feeding raw - Page 1

We went thru pano with our Czech lines boy, also very large. It finally resolved itself at about 13 months. We feed a mix of raw (leg/thigh quarters and organ meats/cooked vegetable) and some kibble diet.  Their growth is just so darn fast!


I'm not familiar yet with PDB boards, but there is a great very active raw board at

http://bbs.sitstay.com/postlist.php?Cat=1,2,3,4,9&Board=rawdiet

Go to yahoo raw feeding group you will find a lot of people that will guide you in the right direction, I feed pray mode, mostly chicken.

Pharaoh eats Rocky chicken quarters and organ meat that comes with it (heart, gizzards, liver etc).  I buy whole chickens  when they are on sale and have the butcher cut them into four parts with the big table saw. He puts the organs/necks into a bag.  

I put a few days worth in a container in the fridge and bag each quarter separately and put them in the freezer.  Into each bag I put a little of the organ meat.

In the morning he gets a chicken quarter,.( I pump salmon oil onto the chicken) a scoop full of Body Guard supplement (mixed into either an egg yolk or a bit of Instinct chicken canned food). 

In the evening he gets another chicken quarter or drumbsticks (with salmon oil) and  1 cup of Instinct Chicken kibble soaked in meat juice or water, with a scoop of Show Stopper mixed into the soaked kibble.

Good luck with your research. 

Michele and Pharaoh

do you guys feed it at room temp or you guys heat it up

Chicken quatered and Pork ribs right out of the fridge. Mine loves cruching the bones.

No heat and definitely no defrosting in the microwave......that will make the bones brittle and splinter and kill your dog.

If you want to speed up defrosting, put it in warm water, leave it out on the counter over night.

according to some of the charts online my dog wieghs about 85lbs so i should feed about 2.5lbs of raw food per day...should i feed it all at once or split it up in 2.. since im just starting the raw food diet i can feed him a half chicken for a couple of weeks until he gets used to it ..then start introducing other protiens to his meal.. i think im also going to supplement with some fish oil daily..

i wish i'd known about raw feeding when angus was young - it may have helped. he had so many episodes of pano i can't recall them all. our female, who is either a mali or mali/gsd (rescue) was VERY finicky until i switched them to raw. they are both very healthy and happy now. i feed 2x a day. i still am learning from older postings on raw feeding, but i think it is absolutely worth it. look into old threads about it. there is a lot of good advice.

Is it safe to give them the raw stuff FROZEN??  the other day I gave my adult girl a frozen turkey neck and now I am wondering if it being frozen - does it make the bones brittle?!  I do give her big meaty femur & knuckle bones frozen, but of course those she just doesn't chomp down like she does the turkey necks.  Just want to make sure I'm doing this safe ...