Raw feeding, prey-model diet

I think this an interesting topic, and one that seems heavily debated. Anyone use(d) a raw diet? A whole-prey model? IE frozen/thawed rodents like a reptile keeper might use, livestock, roadkill, etc.

I've never applied this myself, but I'm looking into it.

 

Lots of people feed raw, Meaty bones, organs ec. I did for a bit but I found it to be a pain in the ass. I buy scrap pork stewing meat freeze it for a couple days and add it to good dry kibble (orijen six fish).

 

Yeah, I figured there would be a lot of members that could speak on it. I say that because one thing I noticed in reading through old threads is the absence of the psycho liberal type that loves to jump down people's throats for promoting this sort of thing.

 

Really notice a increase in performance with a raw diet and a raw diet with rf1 but with rf1 the dog seem to put on alot of muscle.

 

I have heard good thing about RF1. I use Nuvet. I think I will try it out in the spring.

 

I'm weaning a litter of six pups onto a raw diet. They are 4 weeks old and love it! They get so excited to see me lol

 

Hmm, what do you mean by this?

 

I agree 100% about the kibble drying out the dog. When I fed raw my dog would rarely drink on dry kibble he drinks like a fish. I do a combination of the two now just because I found 100% raw to be a pain in the ass. My dog has beef allergies so that's why I choose fish and pork he does well on it.

 

I've always wanted to try, but the challenges and expense have pushed it back. I think the advantages sound wonderful, though!

 

You can feed 10 dogs on $25 dollars a week feeding twice a day real food!

 

Maybe where your at. Lol. I've never been able to feed raw cheaper than kibble and I've tried it every which way over a 15 year time frame. Unless you have a very good low cost wholesaler of meat, which I've never been able to find around me, it just don't work out money wise. Take into the consideration of the time it takes to prepare and what ones time is worth and it's always cost me much more to feed raw. It costs me almost double to feed raw than it does feeding a high quality kibble. Low cost raw depends on where your at and what low cost meat source you have access too.

 

It depends what kind of kibble you give, if you give kibble whith high grain% low meat% and other fillers than everything what's going in front, than almost everything is comming out from the back.
Also you've to give more of it, so at the end not that cheap.

I also give raw and kibble, but that isn't a raw prey model and also not biologic, it's grinded meat without gluten and chemicals (for color and conserve) buy it in de supermarket € 0.65 400 gr.

The kibble i give is Acana Sport & Agility high meat, protine, fat%, low in carbon.
When important for you id that the ingredients are biological enz..
My dogs also have the luck that they get good quality meat like beef, chicken, enz.
I get it for free here in the supermarket when the meat is on the date (not expired)

 

First a happy ,healthy new year to all and your bulldogs.
@ slim... I feed my guy venison for the first time recently...he loved it. In your experience feeding venison did you notice a difference in body tone and energy? Curious because of the higher creatine in the venison.

Thanks

 

I have also been told that deer meat has up to 10x the amount of creatine than domestic beef. I have fed strictly deer in the fall and have noticed no difference in performance but I also never ''tested'' the dog on it.

 

Please draw this out... that seems pretty cheap

 

About the same way of doing things here. Since I'm neither a biologist or nutritionist, I'm afraid there would be too many flaws in my raw diet. So meat and kibble is what she gets (sometimes some raw when I strike a bargain). And that is without taking into account that a dog's body and digestion has probably evolved away from strictly pray nutrition. At least a bit.