I was wondering, since there are quite a few raw feeders on the board. What kind of raw model do you follow? Do you feed veggies or grains? Why or why not?
I just started raw. I feed each dog some raw meat with bone once a day, 6 days a week. Right now it's chicken quarters (with some backbone meat attatched), and occassionally some meaty beef soup bones. I hope to do more variety once I'm sure they're used to it.
For one meal a week, I've made a cooked brew. It's about 65% assorted veggies (carrots, peas, spinach and yellow squash this week), and the rest includes ground chicken livers, gizzards and hearts, and eggs. I mix it with about 1 cup of rice for each dog.
I do it this way because I wanted to give my boys veggies, but I think that the 40% recommended by one raw model was rather excessive. And cooking makes it digestible for dogs. I put the rice in because, although people are still debating whether it does any good, I figure it does no harm.
I just started raw. I feed each dog some raw meat with bone once a day, 6 days a week. Right now it's chicken quarters (with some backbone meat attatched), and occassionally some meaty beef soup bones. I hope to do more variety once I'm sure they're used to it.
For one meal a week, I've made a cooked brew. It's about 65% assorted veggies (carrots, peas, spinach and yellow squash this week), and the rest includes ground chicken livers, gizzards and hearts, and eggs. I mix it with about 1 cup of rice for each dog.
I do it this way because I wanted to give my boys veggies, but I think that the 40% recommended by one raw model was rather excessive. And cooking makes it digestible for dogs. I put the rice in because, although people are still debating whether it does any good, I figure it does no harm.