[DobManiac]

Originally Posted by FourIsCompany

Can you tell me what you mean by "bone day"? I assume you don't give bones every day? How often, then?

Everyone does it differently. I feed bones every morning with some muscle meat, egg, or organs added. Then they get all muscle meat in the evening. Some people will only feed food once a day and completely balance every meal 80-10-10.

Some will balance out the ratio over a week or even three weeks changing from meat days to bone days. They stock up their freezer with 80% meat, 10% bone, and 10% organ. Once the freezer is empty the dog has been balanced over a long period of time. It all depends on what makes the most sense to you and seems the simplest.

[ioreks_mom]

this is my weekly menu for iorek right now. it will change when we move next week and can't order from the raw food company anymore. then we will be adding moose and rabbit (hopefully) and maybe a different fish source.

right now we are feeding:

sunday: pork neck bone + 1/2 lb of organ mix
monday: chicken necks or backs
tuesday: ground beef meal - balanced with meat, bone, and organ
wednesday: meaty lamb bones
thursday: ground chicken meal - balanced as above
friday: fresh atlantic mackerel
saturday: chicken necks or backs

i know it seems pretty bony but it works out well for iorek. too much more meat and he gets runny poops.

[Kathyy]

Wow that is a lot of bone! Guess you can work on switching some bone for meat as he gets better at this.

I am trying to quit the daily bone so Max can have more fun with larger bones less often. This isn't something that should be done with a new to raw dog not used to getting meals that vary daily. Max has been raw fed for over a year now and I am just now getting brave enough. My next dog will be doing this but it could take six months or so to work up to it. As in daily he can have one small pork rib or 1/2 chicken back, every other day he could have 2 ribs or a whole back. That daily chicken leg or wing is far too much bone for him, every other day would be much better. It means I would be feeding a more appropriate amount of bone. Then I will feed the rich organ that can cause the squirts with the bone leaving plain meat and the less bony fish for the other days of the week.

Before I got my freezer this would have been difficult as I packed little daily meals and would have preferred to alternate bony meals with meaty meals. All those packets look the same frozen so I never dared.

This week the menu included beef heart, pork ribs, whole sardine and beef liver. Introducing lamb tripe a bit a day at the end of the week.
Tuesday pork rib+liver+heart [100% bone req]
Wednesday heart+sardine+egg [25%BR]
Thursday 2 pork rib+heart+liver[200%BR]
Friday heart+sardine[25%BR]
Saturday heart+tripe[0%BR]
Sunday 2 pork rib+heart[200%BR]
Looks like I did fine, 550% for 6 days instead of 600% but tomorrow will be the end of the ribs and heart as they are getting stinky! So I will end the week with a bit too much bone. Oh well, a work in progress.

Next week is that rib and heart left over from this week, plus tripe and liver. I found some kidney so I can feed a couple small chunks of that next week. And on a weekly basis he needs 7 ounces of sardines not 5. This is still way too fussy! Give me another year, maybe I will be tossing out hunks of meat nilly-willy the way old timers do.

He is enjoying the big heart hunks rather than the 3-5 ounce bits he got in a daily balanced meal. He is taking about 5 minutes to eat the rib meals instead of 2 minutes in a daily balanced meal so I am happy with that part of it. Now to find all the poops. He tends to hide them and they are tiny if he is doing well.

[xclusiv]

Originally Posted by DobManiac

Everyone does it differently. I feed bones every morning with some muscle meat, egg, or organs added. Then they get all muscle meat in the evening. Some people will only feed food once a day and completely balance every meal 80-10-10.

We follow this pattern as well. Mornings consist of ground tripe with 1 of either beef hearts, goat tongues, fish, or whatever other non-bone meat we are having that day, as well as their liver, sometimes lung or spleen. The boys eat tripe every day here - they love it and do very well on it.
Evening meals are bones - turkey necks, pork riblets/neckbones/breastbones. The big boys get whole chickens as well but the little guy has chicken allergies so his bone meals are pretty restricted.

[AmStaffsMum]

I feed one meal/ day in the mornings. I do not feed any veggies or grains, only meat, bones, organs and eggs.

I go for a balanced meal each day, but do skip organs and eggs now and again.

bones usually come from chicken legs/thighs/wings or pork neck bones (just be careful they aren't too sharp!) occasionally we'll do venison rib cage too.

muscle meat is either beef, venison, or pork

I do whole eggs most days, only one of my dogs won't eat the shell.

organ meat I try to vary alot....kidney, liver, spleen, gizzards I'll usually rotate these.

Everyone gets a fish oil capsule daily as well, and then their meal is topped off with a couple of tablespoons of kefir

Once in awhile I do whole fish....when my coworkers give me extra fish from their fishing expenditions....the dogs love it, but it's definitely a seasonal menu item....they have to eat the fish outside!!! Way too smelly to feed inside during the winter!

[MikeSlough]

I don't always feed every dog exactly the samething at the same time. It depends what I have (or what stores I can get too, some that are a bit of a drive have different meat sources or cheaper prices), what each dog is doing at the time, what they need, their age, ect.

Here are just some of my meal plans and various foods I feed. They can (and do for me) change/vary as you can feed one thing with another or change it up as you see fit. As long as you keep within correct ratios, varied sources and proper nutrition.

Chicken Quarter/Beef Liver
Beef Brisket/Chick bone/Lamb Liver
Ground Beef/chick bone
Ground Turkey/chick bone
Chicken Quarter/Ground Beef/beef heart
Deer/Antelope roast
Rabbit meat/organs
Turkey meat/organs
Duck meat/organs

Chicken breast, wings, feet, organs (backs on occasion, mostly to a couple specific dogs)
Caned mackerel or salmon
Steak trimming - the fat and small amount the meat
Salmon fillet I buy the big ones and cut them myself
Mutton can't get it close but wish we could
Goat rare occasion

Eggs 1-2 times per week
Ground egg shells