Have I finally found good feed??

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Heh, yes they do. My dogs live like kings too, I no longer make special food for them, they just eat what we eat. Bountiful harvest. Here's their typical breakfast - Halibut sauteed in ghee, scrambled eggs with sea lettuce and fresh oregano, potatoes with fresh parsley, wild berry kefir yogurt, topped with dried kefir cheese. The only thing purchased is the milk to feed my kefir grains. Life is good.

Is that enough meat to feed dogs? From my understanding, they do best if as much of their calories as possible come from animal sources, especially meat, organs, and bones

 

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Is that enough meat to feed dogs? From my understanding, they do best if as much of their calories as possible come from animal sources, especially meat, organs, and bones

They eat several meals per day, if they have seafood in the morning, they have red meat in the evening. They get freeze dried organ meat throughout the day because I use them as training treats. They have a balance of calcium/phosphorus. When I fed raw, which we did for a few years, they ate raw bones, but for us, we found it unsustainable as we don't have the freezer space to store carcasses for 4 large dogs and you can't freeze dry bones. How many deer carcasses can fit in the freezer? Not enough. Dogs under 5 are usually good with raw bone, we only have one currently under 5, over 10 and they lose interest in eating raw bones. YMMD. Meat rabbits are okay, it's just harder to slaughter bunnies They do eat whole chicken about once a week. Eggs for the dogs are scrambled with the ground shells, salmon and herring for the dogs and poultry are canned with bones intact. We freeze dry raw salmon fillets and herring is freeze dried with head and tail removed. Their energy needs are derived mainly from fat. We have one dog that requires between 8-10k calories per day to maintain body weight, 3 meals per day, about 30% or more of the necessary calories come from animal fat. For me currently, it's more about meeting their ME and nutritional requirements throughout the week, rather than simply meat, organs, bone every day.