Darla’s Raw Food Dog Food
Recipe
Makes 30 cups – We have fed this for 18 years over 4 –
5 generations of shelties with great results!
1 lb frozen veggies – mix peas, carrots, limas,
broccoli, cauliflower, etc…or frozen mixed veggies.
1 lb frozen green beans
5 lbs of 30% or 23 % ”fat” ground beef
1/3 C Alfalfa powder
1/3 C kelp powder
1/3 C Vitamin C powder
2 petals from clove of garlic
¾ to 1 gallon of spring water
1/2 cup cold-pressed, organic flaxseed oil
1/2 C human-grade bone meal
Puree the vegetables in a food processor or blender to
very pulverized consistency. Add water as you puree to make a thin,
soup-like mixture (really crushed up). While pureeing the veggies add
about 2 little petals of a clove of
fresh garlic, and
puree the garlic with the veggies. Put the mixture in big stock pot
or similar big container.
Add the raw meat and mix well with a potato masher,
adding water to make it like thick chili {note:} for the 2lb/5lb
batch we add 3/4 to 1 gallon of spring water.]
Add 1/3 C of each Alfalfa powder, kelp powder and
Vitamin C powder to the mix.
Add 1/3 C organic flaxseed oil (refrigerated type,
which is cold pressed) to the mix.
Add ½ C Human grade bone meal
Mix with potato masher.
Freeze in serving-size containers depending on the
number of meals per dog and the number of dogs. Also freeze the
chicken necks in containers with what is one day’s feeding amount, if
you are feeding raw chicken necks. Remove all the skin you can from
the necks...it's way to fatty for the dogs.
Thaw and feed... do not warm or microwave, they eat it
cold, and they eat it raw, and they love it!
An 18-22lb dog would get ½ C of the mix and 2-3 thawed
raw chicken necks per day. A 30 lb dog would get one cup of the mix
and 4-6 chicken necks a day. You can feed just the mix twice a day if
you are not feeding chicken necks, but be sure to add bone meal. For
variety you can top with one of these at mealtime: canned sardines, or
chopped raw chicken liver/chopped raw chicken hearts or a raw, beaten
egg. If they don't eat it all in 20 minutes pick it up and
refrigerate until the next meal.
And it's so good
for them that you can just switch from the old crap...(dry) to fresh
food... No need to mix with the old like when you change "brands" of
dog food.
Please see:http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/7244/barf.html
NOTE:
Chicken necks must be fed raw, not cooked.
Cooking makes the bones splinter and will hurt the dog. Raw chicken
necks properly handled are wonderful for the dogs and their teeth
Add to diet for an average sized sheltie with cancer:
1/4C cottage cheese fed with meal or
separately
1 tsp additional flax seed oil
with meal
SOURCES:
Vitamins:
http://www.b-naturals.com/herbs.htm
Alfalfa powder and kelp powder:
both are great sources of all the vitamins and minerals needed.
http://www.atlanticspice.com
When you get to the website click on
"botanicals".
On page 1
find #231 Alfalfa powder, 1 lb.
On page 2 is #107 kelp powder 1 lb.
Cost for both is less than $5.00
Bone meal:
This is calcium. Available from a heath food store, or in bulk from:
www.nutritiongeeks.com, 10lb for 49.95. If you don’t
feed the raw chicken necks (which is OK) you MUST
add 1 teaspoon of human grade bone meal to each feeding - or - put 1/2
cup in each big batch.
