Safest meat for raw feeding?

Mine primarily get chicken and pork when I do raw.  The pork breast ribs are great.

The argument has been made that the ground meats are less safe because their is a greater chance of ecoli being introduced.  I've never really tried it, since I want my crew to get bones with their meat so I can't say it's been or not been a problem for us.

The only thing I'll say about raw feeding is to please research and know that you are balancing phosperous/calcium, and that you are including the proper amount of organ meat.  And, for the record, heart is NOT an organ meat, but considered a muscle meat.  Great source of taurine, raw, but it isn't an organ.

Good luck with this.  I'd love to do all raw, but I just don't have the space right now, or the motivation to get started.

I use all o the above.  Whenever I can, I get meats directly from the farm.  This is absolutely the safest and sometimes can be the cheapest way to get meat in the long run.  You need a ton of space but if you can afford it, you can get a quarter or half of beef (chopped for stew, roasts, and ground is best), a half pig, and a couple of small ruminants, just once in the year and spend about half what you would at the grocery.  And, the meat will be raised where either you know how it's done, you may be able to overlook that facilities, the meat is kept humanely and slaughtered humanely, and custom  cut for you.

That's the BEST way hands down - as I said, if you can manage it logistically.  So far, I haven't been able to manage it myself - not in a long time, since my big freezer died anyway.

So Wally World gets a good bit of my business, sadly, as does Compare Foods, which has some kind of scary looking suppliers (I've seen them drive up and unload).  But I can't turn my back on $1.20 beef heart meat, 59 cent a pound chicken quarters, and 80 cent a pound pork ribs. 

Thanks for the info.

These dogs have been on homecooked for over 2-3 mnths now, I balance the meat's phosporus based off from Honest Kitchen's Preference or Urban Wolf's recommendations with balancing meat/to veggie content, they already have calcium in their formulas.

 I'm simply deciding whether to switch to raw or keep cooking their meats.

They do get chicken livers, gizzards, along with calf liver, and they'll get turkey organs here pretty soon. I don't have access to any more organ meats then that, I've been to every store in the Denver/Elizabeth areas, there are no more organ meat types to be found.

My big dog can't eat chicken, so he gets calf liver, turkey organs, and beef heart quite a bit.

 I feed both Chicken and Beef, also ground meat too. I don't feel that one is "safer" then the other in general. Either one is fine.