wolfpup

Hi  and thank you for your kind comment

My home email address is   Chrissie123@btinternet.com  can you email me  -   I can send you a list of articles that will help give you a good background in feeding your dog from scratch and helping you to get the balance right  (the most difficult thing to do).

I use a mixture of  commercial raw food and  'from scratch' as one of my boys has very severe food allergies  - he cannot eat any meat that has ever eaten  wheat, soya, corn, oats, rice, peas, carrots, potatoes or sugar beet.

What country are you in?

What dogs do you have,  what is their age(s), weight, ?food allergies? etc.

Feeding from scratch is obviously the cheapest way to go  - my 2  x 30kg+ dogs cost me on average around £20-£24 a week  (on par with a 'good quality' kibble) - but bear in mind one of them can only eat grass fed / grass or barley finished beef,  or truly wild (venison/fish/kangaroo etc) - so not the cheapest dog on the planet to feed.

It can also be a little time consuming (in order to save time later on) -  like on Wednesday I am picking up 4 lamb plucks  (liver, lungs, heart) and turning it into home-made offal.  You may have read that a lamb's liver can cost me £7-8  but I get a lamb pluck for £4 - and get the lungs and heart as a free bonus whilst paying less than half for the liver.  It can take me 3-4 hours to cut it all up ready to mince, - but the biggest amount of time is taken getting every scrap of fat off the meat  - my food allergic boy also has a faulty gene that deposits fat directly into his eyes - so I have to walk a very fine line between giving him the fat he absolutely must have without giving too much.   I then have enough offal for a month - 6 weeks or more.    One thing to bear in mind is that providing the amount of liver does not constitute more than 10% of the whole diet - offal can form up to 25% of the meal  -  at a cost of around 30p per portion.    This REALLY brings the cost of a good quality raw diet down so you can choose better quality meat.   

I also prepare my own bone broth with grass fed beef and lamb bones  -  I get these free from my butcher - along with lambs ribs - which form the bone proportion of their diet - as well as being their treats.  This broth comes out at less than .5% fat  and costs me around .20p in electricity to make.   I literally stuff the bones in a slow cooker and forget it for 2 days.

Did not intend for this to be a long email - sorry.  However some people do not realize that feeding a dog from scratch can take some time once a week  or in the case of the offal once ever 4-6 weeks.

Chrissie