Raw diet question, advice please. :-)

Hey guys,

Looking for some advice from people more in the know with the raw diet, I'm thinking about changing my doggies onto a raw diet, I have done a fair bit of reading/ researching over the years. But struggled to find local suppliers.

Well basically I have found a local supplier that can cheaply supply:

1) Chicken carcuseses
2) pork tongue
3) trotters

And other parts of meat not used that often by human customers .

Would what I listed above be a good start to the path of moving to a raw diet??

Cheers in advance for any help

hi to start off you need to stick to chicken mince with low bone content and no offal for a few weeks then add another mine like turkey , my 7mth old now eats duck,venison,lamb,tripe,beef,chicken,turkey and fish with lots of offal.. are you on facebook ? i can give you the details of the raw site i am on, its very friendly and has all the files for age, weight and of course the 80/10/10 , muscle meats, bone, liver and offal percentages . I order all my meats in from frozen dog food wholesalers , Daf and landywoods i have found to be very good so far . do you have freezer space ? lol as you never seem to have quite enough room . I have yet to try pork as some dogs dont tolerate it to well.

Here is a link that may help

http://staffy-bull-terrier.com/raw_faq

We feed RAW but Suki's food comes prepackaged so we don't have to woory about what to feed.

Hi suki , i tired a few readys but I found the meats are very poor compared to going diy and more expensive.

Chicken carcases would be alright to start with along with maybe some finer minces to get her used to digesting the bone. You then need to add a variety of meats to rule out any allergies/intolerances and to work your way up to the richer meats such as beef and offal.

I have heard that quite a lot of dogs struggle with/can be allergic to pork so thats probably not a good starting point. Trotters are also very high in bone content and some dogs struggle to digest so much bone when they are not used to it so I would save those for later and keep them infrequent (pork is very high in fat)

If you were thinking of doing a raw diet properly, she will need more than just chicken carcus, trotters and tongue.