I have been researching raw for a while now and we are switching as early as next week! YAY! I'm so excited. We are going to start with chicken thighs, bone in, skin off. I'll see how they go on that, and then maybe in a few days add the skin.
Sounds like you're off to a great start!
I do have a few questions..
Should i weigh the meat I feed them? I was thinking I would throw one thigh for one dog and let them go on it, and give fillet later in the day.
That sounds fine. I weighed mine at the beginning so I had more of a feel for how much the amount they eat should be. Once I knew about how much that looked like, I stopped weighing. Now I just eyeball and adjust based on how they are doing.
Also, since I am going shopping for the meat this week, what else should I get aside from chicken thighs, breast, legs? Should I get heart, gizzards? Is it okay to feed hearts and gizzards the 1st few days, since it is considered muscle meat, not organs?
Mine have had absolutely no problem with gizzards and hearts. Liver I have to be more careful of.
Since I cannot afford organic, I was thinking to supplement with salmon oil. But I found out salmon oil is very hard to find here, and if I can find it I suspect it'd be very expensive, as cod liver oil is already through the roof. I simply cannot afford it. So, I found out I could feed fish instead of supplementing. What kinda fish is good and high in omega 3 and 6, and should I give them the bones or just filleted fish??
I can't help you much here. I don't feed organic either and honestly, mine aren't real big fish lovers. I keep saying I need to try a different kind of fish but haven't done that yet. When I add fish oil, I just break open one of my fish oil capsules and pour over their meat. And I don't know which fish would be high in omega 3 & 6. Sorry I'm not much help there!
Good luck and keep us posted! 