trying to swallow the whole thing now that you mentioned it..

Actually, I have a gulper but for some reason he doesn't gulp chicken quarters....except the last few bites. I think it's cause the quarters are so big. He will gulp chick wings and will crunch down 3 or 4 times on a drumstick, then swallow, but he works longer on a quarter.

I would not cut up the quarters unless maybe you cut into small pieces like Steve mentioned. Personally I'm afraid to cut up bones for him since there will be splintered bone that he might gulp without having the advantage of feeling the bones in his mouth as he's breaking them down and knowing when to swallow them. I'm also concerned with crushing them, unless they're pulverized. I much more trust his ability as a dog to crush the bones himself with his teeth and instinctively knowing when to swallow. At least this is what I tell myself

I believe potatoes contain sapotoxins which could be bad for the dog. I'm not sure on this one but my guess is tha Connie would know more about it! Saponins, sapotoxins, etc...

enrique

I'll try that tonight Sandy after they've eaten a little and calmed down. Maybe after they have eaten a little and calm down a bit they'll slow down and try and chew it...
Hace you ever heard of anyone grinding the whole chickens and feeding them that way?
I could ask my butcher to do that. He can grind the hearts up might as well try the chicken too. That is unless someone knows of it being a bad idea.