hi, I feed chicken coz its cheaper but briefly overheard something about dogs needing beef and some kind of important nutrient in it and keeping blood sugar up, which has been an issue we suspect with our malinois. Has anyone heard anything to that effect? Should I be feeding red meat? Do you think I harmed her in bringing her up soley on chicken??? We occasionally add canned and she gets eggs sometimes and salmon oil and acv and vitamin e.
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I have nothing to add regarding the nutrional side of things.
However i do feed red meat, from deer to beef.
Only thing i wont feed is raw ground beef.
In my opinion yes you should be feeding some sort of red meat.
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Variety in any diet is important. It covers any possible "missing" micronutrients that you'd only get by feeding the same thing every day.
Beef isn't required--but I think a dog needs more than chicken as the only protein.
Turkey and pork are both cheap and easy to find.
For beef, heart is the cheapest cut. I feed lots of beef heart.
Aim for variety over time. You don't have to have variety in every meal--but I would aim for at least a meal or two per week that includes something besides chicken. JMO
If your dog is healthy and her coat is nice, I wouldn't worry about denying her beef. Wild canids don't get any beef! They do eat deer and mice, probably more mice than anything.
You could feed some lamb or a cheap beef roast, cut of most of the fat, now and then. For variety.
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I feed chicken, duck & turkey daily. Also usually 1 other meat most days. That can be: pork, beef, lamb, goat(2-3x a month), occasionally buffalo. I have kept rabbit & venison as reserve meats since both are accessible. And of course organ meats & eggs & fish etc to complete the protein in their diet.
I feel that a mixed diet covers the vast amount of nutrients & minerals etc that they need. I want to cover as many bases as I can naturally with a minimum of add ins other than salmon oil & vitamin E.
ok, thanks guys, variety is key! I knew that I just forgot temporarily lol. Will check out some beef heart and see what else I can find for a decent price. Might be trying to train her for hunting a bit so maybe next season she can find her own food!!
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Some raw feeders don't like to feed store-bought ground beef because there may be an increased risk of contamination. In a whole hunk of meat, all the germs are on the outside (and could be mostly washed off, or limited to just the surface.)
When the store grinds up the meat, all those bacteria get mixed in, and have a lot of surface area to multiply.
Personally, I HAVE fed store-bought ground beef to my dogs many times without any problems, and wound again if the price of ground beef would come down!
But that's very likely the reason that others mentioned it.
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