I started one of the dogs on home cooked. He has recently been diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis. We tried Natural Balance Potato & Duck which has 10% fat and no good, he still had episodes. Vet suggested prescription food or homemade and photocopied some recipes from a book by Hilary's Blend.
We've decided to go the home cooked before doing the prescription and went for the blandest recipe to start with. I'm just concerned I didn't do it right. Does anyone have experience in doing this type of diet?
This is the recipe:
1 tsp cod liver oil
1/2 tsp safflower oil
470g chicken breast
3 3/4 cups brown rice
2 scoops Hilary's Blend supplement
Poach chicken, dice finely. Prepare rice according to package to yield 3 3/4 cups of cooked rice. Sprinkle Hilary's Blend on rice and mix all ingredients together.
A dog his size (40lbs) gets 653g of food a day. It adds up the total number of grams of food on one side of the page once it's cooked to 1000g If he's getting 653g a day shouldn't this have made only a day and a bit worth of food? When I portioned it out I had 3 days worth of food. And there was a heck of a lot of rice!
I added in the cod liver oil and safflower oil into the big bowl and mixed it in all together but it doesn't seem like it would mix evenly? Should I be adding those to each portion? Did I misunderstand? I don't know if I'm over thinking this or what but it's stressing me out and ALMOST making me want to suck it up and do the prescription food.
We've decided to go the home cooked before doing the prescription and went for the blandest recipe to start with. I'm just concerned I didn't do it right. Does anyone have experience in doing this type of diet?
This is the recipe:
1 tsp cod liver oil
1/2 tsp safflower oil
470g chicken breast
3 3/4 cups brown rice
2 scoops Hilary's Blend supplement
Poach chicken, dice finely. Prepare rice according to package to yield 3 3/4 cups of cooked rice. Sprinkle Hilary's Blend on rice and mix all ingredients together.
A dog his size (40lbs) gets 653g of food a day. It adds up the total number of grams of food on one side of the page once it's cooked to 1000g If he's getting 653g a day shouldn't this have made only a day and a bit worth of food? When I portioned it out I had 3 days worth of food. And there was a heck of a lot of rice!
I added in the cod liver oil and safflower oil into the big bowl and mixed it in all together but it doesn't seem like it would mix evenly? Should I be adding those to each portion? Did I misunderstand? I don't know if I'm over thinking this or what but it's stressing me out and ALMOST making me want to suck it up and do the prescription food.
