Raw dog food meal prep - easiest and cheapest way to do it. Part 1

If you are brand new to raw food and feeling overwhelmed I recommend just doing kibble, one cracked egg, 1/2 cup of gizzards, and 1/2 chicken liver. Gizzards and Liver are usually found at Wal-Mart and local grocery stores.

If you're ready to jump in and fully do raw food , then I hope this video is useful and easy to understand!

We have been feeding out dogs raw food for about 2 years now with no issues. I believe this is the easiest and cheapest way to do it without having to order anything online. We are able to get all the ingredients at most grocery stores and Asian markets. We've lived in multiple different states, so the price of food varies greatly on where you live. The most we've spent on raw food is in San Diego (seen here in this video), and the cost for one dog per month was $115. Definitely cheaper in other states!

We try go off the rule of 80% meat, 10% bone and 10% organ meat per meal.
We feed the dogs about 2-3% of their body weight.
We feed them once a day, first thing in the morning.
I recommend not giving them too much pork. If your dog struggles with keeping weight on, then I recommend one small piece a day. Otherwise, too much might give them diarrhea.
We do not feed them vegetables, fruit or give them any kind of supplements (we're not oppose to it, just being honest in that we don't do it and the dogs seem healthy either way).

I hope this helps!!

Part 2 will be of us actually feeding our dogs the raw food
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[hcnevils]

Finally a thorough and simple video....without vegetables! Thank you!!!

[adebisi]

I’ve been feeding Raw for about 10 years to my dog. Allways nice to see others raw feeding

[Thedailydog]

i love when people do videos this way, very simple and not intimidating

[nogames]

This was a good basic video for beginners. Good variety. Simple. Ingredients that can be found at grocery stores or Asian markets without too much trouble. Good mention of variety. Good job.

[xtrickster]

I buy all the same things but i also add tripe. I put everything together and put it all through my meat grinder then put it in plastic containers and freeze them

[HootieB]

I raw feed my 2.5 yr Malamute/Husky (85 lb) almost exact samething. I chop the quarter up by splitting thigh in half and cut meat off leg or he will just swallow it whole. He gets 3-5 miles daily up in the mountains off leash and is in amazing shape and looks great.. Thank you for the video....

[tinyhomebigland]

This is the best video for raw feed dogs. I have been searching all morning for the exact percentages of meat/bones/organs for my two dogs. Will be making sure I keep this video saved.

[yeeluvspizza]

Been feeding raw for 9 years. My current dog is a 21 month old female yellow lab. I buy frozen items like pork necks, chicken quarters, chicken backs, turkey wings, turkey necks, ground chicken, ground turkey, ground pork and ground beef in bulk, semi thaw enough to portion into individual plastic bags and refreeze.

My lab "hunts down and finds" 1 frozen sardine and 2 frozen chicken feet every single afternoon. She'll have a raw meaty bone also. Her dinner is a good mix of protein, bone and organ meats.

[averagejoe]

Just thought I’d comment on the spleen & kidney being optional it should not be optional the chicken heart is the only meat that can be optional since it’s a muscle meat not a secreting organ. But other than that great vid.

[priayief]

I've been doing this for more than 12 years, feeding five dogs. You'll find it much easier if you assemble at least one week or one month's worth of assembled food for total weight over that period, then randomly assemble each daily meal, then package, freeze and thaw for each daily meal.

[brianahagen]

Such a great video. It was hard to read comments about how this isn’t a good diet. The video is about showing people what it looks like and how to feed raw and store raw. And pricing. Not about what type of supplements to add based on your dogs issues. I’m actually glad you didn’t show supplements bc this video was very direct. 10/10 compared to the videos that start showing way to much of supplements and raw. I wanna see how to feed raw not see 50 types of supplements to add lol.

[denizb]

this food looks very healthy and tasty. your dogs have better life than people in my home country, they have nood, they are starving. very sad

[kingperogieandcharlie]

Have you ever given your dogs. Green tripe it's a super food that cleans out bacteria in their gut it's fabulous but very stinky❤

[elenadejesus]

I don't weigh the raw i feed my dog. I just make sure he gets organs, muscles and bones and some supplements. Hes healthy and powerful at 145lbs. and 9 months old. He is slim and trim.

[jericosha]

Thanks for this very straightforward and practical video. We are getting a puppy soon and want to get right to it.

[peterh]

I feed my dog a wide range of raw food, but I vary it through the week so that he's not getting a whole heap of different foods in a single meal. A lot of healthy additives only need to be given occasionally and don't need to form part of every meal.

[onebuffalo]

Id say one other potential con is if you dont start them on raw early theres a chance they wont be willing to do to. So if you already have a say 4 year old dog theres a chance he wont eat a raw food diet/it may be hard to get them on board with it

[Erkkremlinklum]

Dogs seem to be completely fine eating raw chicken as it only makes since considering they didn’t cook their food when in the wild lol but why veterinarians say salmonella is a concern with this diet is beyond me. Any thoughts?

[chrazzl]

I looked at the prices of your food and realised that a lot of those meats cost less where I live! I might actually be able to change my dogs' diets without breaking the bank, I always thought it would be really expensive.

[pw]

I feed a mixed diet of mostly raw, but I also use The Honest Kitchen ( that I use extensively when on the road/traveling) and a home cooked foods with a good mix of meats, vegetables, pseudo grains like quinoa, buckwheat, and ground flaxseed.

My Ahyoka is a beautiful, healthy girl that never scratches, smells, and at almost 3 years old has the whitest teeth you have ever seen on a dog! Her 17 mouth old brother is also on party this diet, but puppy kibble is in the mix, just to make sure that all vitamins and minerals are covered.

Ahyoka loves the chicken paws and eggs the most, she saves them until last! She actually savors them. She will lap up the egg whitest, then the yoke and crunchy shell, then on to the chicken paw.

Also, she eats slower then kibble. I started her off on kibble as a puppy, was too intimidated about raw, was intrigued and had read up on raw feeding, then one day decided what the heck and started, and within a week, saw improvements in her looks, and activities. I will keep feeding my fur babies this way from now on.

Their veterinarian wasn't to excited about the raw feeding, but she might be coming around. The veterinarian always comments on Ahyoka's looks (coat, teeth) and health.

I might not be 100% raw ( mostly because of time and expense ) but I'm more then half raw, with a homemade cooked foods and human grade dehydrated food rounding things out. I truly believe that raw is the way to go and kibble is the least way, ( though I use a high quality kibble as treats, and while traveling ), kibble is at the bottom.

This video was informative, interesting, inspiring, and helpful. Thank you for sharing.