Dog Food Recipe

I found this home-made dog food recipe. Does is look good or bad?



Cook Time:15 min
Level: Easy
Yield: this recipe serves 1 large dog for a month



Ingredients
2 pounds ground turkey
3/4 ground beef
2 tablespoons bone meal
1 tablespoon fenugreek
1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves, use less if dried
1/4 cup marigold petals
1 cup roughly chopped parsley leaves
2 apples, or 8 ounces fruit, no grapes or raisins, roughly chopped
1 squash, roughly chopped
2 carrots, roughly chopped
1 cup broccoli florets
1 cup dandelion greens
1/2 pound haddock, chopped into 1-inch squares
1/4 pound beef heart, chopped into 1-inch squares
1/4 pound liver, chopped into 1-inch squares
1/4 pound kidney, chopped into 1-inch squares
1/4 pound gizzards, chopped into 1-inch squares
1/4 pound beef fat, chopped into 1-inch squares
4 eggs
1/2 cup olive oil
4 cloves pressed garlic
1/2 cup dried organic seaweed, soaked and strained to remove the salt
2 cups chicken or beef stock, optional
Directions
Put ground turkey and beef into a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl combine bone meal, fenugreek, rosemary, marigold petals, and parsley, and mix well. Combine with the meat mixture. Use a food processor to grate apples, squash, and carrots. Add broccoli florets and dandelion greens and mix well. Add to the meat mixture. Combine haddock, beef heart, liver, kidney, gizzards, and beef fat and mix well. Add to the meat mixture. Combine eggs, olive oil, pressed garlic, and seaweed and mix well. Add to the meat mixture and thoroughly mix all the ingredients with your hands.

Recipe can be served as is to dogs that are accustomed to a raw diet. Otherwise make patties and poach them in chicken or beef stock.

To serve either raw or poached, put a generous helping of recipe into dog bowl, add 1 cup of high quality, meat based kibble, 1 egg, 2 to 3 tablespoons of olive oil, and supplement with super foods: digestive enzymes, probiotics, co-enzyme q10, and wild blue green algae.

Recipe can be made ahead and stored frozen in 1 week-sized containers.

Seems pretty high to me in veggie matter.. (and a lot more complicated than nessisary) but I don't really see anything 'wrong' with it.

I will be getting a puppy later this month and I was thinking of feeding raw, but I have never done it before. Any suggestions?

I don't know what kind of "large" dog this would feed for a month. This would last me 1 day between Daisy and Gunnar. Even Bruzer, with his meager diet, would only get about 10 days out of this amount of food.

Way too much work for me. Where do you get things like marigold petals? Isn't this what they feed chickens so they have that nice yellow skin color?

Here's my recipe- take 1 fryer chicken, or one hunk of pork ribs, or one deer shoulder, place on ground, observe dog eating.

I agree with Dekka........sounds a LOT more complicated than it needs to be. I include veggies in my dogs food too, so that isn't the issue......but some of those things are going to run you all over town to find........IF you can find them! LOL

Spinach, broccoli, carrots, peas, mustard greens, veggies like that which you could/would buy and eat yourself are FINE, LOL

I also agree with the month thing, I don't think that would last Phoebe and Orson a month either.

I don't know about the skin of a chicken, marigold does make the egg yolks very bright orange. We feed our hens a natural laying feed with lots of marigold. The yolks are the brightest I have ever seen.

I know a lot of people say that raw is really easy but, in my opinion, it's actually not. It takes a LOT of reading before you start. You have to understand what nutrients are required by your dog (and how much of everything to give). I've been preparing my dog's meals for over a year, and he's been on raw for more than half of that, and I still measure each day's worth of food to make sure that he gets what he needs nutritionally (and he's 20 mos. old now). It may be okay to learn as you go a bit, if you have a healthy adult dog, but I personally would not be comfortable doing that with a brand new puppy -- particularly a giant or large breed one.

I say this only because I've seen a few general questions from you about feeding. I'm really glad that you're thinking ahead about what to feed your pup, but maybe it's a good idea to do some independent reading for a while so you can decide what *you* are comfortable with. Prepared food may be the best way to start.

Good luck!

The dekklets have been raised raw. And it IS easy .. once you get started. If you imagine a 'whole prey' model and remember you don't have to feed a balance every day. So imagine you were going to feed your dog a whole chicken.. (well less some muscle meat as domestic meat animals have more 'meat' on them than they should)

So I feed chicken backs for a few days (to stimulate the carcase), a chicken neck or turkey neck etc. My organ meat is beef so once a week or so they get organs (or two meals every two weeks) Mine get tripe with their organ meat and a little kelp meal so no veggies.. Thats their staple diet.

I do throw in things like pigs feet, elk ribs, bison necks, pork necks.. but thats more cause I can get those things easily and they like them.

Thanks for sharing this recipe. I am in no doubt, my dog will surly enjoy it.

Once you get settled into a routine it is very easy. I spend about an hour a month more feeding raw than I would feeding kibble. An hour a month is not that much time. What could be simpler than just handing the dog an animal part?

No it doesn't. I read one book before I started and most of it turned out to be useless. The only thing I had problems with was I fed veggie slop in the beginning but after noticing that the dogs had diarrhea the day after the veggie meals, I decided they weren't needed and haven't had a problem since.

Well, see? That's were you don't understand and are trying to make things more complicated than they need to be. Nature has already worked those things out for you. Here is the basics of feeding a raw diet in a nutshell. Feed raw meat, bones, and organs from a variety of animals. A variety of animal parts from a variety of animals. Feed mostly meat, some bone, and some organs. Feed pieces athat are too big to be swallowed whole. If your dogs starts to get fat feed less. If he starts to get too thin, feed more. No fruits or veggies needed. They just over complicate things without adding any belefit to the diet.

No need to be an expert in nutrition. No need to worry about ratio's or weights and measures, or percentages. Nature took care of all that for you. How much simpler can it be?

No need to measure. You should know by now what a meal looks like. I don't own a kitchen scale and have no idea what my dog's food weighs or how much I feed them. I adjust volume based on the dog's build.

I raised a Great Dane puppy from 12 weeks on exactly the same diet in the same amounts as I fed my adult Dane. No need to feed anything special to any puppy. Feed them just like adults.

Don't over complicate it. Don't over think it.