How often do you feed organs?

[DogKisses]

Raw feeders, do you feed liver/kidney/heart, every day? Or just 3ish days a week?

I was thinking of just bagging the chicken/heart/liver/kidney/ect into single serving ziplock bags so that it is convenient for me to just unthaw 2 at a time... then realized that not everyone feeds organ everyday. That isn't all they are getting (egg, sardines, few veggies, ect) but you get the point.

I have started with chicken leg quarters & chicken heart/liver and they are doing great.

 

[PWCorgi]

When I did prey model I would feed organs twice a week. Now I use a local prefab place and LOVE that the organs are already in it. I always hated fighting with organs to portion them lol

 

[Linds]

When I didn't do this raw food mix that has organ mix in it I did an organ cupcake one day, a tripe cupcake the next and a veggie cupcake the next. So organ every third day.

Organ cupcake

Organ and veggie cupcake

 

[SaraB]

I feed organs once every 10 days or so (10% of their diet), but it is mixed in with the ground turkey I feed which is their main diet.

 

[DogKisses]

I feed organs once every 10 days or so (10% of their diet), but it is mixed in with the ground turkey I feed which is their main diet.

Ground turkey with organs sounds awesome, I hope I can find something like that!

When I didn't do this raw food mix that has organ mix in it I did an organ cupcake one day, a tripe cupcake the next and a veggie cupcake the next. So organ every third day.

Organ cupcake

Organ and veggie cupcake

I might try the muffin tins, but just stuff them in there without blending it up. So far they ate the chicken liver & chicken hearts up (well Lacey didn't at first but after she saw me giving Nora the organs she refused -she decided to eat them greedily) but beef organs may be different. I doubt Lacey will readily eat a veggi mix, if not I could mix it with organs. And use your awesome idea of using a muffin pan.

When I did prey model I would feed organs twice a week. Now I use a local prefab place and LOVE that the organs are already in it. I always hated fighting with organs to portion them lol

Uh, if you hear of any prefab places in NC let me know.... lmao. I think I will just do organs 2-3 times per week. Instead of trying to do tiny portions per day (think teaspoon sized).

 

[SpringerLover]

When I did prey model I would feed organs twice a week. Now I use a local prefab place and LOVE that the organs are already in it. I always hated fighting with organs to portion them lol

This. I love Woody's!

 

[MyHorseMyRules]

I do raw meaty bones in the morning and muscle meat like heart or thigh in the evening. And I defrost a week's worth of organs (10% of the diet) and feed it over about five days, then I wait a couple days and do it again. It ends up being about a tablespoonful or so each day. When I was doing whole meals of the organs, I would just feed it about once a week. But after adding a third dog and changing up portions, this way is easier for me now.

 

[DogKisses]

Hmmm, I will think on it. For some reason I would feel "safer" feeding tiny portions of organs almost every day.

I've been doing it so far, I eyeball the size of a serving of meat & throw in roughly 10% into the baggie of meat. Then all bags go into the freezer, I put 2 in the fridge to unthaw for the next day. Next day I grab the unthawed baggies & empty one bag per dog - and move 2 more bags from the freezer to the fridge.

As I add in more ingredients (sardine, beef, lamb, salmon oil) they will go into the baggies with the meat/organs. I will mix it up so that the baggies don't have identical contents. One might have sardines/chicken/organ the other might have beef/organ/veggi/egg. Don't think I will freeze the eggs... not sure how that would turn out.

Right now I am keeping it simple with just chicken, but I am thinking ahead.

 

[Southpaw]

This. I love Woody's!

As do I! I can't imagine my cat would eat organs any other way.

I'm not even sure how I would have went about this when Juno was on raw. We never made it to the organ phase lol. I was good at winging it though and didn't really pay attention to percentages... probably I would have just thrown some organ in her food every couple days.

 

[PWCorgi]

Woody's FTW!

There needs to be a Woody's everywhere.

 

[naturalfeddogs]

I feed organs liver/kidney weekly. Heart is not considered an organ meat. Nutrition wise its a really rich muscle meat.

 

[DogKisses]

Thanks!

Oh yeah, I know heart isn't considered organ for dog food but I feel like feeding it on a somewhat regular basis. Wild canines eat heart regularly. It's not included into my 10% organs.

 

[naturalfeddogs]

Yep, I feed heart as a regular boneless meat meal.

 

[SarahHound]

Mine have cooked heart every day

 

[naturalfeddogs]

Why do you feed it cooked? You are getting full nutritional value if you give it raw.

 

[SarahHound]

Why do you feed it cooked? You are getting full nutritional value if you give it raw.

Lucy doesn't like raw! Raw food makes Todd ill. Katy does like it, but I don't like feeding it, and its easier to feed them all the same.

 

[ihartgonzo]

I feed organ & veggie meals twice a week. I puree them together, then mix in canned sardines or tripe, and my dogs gobble it up! It does NOT smell good. At all. -__-

 

[kady05]

Piper & Sako get liver 3x a week along with a chicken quarter, and kidney twice a week along with a turkey neck. Wilson eats 50/50 raw/kibble so I don't do organs with him anymore. I feed them in small amounts (5% of liver, 5% of kidney) because otherwise we'd probably have "explosions" LOL.