Thursday, May 7, 2015

Homemade dog food.

About once a week I make enough food for the dogs for the entire week.

Have on hand:

http://moderndogmagazine.com/articles/diy-eat-eggshell-powder/28465

Boil bones whenever they are leftover from a meal.  Save the juice from that (freeze or refrigerate) to add to the food.  Save all the broth from chicken or turkey, but remove most of the fat from beef or pork.  Save all eggshells as they are a wonderful source of calcium.  First dry out the shells (I microwave them for a minute or two) and then grind them.  Use a magic bullet or a a coffee grinder would do.  If you have a pressure cooker you can actually cook bones to the point where they can be ground and put in the food as a source of calcium.

When more food is needed, boil hamburger, porkloin, chicken, turkey and boil it until cooked.   Change the meat source regularly.     Left over meat from our meals is not cooked again.  Cook a mixture of vegetables and save the water to cook rice or quinoa if your dog needs the carbs.  Most don't.  Throw in all those left over vegetables and meat.  Vegetables can be included raw if they are finely ground. Sometimes I add sweet potatoes as well.  Boil them whole and then the skin is easy to remove.   Don't add the skins.  Also, scramble enough eggs so that each dog gets about half an egg a day.

http://pets.thenest.com/ratio-meat-vegetables-grain-homemade-dog-food-11458.html

Add salmon oil to each individual meal.  Start slowly with this.

My dogs also get veggies and some meat for treats.