If you can I would try to make your puppy a little older...milk replacers still aren't an ideal situation as they tend to be lacking in some way. and raising a newborn pup would be um...really hard. Even hypothetically.
And yes you can wean directly to raw.
The diet selection seems fine...might want to include fish as well, and any other meats you can think of. To help your project you should probably pick a raw diet type...prey model and BARF tend to be the most popular. The ideal prey model diet would be to literally have animals raised on highly nutritious diets fed whole to your dog (in appropriately sized chunks, of course). Since that's not really possible for most people, the prey model diet mimics this using parts of different animals in something around a 80% meat, 15% bone, 5% offal type ratio (give or take).
The BARF diet incorporates more veggies and supplementation than RAW...a Google search would give you scads of info on it. It's somewhat more complex than prey model.
Plants are generally veggies that are pureed. Prey model often doesn't include them, instead using things like green tripe. BARF diets are more likely to include the plant material in addition to the tripe and such things.
Very young puppies get basically all the food they want. Once they get older, enough to keep them lean but well-fed. Adults usually end up in the 2-3% of body weight category, but that depends on body type and activity level.
Cost...depends entirely on how big the dog is, what foods you end up selecting, and what local food prices are for you.
And yes you can wean directly to raw.
The diet selection seems fine...might want to include fish as well, and any other meats you can think of. To help your project you should probably pick a raw diet type...prey model and BARF tend to be the most popular. The ideal prey model diet would be to literally have animals raised on highly nutritious diets fed whole to your dog (in appropriately sized chunks, of course). Since that's not really possible for most people, the prey model diet mimics this using parts of different animals in something around a 80% meat, 15% bone, 5% offal type ratio (give or take).
The BARF diet incorporates more veggies and supplementation than RAW...a Google search would give you scads of info on it. It's somewhat more complex than prey model.
Plants are generally veggies that are pureed. Prey model often doesn't include them, instead using things like green tripe. BARF diets are more likely to include the plant material in addition to the tripe and such things.
Very young puppies get basically all the food they want. Once they get older, enough to keep them lean but well-fed. Adults usually end up in the 2-3% of body weight category, but that depends on body type and activity level.
Cost...depends entirely on how big the dog is, what foods you end up selecting, and what local food prices are for you.
