My little Rowdy is skinny too. He was sick in Sept and lost some weight and I worried a lot about him. I too, can feel his backbone and ribs. I free feed him and he does eat, but probably not a lot. I also feed him toddler (human) chicken sticks once or twice a day. And I just made him some satin balls today. I'll include the recipie, but some here say it is too fatty for them - I don't know, if you google satin balls, it seems to be OK. Anyway, I make it with 10% fat hamburger and don't put in the extra oil. He loves it and will usually eat them when he might not be eating anything else. It does put weight on him - I don't give them to him all the time, just when I think he needs some weight.
This recipie makes A LOT - tonight I cut it by 1/4 and made a very small amount.
Satin Balls Half Recipe -- recommended amount to mix up
5 lbs cheap hamburger (for high fat %)
1/2 large box Total cereal (about 6 cups cereal)
1/2 large box uncooked oatmeal (about 7.5 cups oats)
5 raw eggs
1/2 of 15oz jar wheat germ (about 2 cups)
5 packages Knox unflavored gelatin
5/8 cup vegetable oil (this is pretty close to 2/3 cup)
5/8 cup unsulphered molasses
pinch of salt
Take all dry ingredients and place in a bowl. Crunch up the total cereal, and then pour all the other dry ingredients over it. In a another large bowl put the hamburger meat and the wet ingredients. Mix each bowl well, then mix together. Mix just like you would a meatloaf. Roll into small balls. The original recipie says that the meat balls are supposed to be fed raw – but I cook mine – about 5-7 minutes (depending on the size of the ball I make) in a 350 oven. Then I put the balls in a freezer bag and store them flat in the freezer (meaning that I only put a few balls into each bag so that the balls lie flat and don’t stick together so that I can take one or two out at a time as I need them). I take out a bag or just some balls when I need them and heat a few seconds in the microwave.
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