I also would not start with a newborn. You are just adding unnecessary complexity to your project.
This is my plan:
For the first 4 weeks, the puppy will be bottle fed. I am guessing I will have to use an average of one large can of milk replacer a week (unless anyone has a better alternative for hand rearing newborns... goat's milk or something?). Then I will begin weaning the pup onto solid food. I will still supplement with milk replacer a few times a day and/or mix it in with the solid food. Can you wean puppies directly onto RAW? Can you just mush up meat and such in a food processor or something? How does that work?
Here would be my plan. The puppy would be 8 weeks old when I got it. I would immediately begin feeding chicken necks and wings. In a week I would add in drumsticks. When he is 13 or so weeks, it should be able to handle chicken quarters. I would also add turkey at 13 weeks. I would feed turkey necks. I would feed 3 meals a week turkey and the rest chicken. At 14 weeks, I would add pork. I would buy pork roasts and cut off apppropriate size chunks for a meal. Maybe one meal of pork a week, 3 turkey necks, and the balance chicken parts. The next week, I would add fish to the diet. One day a week fish, one day pork, 3 chicken, 2 turkey. The next week would be beef added in somewhere. Most anywere in the introduction you could throw in a raw egg once or twice a week. Also after the first month, start adding in some organs such as liver and kidney. I would feed some beef heart also but it is not an organ for feeding purposes. It is muscle and fat. You can add lamb after the beef. As for the chicken and turkey parts, feed them with bone included in the meal. Chicken wings have bones in them, don't take them out. Same with all the other poultry parts.
This is where I would end up in an argument with the prof. Dogs are carnivores and have no need for veggies. If they needed those things don't you think after millions of years of evolution they would have developed a method to digest them in their natural state. There are no nutrients in plants that are not also in the meat, bones, and organs of the prey animals that eat them. The only think plants have that animals don't is carbs and dogs have no nutritional need for carbs. They use fat instead.
Nothing else is needed. No supplements or anything. Whenever you wonder about and animals dietary needs or any other kind of needs, look to nature. What would the animal do if humans weren't around. That will always answer your question. Nature provided all animals with everything they need to thrive. When a need is not met by nature, the animal goes extinct.
Even in puppyhood a dog eats somewhere around 2% to 3% of his ideal adult weight. That will vary with each dog and will be adjusted according to the pups build. To fat, feed less. To thin, feed more. But this is a hypothetical dog so figure 2.5% of his ideal adult weight.
Here are some prices I remember off the top of my head. Remember prices vary greatly in different parts of the country and between rural and urban areas.
Chicken backs $.33/lb
Chicken Quarters $.69/lb
Pork Roast $1.50/lb on sale
Beef Roast $2.50+/lb
Beef Heart $1.00/lb
Turkey necks $70/lb
Good luck on your project and keep us posted.
