It might be okay for some dogs, but not all. If I fed kibble with raw to my dogs… well… I’d have quite a mess on my hands!
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Just got an email back from a blue ridge rep. Apparently the beef with bone or chicken with bone is truly just meat and bone (no organ). However, the “puppy mix” has “beef ,chicken,tripe,and beef heart,beef liver.” It makes me apprehensive that they cannot guarantee a certain percent of organ because what if I ended up feeding a tube that was 30% organ?
I know that chicken necks, and wings will probably be the bone source that I start out with but I am still trying to figure out how to determine how much “bone” these count for in the ratio.
With a healthy adult dog I feel like there is more wiggle room to “wing it” but that is not a risk I would take with a puppy. I would feel so awful if I ended up with a puppy who had health problems because he did not receive adequate nutrition during key developmental periods.[/QUOTE]
I have been feeding raw for nearly eight years, and have raised three puppies (three generations) on it and it really isn’t hard. I feed a ground meal in the morning (not ground with bone, just ground) and a meat/bone lunch and dinner. Every one of these dogs has thrived, has a gorgeous coat and they have never had any of the skin issues Dals can be susceptible to. I do add veggies/fruit to the ground meal, and occasionally they get things like canned pumpkin, or a sweet potato (cooked) or scrambled eggs. But more for variety than anything else. I do feed raw eggs 2-3 times a week.
Don’t overthink it! The dog food companies have done their jobs too well and have people believing they are the only ones who can properly feed your dog (they are also the ones who make the vets uncomfortable with raw). But prior to the 1950s, when kibble started the drumroll of “complete and balanced,” the family dog had pretty much done fine on table scraps and butcher throw aways.
And I still feed regular dog treats. With no ill effects.
