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09-27-2009, 10:15 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member | Homecooking Diet: Supplements Hello Yorkie Talkers! This question is for any of you who feed a homecooked diet and supplement it with something. I have started homecooking for Meg thanks to a couple recipes from Crystal and Ellie May (thanks! ) and so far it's going well. I've been trying to decide what supplement I should order to round out Meg's diet. My top 3 choices are Balance IT, Wysong's Call of the Wild, and The Missing Link Canine Formula. This home-cooking/raw website says that Balance IT is meant to balance a more high-carb/low-protein diet and that Call of the Wild is meant to balance a high-protein diet, but I don't want to make a decision based on something I read online, especially since I have no idea what this person's credentials are. So.... do any of you have first-hand experience using one of these supplements? Meg's diet is about 60% meat, 25% veg, and 25% starch (currently rice).
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09-28-2009, 03:55 AM | #2 |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| Missing Link can't be used by itself to balance a homemade recipe. It isn't meant as a supplement for this, so other things would have to be added. I will look at the Wysong site and give my opinion (for what it's worth, lol), but I think people on the site where you read this probably don't have a clue what they are talking about. The only reason I can say that is Balance IT's own site gives high protein recipe examples. You can use any supplement you like while homecooking, but over 90% of the time, you'll have to add a certain amount of at least one or two other things to balance everything. Oh, I used to use Missing Link also. Then I learned that I was doing it the wrong way.
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09-28-2009, 04:02 AM | #3 |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| The Wysong looks a bit more promising, but I'd talk to a nutritionist about it, especially since you will need to know how much to use per recipe and such. Just giving a certain amount per day wouldn't be accurate because that isn't how vtamins and minerals are calculated in the world of dog food. Instead, it is so many vitamins for so much food eaten. I couldn't see how many mg of calcium with this supp or anything, so I have no idea if it is even close to okay. And there is garlic in this one. Not something I'd choose personally, but then I wouldn't choose menadione in BalanceIT either.
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09-29-2009, 03:24 AM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member | I agree that I need to meet with a nutritionist. These are the times when it's more frustrating than it usually is to live overseas. There is no one here that I can talk to, and I do'nt want to go blindly into a phone consultation with someone I read about online. Ugh.... Thanks AGAIN for your help, Crystal!
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09-29-2009, 05:16 AM | #5 |
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| we feed raw home made and use bone meal and potassium in it from iherb.com. |
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