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03-24-2007, 09:33 PM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: TN
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| feeding white rice and boiled chicken I read around that you can feed your yorkie white rice and boiled chicken (no added ingredients) ...instead of their own dog food, right? my puppy is almost 4 mts, and we feed him science diet b/c the vet recommanded it. But my mom fed him white rice and chicken yesterday. Now, he wont even go near his own food!! is it okie to feed him white rice and chicken from now on? |
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03-24-2007, 10:20 PM | #2 | |
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this site is very very helpful and many people on here are very caring and smart. it would be the best thing to do is to make your own. i cant thank them enough. below is what i copied and pasted for you At first, feed 1/3 protein, 1/3 veg, and 1/3 grain or startchy veg. It's a good time to go grain-free now. Feed what you eat, steak, hamburger, chicken, eggs, fish, peas, carrots, squash, bok-choy, yams, potatoes, stringbeans, oatmeal, brown rice, lentils, beans, pumpkin, cinnamon, cod liver oil, olive oil, sunflower oil. Dogs do not have the necessary enzyme to digest milk, so if you want to try yogurt or cottage cheese, or cheese, do it very sparingly. To judge amount to feed, try to equal what was in his bowl. Cook all fish and hamburger and pork. Steak meats can be fed raw. Chicken can be fed raw. Vegs have to be grated or sliced very fine. They can be steamed. Overcooking destroys nutrients. All grains must be very well cooked. Soft. Dogs do not need grains and they are not easily digested. I use only brown rice cakes as a treat. I use lentils, beans, peas, and potatoes. Dogs can have fruit. But, not much. Sugar feeds yeast. I give an excellent quality vitamin/mineral/amino-acid complex everyday. Get the best vitamin you can. Calcium is very important. I wash fresh eggshells, dry them, and when I have about a dozen, I bake them in my oven for 10 mins. at 350 degrees to kill any bacteria, then I grind them in a coffee grinder and store in fridge. I use 1/4 tsp each day, but my guys are big, 14 and 20 lbs! For treats, I make my own "cookies" from non-grain flour, pumpkin, cinnamon, banannas, eggs, oil, and water. I had no recipe, I just experimented. They love them. Next time, I'm using tapioca flour. Look in your organic market. Organic everything is best. I put my time in doing my research. Start on the web. Amazon has great books. Look under natural pet care, holistic pet care, feeding natural, feeding raw, etc. You'll feel sooooooo much better doing this. They will love it. My guys never turn down food. They get so excited about what's to eat, they start whining and licking me. Variety of foods over time is the answer. There are so many good supplements out there. I used to give too many at first. I cut them all out except for vitamins, calcium, and ground flaxseed meal. Remember, they need omega 3, from fish oils or flaxseed oil or meal. They digest proteins and fats best. So, use oils at each meal. Whole Dog Journal is a great resource, and only 20 dollars a year for a subscription. This morning they ate sardines with bones, cooked chopped kale, grated carrots, olive oil, small amount of pureed pumpkin to mix with vit, calcium, and flax, and a bit of brown rice cake. Wesley will not drink plain water, so I put hamburger in distilled water and simmer to get broth. My guys never drank tap water. Only spring and distilled. Congratulations and best wishes. It will take a month or so to make it effortless, but don't give up. You'll have furbabies in the best of health! | |
03-25-2007, 06:16 AM | #3 | |
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If it were me...unless your furbaby has digestive problems, I probably wouldn't just give him rice and chicken. They need their kibbles, especially to help with their teeth. There are many threads on here about different dog foods..just type dog food in search and it will bring them up.
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03-25-2007, 06:26 AM | #4 |
No Longer a Member | There is no calcium source in the chicken and rice. There is a group at dogster for homecooking that has some tips on putting together a nutritionally complete home cooked diet. I found that there are so many things to consider that I would have never thought of. |
03-25-2007, 06:31 AM | #5 |
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| Yup, you do have to remember to make their meals 'balanced'. Why don't you post some of that info from the dogster site on here to help YTers out
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03-25-2007, 06:44 AM | #6 | |
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There's so much to post. It is an entire forum, but anyone can join http://www.dogster.com/group/Home_co...nd_recipes-779 I recently posted a question (and recipe) about iron requirements, and there is a good discussion in that thread on all the nutrition values. So look for that thread in that group. | |
03-25-2007, 06:49 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Salt Lake City, UT
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| Thanks for the link. Maybe one day we can start our own forum on home cooking
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03-25-2007, 06:51 AM | #8 |
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| An excellent source of calcium is to add yogurt. I use organic with 6 live, active cultures. This helps keep the level of probiotics in their GI tracts good and helps with calcium intake! Yogurt is not produced in the same manner as milk and cheese and doesn't get digested the same way, so many with lactose tolerance issues can successfully use yogurt. I would also add that white rice is not the best for your pup. Traditional white rice (even the old-fashioned stove cooked kind) is processed to the hilt so that what is left is basically just starch -no real good ingredients. Brown rice is much better, but make sure it is the kind you really have to cook - not the instant or boil-in-bag. To ensure the rice kernel opens up to reveal the good stuff, it is best to soak the rice for at least 3 hours before you cook it.
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