corvus
Posted : 4/4/2009 4:28:33 PM
I don't follow a particular model, although I guess it's closest to Billinghurst's. I whack together a minced meat and vegie mix on the go. I usually use pet grade chicken mince, which is ground chicken frames, and pet grade beef mince. For the vegies I put a bag of cheap mixed vegetables in the food processor usually with some garlic, extra peas, beans, carrots, or some sweet potato, or chinese leafy greens. Sometimes they get spinach. Sometimes some fruit. I vary it. It gets put in little boxes in the freezer and I get one out each week. I also add cottage cheese or yoghurt to the mix when I dish it up, and sometimes kelp powder and brewer's yeast. Normally I add some fish oil and Penny gets glucosamine.
I'm feeding once a day at the moment as that's what the dogs seemed to want. So they get mince mix one day, then on the non-mince days they get chicken wings, lamb breast, or kangaroo tail. Sometimes I buy them roo shanks or lamb shanks or lamb forequarter pieces. If I see pork hocks I get them because they are Penny's favourite. I give them fish occasionally, but it's hard to get something small enough. They don't really like sardines, but if I can get small whiting they are into that somewhat. They are not wild about fish, though.
Once a week they get an organ meal of liver and kidney. Sometimes some heart as well, although I guess that's muscle meat. Kivi has never been very keen on kidneys, but he eats them anyway.
Kivi gets a dried pig's ear if he seems to need something to chew. I gave him part of a dried pig trotter once and he got a bone wedged between the top rows of teeth. He was very distressed and it was in there pretty tight. That was the first and last time I gave him a dried bone.