I read the post under this topic concerning how much to feed. Cindy Easton stated 2-3% of a dog's body weight. I stopped today and got some beef scraps. Bones and meat. Actually the butcher shop let me go back and pick out what I wanted. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I have an 11 week old male GSD. I fed him a fairly meaty bone about the size of my fist. He ate the meat off of it and chewed on the bone a little but still appeared hungry. I gave him another bone a little larger than the first one about an hour later. He weighs about 20 pounds so 2-3% of that would be right at half a pound of meat. Would ya'll suggest feeding puppies more? If so how much more? What about ground beef as well as the bones? On the topic of the bones do you pull bones away from them if they haven't consumed them in say 12 hours? Or do you not feed them again till they have eaten all of the bone?

Somebody mentioned fish. Do you feed whole fish? If so are the bones a problem?

A little guidance would be appreciated.

Chris

I think we both need to know more about feeding raw/barf but for now feed that 11 week old puppy something that will come out the other end

Im thinking about going to a raw / barf food but I think I need more ifo. anyone know where Eds article on the detox part is my wife stoped cooking

What we can do is this...if y'all are so inclined. I have the Billinghurst book (but no dog), so I'm not in need of reference material any time soon.

Chris, if you reimburse the shipping I can send the book to you. When you're done you can send it to whomever, as long as it gets back to me eventually.

PM me if you're interested.

Just understand you will never see it again Kurze...

I am not a stickler on loaning stuff, but I was once told by a wise woman... never a borrower or a lender be...

I did this once before on another forum. Things worked out alright.

I think of it this way. I didn't pay for 5 ounces of paper and ink. I paid for the knowledge stored on paper...I have that knowledge now. It's more important that dogs eat well.

On second thought, maybe I'll limit this to one person at a time...lest I turn into some kind of altruist.

Go to http://WWW.NJBOXERS.COM you'll find about all you need to know on this site. There are also a lot of links from the site.

If your interested in purchasing some Barf already prepared, these links can help you they also have links within them to help you get more educated. I've been feeding the Barf diet since my puppy was 12 weeks old she's now 24 weeks. I started off with the barf already prepared but it can be expensive so I started to give her maybe 2 wings in place of a patty or a turkey neck.
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