Linda L Ward Webboard User Reg: 03-06-2009
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That's all I'm feeding him. I'm afraid I'm doing this all wrong! I've ordered some books to help but they haven't arrived yet. I'll go today and get some chicken bones.
It is OK. But you will need to make some adjustments.
As a guide, a dog needs about 20% bone, 70% meat and 10% organs. All of those can be adjusted plus or minus 5% and some will add in veggies.
If you are going to feed prey model, then picture a chicken, bones, muscle and organs, and that is close to being balanced. You will need to add in other protein types; lamb is great, but also beef, turkey, pork, rabbit, fish, and other game are also options.
Fish oil and Vit E are necessities and if you don't do veggies, then alfalfa powder or kelp is good but raw tripe is the best!
Linda L Ward Webboard User Reg: 03-06-2009
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He did not seem to like the Embark too much so I stopped trying for now. I am giving him "Enhance" kibble which is what he came to us with for his 3 daily meals and using a small squirt of Salmon oil that I got from Leerburg. I suppliment that with lamb or beef bones all day long. I am giving him as much food as he will eat in 15 minutes 3 times a day right now.
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That's all I'm feeding him. I'm afraid I'm doing this all wrong! I've ordered some books to help but they haven't arrived yet. I'll go today and get some chicken bones.
"Chicken bones" is not really the way to think about it. "Dead chickens" is more the picture you want in your mind as the bone-to-meat ratio.
Linda,
I would stick to the kibble for now, since his diet is mostly comprised of it anyway.
Do more research, ask questions, etc.
The lamb and beef bones you are giving are essentially chew toys, and in a pup that young are a great distraction/entertainment. I would not, however, consider them food.
OK, that is different than just ground beef and lamb bones! (What I was picturing... :crazy
Try giving him one of his meal as raw for a few weeks, and then two of them raw, and so on. Don't make the next change until the poops are normal on the current and work with only one type of meat at a time (again, until poops are normal.)
Read up on those pages we gave you to adjust your raw portion of foods.
A good plan would be to A) keep a dog input/output journal; B) feed raw in the morning (a half of a bone in breast with a slice of meat cut off or a half a chicken back) and kibble in the other two meals (not mixed with raw); C) all those cool bones offered throughout the day to occupy the pup as chew toys
*ETA- Geezz! You guy are fast! I don't see a problem with adding a meal of RAW in the mornings at this point. Just go slowly and wait for good poops for the next move. Like Alyssa said, the pup is getting mostly kibble at this point*
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