I have reached a bit of an issue with feeding a raw diet. My 2 yr old dobie had 3 feet of his intestine removed a few months ago due to the inability to pass a piece of a toy he had swallowed. My vet warned me that if he eats a large piece of food, or specifically, a bone, that it may damage his intestine where she had put it back together. Since then I have been feeding kibble, which I hate. I want to get him back on a raw diet, but not sure what to do to supplement the bones. Di-calcium phosphate?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thought about grinding, but not sure about it. What tools would I need. I read somewhere that I needed to dry the bones for a few days before grinding ( that was after cooking them first). Seems like I would loose a lot of the nutritional aspect if I had to cook them first.
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That's what I'd do-- grind meat and bones. Alternatively, crushed eggshell can be used to provide a calcium source along with boneless meat. Connie can weigh in on the ratio on that.
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No cooking or drying of bones necessary. Just run whole chicken pieces through a meat grinder. You'll just need an electric meat grinder that will handle that, which will cost a couple hundred dollars.
Melissa Hoyer Webboard User Reg: 05-09-2005
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You can purchase ground RMBs. Oma's Pride and Bravo are two widely circulated brands. I also purchase a pet mix from a local chicken farm and from a company called G&C Raw Dog Food.
I feed my dogs di-calcium phosphate with their meat. It works well.
I sprinkle it on the meat. I've done it long enough that I can eyeball how much they need (runny poop/needs more calcium, hard poop/needs less calcium).
I have used bone meal (from the garden center) in the past.
My dogs also get meat and easily consumed bones part of the time. I can't see a difference in the poop with either calcium source.
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Quote: Tracy Collins
That's what I'd do-- grind meat and bones. Alternatively, crushed eggshell can be used to provide a calcium source along with boneless meat. Connie can weigh in on the ratio on that.
900 mg of elemental calcium to a pound of boneless meat. Eggshell would be my preference because of the unknown phosphorus content clogging up the ratio with bonemeal.
None added to balanced RMBs that are ground, of course..... just to boneless meat.
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