 Where to find certain raw meat?
#231625 - 03/16/2009 05:45 PM |
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I've been wanting to feed my 13 wk old pup a raw diet, but I'm unsure where to find the suggested meats for my puppy, particularly chicken necks & backs and organ meat. I'm not seeing this stuff normally in the grocery store (other than the ground beef and beef liver). Is this normally something you can order from the butcher at the supermarket, or do you have to go a butcher store and buy it?
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Re: Where to find certain raw meat?
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#231626 - 03/16/2009 05:47 PM |
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Butcher shop, mostly.
If you have a raw feeding co-op around, you're lucky.
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Re: Where to find certain raw meat?
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#231633 - 03/16/2009 05:58 PM |
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I've been wanting to feed my 13 wk old pup a raw diet, but I'm unsure where to find the suggested meats for my puppy, particularly chicken necks & backs and organ meat. I'm not seeing this stuff normally in the grocery store (other than the ground beef and beef liver). Is this normally something you can order from the butcher at the supermarket, or do you have to go a butcher store and buy it?
A raw diet can definitely come from any supermarket: chickens, quartered by them or by you, chicken livers in little plastic tubs, etc., varieties of muscle meats, maybe canned mackerel or sardines, unsweetened yogurt ..... but it can be very helpful (dollar-wise) to chat up the butcher either there or in any butcher shop.
Actually, there's no harm and maybe some good to starting with whole birds (cut up, I mean) plus organ meat. It's not necessary, but it can really give you a feel for what the meat-to-bone ratio of an entire prey bird looks like. Whole rabbits would, too. It would eliminate any mistakes down the road like thinking that chicken breasts, say, were replicas of the whole-animal meat-bone ratio. (They are very meat-heavy, bone-light.) Not that anyone is likely to buy chicken breasts for the dog's meals, but it applies to any separated parts.
In fact, that's one cool thing about the LB sample meals, shown in the bowl: the whole "this is what it looks like" advantage.
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If you can find cornish game hens on sale, they can literally be the perfect, shrink-wrapped meal for a raw dog.
Whole prey, just unwrap.
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#231637 - 03/16/2009 06:07 PM |
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If you can find cornish game hens on sale, they can literally be the perfect, shrink-wrapped meal for a raw dog.
Whole prey, just unwrap.
I am hoping against hope to make that find! I keep looking ....... 
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Oh... let me rub it in, then.
I go to this bargain warehouse to shop for Danke's food.
They get overstocks, etc from other area stores, so their inventory is never the same, but they have really good prices.
Kind of like Ross, but for food.
So, about two months ago, they had a big batch of Cornish Game Hens. $0.85 per lbs.
Granted, not as cheap as I get my chicken from the butcher, but still quite cheap for whole little birdies.
We literally bought $80 worth of hens. All that they had.
My deep-freeze is quite full on one side, just with cornish game hens.
If feedings are spaced properly, they should last until her second birthday, LOL.
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#231641 - 03/16/2009 06:20 PM |
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Ohhhhhh ........ 
With very different sizes of dogs, those would be SO fabulous! Heck, at twice the price I would love to get them!
One of them could have a quarter at each meal, one could have a half, maybe a whole one to one of them (I don't know how big they are) ..... easily chopped in half ...... easily stored ....... quickly thawed .....
Ohhhhhh ........
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#231642 - 03/16/2009 06:25 PM |
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Oh. 
And back to the O.P.
While I go off and sulk.
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Umm... this is more or less on the subject (and would be another answer to the OPs question -BTW Sharon, you'll learn with raw, there is seldom only ONE right answer):
What sort of etiquette does one use when inquiring as to how to obtain a store's excess Easter chicks and bunnies after the holiday?
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