I understand variety beeing a key to raw diet. Sometimes I think I switch to much. Example. one meal chicken next pork next ground beef with organs next mackeral next chicken with some veg mix. Sometimes they get loose stool from to nuch kidney or heart but doesn't realy bother me as humans do as well. is this ok or should we try switching but staying the same for at least a couple days. are main item is chicken backs and necks except now we are cutting up whole chickens as we got them sor 59 Cents a lb and we filled the freezer.

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I understand variety beeing a key to raw diet. Sometimes I think I switch to much. Example. one meal chicken next pork next ground beef with organs next mackeral next chicken with some veg mix. Sometimes they get loose stool from to nuch kidney or heart but doesn't realy bother me as humans do as well. is this ok or should we try switching but staying the same for at least a couple days. are main item is chicken backs and necks except now we are cutting up whole chickens as we got them sor 59 Cents a lb and we filled the freezer.

The one thing I keep to 5 or 10% of the diet is organ meat. It's true that some dogs will eat a ton of it with no ill effects, but I have seen and read about (and owned) many who get diarrhea from eating an overabundance of organ meat.

I admit that the huge bulk of my dogs' RMBs is poultry because the bones are perfect. Backs and necks, in fact, are the ideal first-RMB, IMO, because of the soft cartilage-y digestibility.

But I give as much variety as possible in the rest of their meat. Different protein profiles supply different levels of the 20 amino acids (of which some can be manufactured by the body and some must be ingested; dogs have ten essential, where humans have nine). Also, variety helps to minimize the chances of an allergy developing. (Speaking of allergies, I always reserve a couple of novel proteins to put into action in the event of possible allergies down the road, especially because I have dogs with unknown histories.)

Anyway, you are correct that variety is the best way to cover all the nutritional bases. There is no single meal that does that. If I fed kibble, it would never be one kibble recipe.

For healthy dogs, there's no need to stick to one protein source for a couple of days. There's also no need to provide different proteins in one day, although I usually do. The balance that we strive to give doesn't have a 24-hour limit on it.