brookcove
Posted : 7/21/2008 10:52:47 AM
What you want to do is keep a diary for a month or so - possibly even two months - before deciding what he does best on and what he doesn't do well on. Remember that you fed him the chicken while he was still adjusting to the new feeding method. The gi has to develop a whole new system, if you will, to handle this kind of food and it can take up to three weeks total to make the change entirely. I'd hate for you to reject raw down the road because you erroneously thought he could only handle red meat, and it's a cost prohibitive approach.
The direct answer to your question: I bring down the cost of feeding my dog who truly can't handle poultry, by feeding beef heart (about $1.19/lb here), ground beef by the case (around 99 cent a pound) and ground lamb that I can get from farm culls. I combine this muscle meat with cuts of consumable bones that bring the total ratio up to where it's supposed to be. Bones I use are pork ribs, pork neck, lamb neck, lamb and pork shank, pork feet, pork and lamb head, oxtails, and crosscut beef shank or humanely raised veal shank.