Prey Model Raw Diet!
We have been feeding a prey model raw diet for over 3 years nows. We have seen huge improvements in our boxers health, look and feel of their skin and coat, their teeth and gums and breath, less stool, and in their physical appearence. What we fed our boxers was never something we took lightly, we have always done much research into proper nutrition and studied every ingredient in every food that was ever offered our adults and puppies. We spent 3 years doing research into Raw Diet before switching over making sure we knew everything about it and was giving proper amounts of everything to avoid harming my boxers that we love and cherish. If you do not research what you are doing and do not feed Raw Diet the right way you can fatally harm your dog. We have found in our case anyway that it is costing us less money to feed them Raw Diet then it was costing us to feed them a high quality dry dog food. Before switching to raw diet we were feeding Innova Evo. We urge everyone who is considering a switch to raw diet to please do your research first and make sure you have enough knowledge to make sure you are going to continue to keep your dog healthy and happy for many years to come. For those of you who have researched it and are ready for the switch but cannot find simple menus with no carbs well that is what this page is here for. We have decided to share with you what our menu looks like for a week.
First we will list what we buy for each dog, then we will set up a weekly menu, then we will break down our weekly costs per dog for you.
Ingredients
1 bottle of 1000mg fish oil pills
Olive oil
Dozen Eggs
Chicken leg quarters
Canned Mackeral
Tub chicken livers
Weekly Menu
Monday AM meal (each dog) Monday PM meal (each dog)
1chicken leg quarter 1 chicken leg quarter
1 chicken liver 1 fish oil pill
1 egg including shell 1 TBSP olive oil
Tuesday AM meal (each dog) Tuesday PM meal (each dog)
1 chicken leg quarter 1 chicken leg quarter
1/3 can of mackeral 1 chicken liver
1 TBSP olive oil 1 fish oil pill
Wednesday AM meal (each dog) Wednesday PM meal (each dog)
1 chicken leg quarter 1 chicken leg quarter
1 chicken liver 1 egg including shell
1 fish oil pill 1 TBSP olive oil
Thursday AM meal (each dog) Thursday PM meal (each dog)
1 chicken leg quarter 1 chicken leg quarter
1/3 can mackeral 1 chicken liver
1 TBSP olive oil 1 fish oil pill
Friday AM meal (each dog) Friday PM meal (each dog)
1 chicken leg quarter 1 chicken leg quarter
1 chicken liver 1 egg including shell
1 TBSP olive oil 1 fish oil pill
Saturday AM meal (each dog) Saturday PM meal (each dog)
1 chicken leg quarter 1 chicken leg quarter
1/3 can mackeral 1 chicken liver
1 TBSP olive oil 1 fish oil pill
Sunday AM meal (each dog) Sunday PM meal (each dog)
1 chicken leg quarter 1 chicken leg quarter
1 egg including shell 1 chicken liver
1 fish oil pill 1 TBSP olive oil
* We also give mid-day snacks that consist of turkey necks (twice a week) and we give offals daily which consist of chicken gizzards and hearts. We also give them ground beef occasionally for mid-day snack and ground turkey.
**We never feed pork!
Olive oil------ $8
10# of leg quarters---- $6
Dozen eggs------- $2
Tub Chicken livers $2
3 cans mackeral $5
Totaly Cost
Here is a list of what you will need to buy and a rough idea of what it will cost. Please keep in mind that prices will vary depending on your location. We live in Maine and these prices are based upon our location. We have divided up our cost and have figured that it runs us roughly less then $10 to feed each dog per week.
Fish oil pills 200 pills-----$7
Now we wil tell you how we buy our items.
We buy our Chicken leg quaters at walmart. They come in 10 pound bags for anywhere between $5.56 to $6.68 depending on the time of year. We buy 50 pounds at a time. We purchase the twin pack of generic fish oil pills at walmart for $7. You get 200 pills. The olive oil will usually last us at least a month. 1 tub of chicken livers will get us about 4-5 days. We purchase the canned mackeral at discount stores like dollar stores, and such as often as we can. If purchased at Walmart it is roughly $1.70 a can, if purchased at discount stores it will cost between $1 and $1.30. We are lucky enough to live on the Maine coast, and I come from a long line of Maine Fisherman. My family runs a Bait and Tackle Shop right on the ocean set up on my grandfather's private beach. luckily during summer months, I am able to get my hands on fresh herring and mackeral. We are able to save some money during those months and feed the dogs fresh herring and mackeral instead of having to purchase canned mackeral. We get enough to take us through the summer , fall and half way through the winter months. We are in the process of looking for a bigger chest freezer in hopes of being able to stock up enough herring and mackeral next year to keep us going right through the off season.
We hope we have helped you in your research of Raw Diet. Please make sure you have done your homework. We cannot stress to you enough, this is not something to take lightly, if you have not done your research and do not feed Raw Diet properly you can potentialy harm or kill your dog! If you are in the least bit uncomfortable or hesitant about Raw Diet then do more research before you start feeding it to your dog. The menu above is perfect for OUR dogs and would need to be adjusted to meet the individual needs of your dog based on energy, weight, and activity levels. If you have done your homework and your feeding this diet the right way, your dog will be healthier overall, will have less stool (meaning less yard clean up for you), will look and feel better, have healthier teeth and gums, less gas, more energy, fewer vet visits, less likely to develope expensive long term health promblems cause by un needed additives to dry food, and may even live longer because your not feeding so many unknowns that are added to dry food that could potentialy cause many of the health problems that dogs are facing today.
*Chicken leg quarters are fine for boxers size dogs and larger. please take note that smaller size breeds would not be able to chew the larger bones of chicken leg quarters and these should not be fed to such smaller size breeds.
**We do not feed any puppy below the age of 6 months raw diet. We wait until the puppy has shed it's puppy teeth and gotten it's adult teeth to switch in order for the puppy to be able to chew and break the bones. Once the puppy becomes 6 months old we slowly introduce Raw Diet by breaking and cutting the meals into chewable size pieces and gradually give them to the puppy in bigger chunks. By the time the puppy is 8 months old it will be getting whole chicken leg quarters.
