Another dog food thread

Croatoan

krlyr wrote: »

Regular meals consist of stuff like chicken carcasses, tripe, beef chunks, various minces, chicken legs (with meat on), liver, lung, meaty bones like ribs, etc. There's a bit of research to do with feeding raw, it's not as simple as giving raw meat, you no longer have the backup of scientifically-balanced commercial foods so you have to trust yourself to get the balance right, but we do it on a daily basis with feeding ourselves, we don't eat 200g of nugget food and most of us do an OK job of getting a healthy balance

Is tripe counted as organ or muscle meat? I'm reading various answers for this. I know heart is counted as muscle meat, but is it particularly rich (like organ meat) and needs restricting?

krlyr

I count it as muscle meat in mine. My rule is to think about what it does in the body and if it's likely to be majorly different to a rump of steak or whatever. The liver is there processing food, cleansing the blood, making enzymes and all sorts, the kidneys are filtering out your blood, regulating all sorts of different things. The heart just contracts to pump the blood, so structurally isn't all that different to your leg muscles, expanding and contracting. OK, the stomach probably is a little different because it has the job of digesting food, but the stomach wall is a mass of muscle, it's not going to contain quite so many vitamins and stuff as the other organs.

robocop

pulliptears wrote: »

This video is what persuaded me to change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT3u6La45Lk

Mine had both been on an extruded food for many years. Wish I'd seen that years ago.

Thanks for posting this. Does anyone feed this Farm Foods HE food? Would love to know how this compares portion wise and therefore price wise also.

http://www.farmfood.co.uk/dogfood/premium-quality/natural-holistic/natural_dog_food.html