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11-13-2015, 09:43 AM | #496 | |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Indiana
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Mine are 4.7 and eat 1/4 cup in the morning and 1/4 cup in the evening.. Close to your recipe ingredients Balance it is a good supplement .... And I would add more meat and forget the canned...
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11-16-2015, 02:11 PM | #497 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: United Kingdom
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| Any veg with any protein? I see that there are lots of recipes for dog food with suggestions for amounts of protein and veg. They seem to suggest that you can mix any protein with any vegetables, you just need to get the quantities correct. I think this is right but the dietitian told me I cannot mix chicken, or other proteins with just any veg. It has to be specific vegetables??!! What do you think? I told him that I wanted to give my dog a selection of vegetables and not stick to the same ones. He said he could not help me with that as it would be 'too complicated and wants me to stick to the ones he gives me. He says to give her chicken, butternut squash and carrots plus BalanceIt - I can give her one egg a week as a treat. My dog is healthy normal dog. I feel that she should have a variety of veg and fruit in small amounts during the week. I have given her during a week a carrot, beans, squash, sweetpotato, put a sprig or two of parsley in her food, a few young spinach leaves, broccilli sprig, 2 slices of pear, a small piece of mango, small piece of melon. Obviously, I don't give them all to her in one day, but I just feel variety is healthy. Am I wrong? How can giving a dog the same three ingredients for the whole of it's life be healthy? I was also making her a health broth and giving her a cube of that a day, which she loved. but he doesn't want me to give her anything other than what he has told me to give her. |
12-01-2015, 04:22 PM | #498 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Santa Monica, CA USA
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| Lucy eating problem Lucy is 3 lbs and 10 years old, she had to have her teeth pulled and I am having a hard time not knowing what to feed her, any suggestions? Does anyone else have this problem? I have been feeding her chicken breast chopped up small or sometimes put it in my food processor, I know I could cook some peas and carrots and mix it all together, she eats so fast without chewing it, she throws it up a lot, I also give her a little sweet potato, but thats it. Can anyone help me out? I am afraid she isn't getting the vitamins she needs, and not getting proper nutrition. This is my first post and may have written this in the wrong place! |
12-07-2015, 02:44 AM | #499 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Ohio, USA
Posts: 17
| Lucy I also have a 3 pound Yorkie with no teeth! He is 8 years old. I boil ground chicken or turkey because it is easier to mash up into small pieces. I usually mix in sweet potato, and a green veggie with it. To make it easier, I cook a batch over the weekend and have enough for the whole week. I don't use a lot of ingredients because my little guy has a sensitive tummy. If Lucy was eating commercial food before, she can go back to that eventually. My vet said that their gums will harden up, so they can actually eat dry kibble again. You can soak it in water to soften it.
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01-15-2016, 07:06 PM | #500 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: wv
Posts: 46
| I have seen posted on the internet and in my vet's office that garlic is a no no for dogs....I have seen it as an ingredient in several recipes. I was wondering if anyone could help me get clarification? |
03-18-2016, 11:19 PM | #501 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: FL
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| try a tablespoon of plain kefir a day,given as a treat it cured my yorkies tummy problems |
03-19-2016, 05:19 AM | #502 | |
Resident Yorkie Nut Donating YT 20K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
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I home cook, but only with diets formulated by vet nutritionists. They always have supplements. I suggest the following sites that can assist you with home cooking. www.balanceit.com www.petdiets.com
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04-26-2016, 04:19 AM | #503 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Sevierville, TN
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| Yorkshire Gingerbread Ingredients: 225g butter 110g golden syrup 110g treacle 2 eggs 125ml milk 225g plain flour 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 1 tablepsoon ground ginger 225g dark brown sugar 225g oatmeal Method: Set the broiler to 170ºC and oil and line a tin around 20×30 cm. Put the margarine, syrup and treacle into a skillet and warmth tenderly until softened. Put the milk into a container and include the eggs. Beat together. Join the flour, bicarbonate of pop, ground ginger, sugar and cereal in a substantial dish. Pour in the spread blend and the milk blend and blend well. Prepare for around 45-55 minutes, until the parkin has risen and springs back when squeezed gently. It might soak in the center a bit. Permit to cool and afterward cut into squares or fingers. I remove the edges before cutting it into fingers. This keeps well in an impenetrable tin and will enhance over a couple days by getting stunning and sticky. Sometimes I order custom restaurant desserts like brownie bars online from few websites since I don't bake much and my Evie likes it. I just need to make suer she is getting proper nutrition. |
05-19-2016, 12:45 AM | #504 | |
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07-08-2016, 11:00 AM | #505 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Des Moines, IA
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| Donna from Iowa I am new at home cooking but will put what I feed down for all of you. I grind 3 cups of: chicken, turkey, pork etc. and put in large Dutch Oven, I then add about 2 cups of pork broth that I make myself over that. I chop up the ground meat really well. Then I use my tall blender and add frozen vegetables like: carrots, peas, squash etc. and some Kale or Collard Leaves, Dandelion root and all. (Wash it really well, use flower too and don't gather from where they spray) I add 1 apple 1 pear Or some other kind of fruit. Grind it all up and add it to the meat mixture. I usually add more meat broth as I need it. Then I add 1 cup wild rice or quoin or pasta and allow that to come to a boil and turn heat down and cook for about 30 mins. I also add Chia seeds about 1/2 cup or so. Sometimes I add green pepper to the mixture. I then let it cool. I have 3 Yorkies so I make a pretty big batch. I also add cottage cheese to their food in the evening or greek yogurt, I also give them 1/2 tsp. honey each day. I make pupcicles too: Greek Yogurt, ground blue berries frozen, and chia seeds and grind them up in my little blender and add to the greek yogurt. Put into ice cube trays and give them one every day or every other day. I change all my recopies off and on to give variety. I use Flax seed and oil, I use sesame oil, I use vegetable oil. My Yorkie's are Willie Bill, 13 years old and 10 1/2 lbs. 1/2 cup twice daily (Has allergies and heart problems, I cook mainly for him)and our Willow 10 years old, and 4 1/2 lbs. she gets 1/4 cup 2x"s daily and our little rescue 8 year old, 9 lbs. 1/2 cup 2X's daily. his name is Walley. I make my meat broth with pork, chicken or turkey bones my Willie Bill is allergic to Beef, eggs, lamb, potatoes white and sweet, tomatoes etc. So, I put my bones in a crock pot with 1=2 Tbs. Cider Vinegar and cover the bones with Spring Water. I cook for 24 hrs. but the last hr. or so I add a carrot, celery, parsley, thyme, rosemary out of my garden and let them cook. Then I turn off the heat and let it cool down, sometimes in my kitchen sink with a little water, then I strain it and put in ref. over night. Next day I skim off fat and then add 2 cups to sandwich freezer baggies and freeze. Hope someone trys it and their kids like it like mine do., I also give them supplement each day with their breakfast and fish 2X weekly. |
07-08-2016, 12:41 PM | #506 | |
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07-08-2016, 03:18 PM | #507 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Des Moines, IA
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| Thank you so much, I try very hard to give them what they need. I know for sure they were not getting it before. I used a top brand food for all three of my kids. I sat down one night and started putting the ingredients into the computer, especially the ones I couldn't even pronounce. I ran into one that taled about CARDBOARD and then ran into SAWDUST, I almost fell over, I quit reading. I know I may make mistakes but by golly I am not spending what I was for food from the dog to to treat their problems. All it did was make them worse. Never again will that happen to them. Again, thank you |
07-08-2016, 03:20 PM | #508 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Des Moines, IA
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| I grind 3 lbs. of meat NOT 3 cups. Sorry |
07-14-2016, 09:54 AM | #509 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Northern Ireland
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| Hi everyone, I am very new to homecooking. I did a batch of the following yesterday which is the first time cooking. 500g Turkey Breast Mince 500g Turkey Thigh Mince 150g Lamb Heart 900g Frozen Cauliflower & Broccoli 100g Frozen Peas 1kg Cooked White Basmalti Rice I used the water that the veg were cooked in to cook the rice added a tablespoon of coconut oil and freshly chopped parsley. I have two yorkies, wee Alfie who is 9 years and 10lbs and who has had his 2nd major op to remove a calcium oxalate stone, also my reason for homecooking and also my wee rescue 9 or 10 years (unfortunately not sure of her actually age) Penny and she is 8.5lbs and also has a sensitive tum. The vet had Alfie on a prescription diet after his first op to remove a stone 10 months ago and as I seen it didn't really do its job so told them I am going down this route. I have to be careful as there is foods that are high oxalating foods, parsley is one which I added to the recipe above but it was very little and any I see in the food I'll pick out. I just need to get them on supplements but I also can't give Alfie certain vitamins as they are oxalate producing such as Vitamin C and D. I am justill wondering has anyone else have babies prone to stones and is homecooking?
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07-23-2016, 09:04 AM | #510 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Des Moines, IA
Posts: 24
| Nancy Since the last time I wrote on the form I have added 1,000 mg. of Calcium to each lb. of food I make. Even Dr. Judy Morgan said to do that. From where I was standing I thought that was so much since they take supplements too. But, out voted and will do it. I also heard that oxalates were bad for Yorkie's, hard on their Kidneys I guess and to much can cause stones. I have been giving about 2 cups of Kale & Baby spinach (together) I had never heard of that and DON'T want to cause problems. I think everything has them, cooking gets a lot of those out of the food. If anyone has a list please post them so everyone will know which is the highest, so we can cook them longer. I think carrots are high too and I feed my kids carrots all the time. Hope you are having fun Nancy, it is great to see your kids eat something you know is CLEAN, SAFE, NO PRESERVES, NO BEAKS,FEET,GUTS ETC. It's just good to know, Wild dogs have to eat those things but our dogs don't. God Bless. Donna |
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