Delivery day!!!! - lots of photos :)

We love delivery day here >

Chance examining the boxes

Hmmm what's in here mum

mmmm

I like this one mum

So we got
chicken wings

beef spleen chunks

chicken carcasses

beef bones

the big bag of bones

lamb bones

tripe chunks

pork tongues

venison chunks

minced tripe and heart

pork bones

venison bones

Wow Ella, it looks great

Oh and i forgot one of our very full freezers

Great pics
Blue's order comes Monday.
Good to see some that I have had yet. Would loved to have tried the venison bones but they had none last time. I got him venison mean but he refuses to eat it so I'm giving it to the dog trainer

Ohhhh lucky pooch's!

The boys ADORE venison anything! no way would they turn it down haha!

Wow!!

Your dogs are like me when it comes to food. No good asking them if it's good cos like me everythings good
Blue is a fussy bugger. He won't eat mince either so restricts me to just the chunks. So blue has chicken/beef/tripe/liver/kidney & spleen chunks coming Monday. Have you tried the pancreas chunks from there? Twice as expensive but gonna try on the next order

Yes i have had the pancreas chunks but i don't buy them often as they are expensive but the boys enjoyed them like everything else

Wow!! I really wish we had these kind of services in Australia!! (and that I had a bigger freezer lol)

Wow ella where do you get all this stuff form and would it be rude of me to ask what sort of price are you paying.. including del. Please..

pag wrote:Wow ella where do you get all this stuff form and would it be rude of me to ask what sort of price are you paying.. including del. Please..

No Problem

It's from Durham animal feeds and cost £86 so was free delivery

Lucky boys!!! *jealous*

ella wrote:

pag wrote:Wow ella where do you get all this stuff form and would it be rude of me to ask what sort of price are you paying.. including del. Please..

No Problem

It's from Durham animal feeds and cost £86 so was free delivery

Do they have a website to order or is it just over the phone.. do they deliver outside of Durham?

pag wrote:

ella wrote:

pag wrote:Wow ella where do you get all this stuff form and would it be rude of me to ask what sort of price are you paying.. including del. Please..

No Problem

It's from Durham animal feeds and cost £86 so was free delivery

Do they have a website to order or is it just over the phone.. do they deliver outside of Durham?

Well i'm in Sheffield so yes they deliver outside

I always order online, as they have certain dates they deliver to each area

http://www.daf-petfood.co.uk/

Looks good! You obviously have more than one freezer unlike me, my two just got a mini version of that delivery lol got the pancreas still to try them on it

i have 2 chest freezers and the freezer bit above one of the fridges

The boys enjoyed the pancreas but it's to expansive to buy it everytime

Ella, how many months will that do the boys for?

Thanks for that, will deffo take a look.

RoxysMum wrote:Ella, how many months will that do the boys for?

About 5-6 months

sorry to be dim, but what classes as offal that you would feed once a week,
i know liver kindey and heart

but what about spleen, tongue and the things like venison chunks ?

Liver, kidney, brain, spleen, sweatbread are all offal

Heart, tongue, venison chunks are all meat

The venison chunks are just chunks of meat

Ahh thank you :-)
What is sweatbread ? Never heard of that before

How often do you give actual chunks of meat like the venison chunks ?

Would you mind giving some examples of the kind f meals you have fed from this order

Do you give a bone a day from like te lamb pork or big bone bag and then accessorise around it ?
I plan to get more in to bones on my next order :-) xx

sweatbread is thymus gland

I give whole animals or chunks of meat, instead of mince like you have been doing. I try and keep mince as a very little part of their diet

I give some sort of bone each day yes as that suits the boys.

I actually try and feed whole animals the most, OR use bones and whole chunks of meat to mimic that.

Some of the boys meals over the past week for you (fed once a day)

pork tongue chunk, chicken wing and carcass

kidney, tripe/heart mince and lamb bones

pork bone and beef spleen chunk

Ahh thank you those pictures wer very helpful :-)
They have gone from trip mince from the pet shop
To tripe and chicken mince from daf to now no mince at all :-)
This order I opted for lire next one I think I will go for kidney or spleen lol
And which type of bone would you say ha te most meat on them as I want to add some bones in on my next order and some carcasses too :-)

Erm personally the venison bones are the meatiest BUT you need to work through the meats if you haven't yet as venison is a very rich red meat. So go through the lamb/pork bones first

ok thanks for the suggestion

Ella, maybe you can help - I am about to move house and want to get a freezer that can cope with all the raw food I feed rupert. Plus all the food I feed myself. I was thinking of getting a normal fridge and then a tall larder freezer. What do you think would work best. At the moment I have a standard fridge freezer but it is always a mess or stuffed too full.

I use chest freezers I find them easier and have 2 for the boys food.

Eventually I'd love a huge chest freezer and do away with smaller ones but no room at the minute

Wow that's a lot of meat must cost a fortune, boys seem to love delivery day too:D

Nope cheaper then buying bags of dry

Ella, can I just ask, I have been reading a lot on raw pray model lately and this is what I am aiming for with Max, however the thing I wonder is about the 80:10:10 ratios and the bone content. I know that these are not exact and bone can be a bit more and especially in the beginning but it seems like you and a lot of other people I see feed a fair bit more bone than 10%, is there a reason for this and what do you recommend in regards to this?

Yep I feed alot more then the 10% as do most people

If you think about a whole animal alot of the time it is more then 10% bone, like rabbits very boney.

I obviously feed prey model and they get as many whole animals as I can get, the ratios just sort themselves out, and they are balanced over about 2-3 months not each day

I'm same. I feed more than 10% bone. Most days I feed 200-400g meat and 100-200g of bone, so that more like 33%. But without sounding disgusting you can tell when they have had too much bone as there number 2 is a piece of white chalk so the next day just feed meat to balance it out

Thanks guys!
So it doesn't really matter if I mix a meal bone and meaty meat or if I feed one meal just meaty meat and one meal bony meat? As long as it kinda balances out in the end?

Can I also ask, what are good "meaty meats" to get? Most things I have so far are quite boney.

I would want to feed whole animals eventually but my housemate would kill me if she found whole animals in our freezer lol. I think she is struggling as it is with all the raw meat lol. We also live in a apartment with no backyard so everything has to be fed inside. So for the time being I have to try and put the ratios together myself with parts of the animal.

If we leave whole animals aside as thats self explanatory...

What the boys get is: 1 meal a day -

Some sort of boneless meat i.e mince, boneless chunks etc etc
Some sort of bone in meat

Once a week i swap the boneless meat for offal i.e liver one week, kidney etc

and thats literally it

For boneless meat i give things like, heart, tongue, tripe, meat chunks all these are boneless

ella wrote:If we leave whole animals aside as thats self explanatory...

What the boys get is: 1 meal a day -

Some sort of boneless meat i.e mince, boneless chunks etc etc
Some sort of bone in meat

Once a week i swap the boneless meat for offal i.e liver one week, kidney etc

and thats literally it

For boneless meat i give things like, heart, tongue, tripe, meat chunks all these are boneless

Alright, yep it seems easier and easier the more I get into it! Still introducing meats one by one so not worrying too much about ratios just yet!
Sorry just thought about one more thing that I have read different things about. I give fish oil tablets since that seems to be recommended, but I have read that fish oil can lead to vitamin e deficiency and that you should supplement with vitamin e because of this (I have also read that this is not true though). What do you think? I read about a dog dying from vitamin e deficiency because of this so that got me a bit worried?

Oh i DO supplement with vitamin E

I alternate fish body oil with salmon oil, just to mix it up, but i do give vitamin e capsules. Not everytime i give them the oil but maybe every 3rd time

ella wrote:Oh i DO supplement with vitamin E

I alternate fish body oil with salmon oil, just to mix it up, but i do give vitamin e capsules. Not everytime i give them the oil but maybe every 3rd time

Perfect thank you! I probably rather give them even if they do nothing than being concerned about it!