I am about to start the dogs on a raw food diet and a 'holistic' baked biscuit mixer, plus some pulped vegetables and oily fish, and I know this sounds like a contradiction in terms, but I was wondering if any nutritional value is lost if the chicken or offal is occasionally cooked? the only reason I would like to do this from time to time, is the pointers don't like raw meat like liver or heart, but love it poached, and on these occasions it would be handy to be able to give it to the Boerboels too, can anyone advise me on this please?
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IMO--no, there's no problem with cooking if it gets the dog to eat those things. There are some wonderful dog diets based entirely on home-cooked foods.
Obviously you know never to feed cooked bones.
I'd think that cooking it as little as possible would be the goal. Just enough to get them to eat it. Poaching sounds ideal (if stinky.) ;-) They might even like to drink the cooled poaching liquid as an aperitif.
Yes it is a bit whiffy! and I do use the liquid to soak the kibble, I have always fed complete dry foods, but just recently the two younger dogs are clearly not getting what they need from it and are often passing sloppy poo, so having spoken to our trainer and discussing raw food and vegetables and pasta, the light bulb went on, it is such a simple solution that I feel incredibly foolish for not changing before now!
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Not sure what your exact recipes are, but I'm one that believes in minimizing starches in the canine diet, so I would go easy on the pasta. The preponderance of the diet should be from raw meat and bones from as wide a variety of fowl, beast and fish as you can muster. Then the cooked organ meats you mention (or raw ones they will eat). Then small amounts of nutrient-dense and non-starchy veggies. And everybody benefits from fish oil supplements.
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Changing the dogs diet
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