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Originally Posted by Cinq1964  I feed him 2 meals a day consisting of: First Meal: 85% beef or Turkey meat, 15% liver or gizzard. Second Meal: 95% beef or Turkey and 5% liver or gizzard. He eats turkey neck bone, drumstick or thigh bone every other day. About 3 to 4 in. long.
I told her I would not feed commercial food. She suggested this Homemade diet. Starting with cream of wheat, cottage cheese, cooked egg, yeast, sugar veg. oil, potassium chloride, dicalcium phophate and calcium carbonate. Then ground round, cooked rice, oil, dicalcium phosphate and a vitamin-mineral supplement. All cooked.
He poops once a day. He has had soft stool more runny since I changed to Prey Model. Thanks! |
The homecooked recipe that your vet recommended is the recipe that Hill's came up with to be the equivilent to one of their prescription diets. My vet gave a print off with ALL of the home cooked verison of the prescription diets.
Dr. Amy and I talk extensively about feeding .... and food problems - both those caused by commerical diets and by homecooked ones. She does not recommend raw food. From her medical standpoint - domestic dogs are NOT the same animal as a wild dog and their nutrient requirements are different. The digestive system of the dogs have evolved over the years to accomodate cooked food - feeding raw can cause just as many digestive problems as feeding cooked....
I guess it comes down to finding what works for you and your kids. At Dr. Amy's recommendation, I won't feed raw, but I am working towards homecooking - working on acquiring a good source of organic protein - venison and I am STILL trying to find some hens for fresh free-range chicken eggs.