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For breakfast, Jasper had half of a chicken leg quarter, a raw egg, a hissing cockroach (it escaped, he ate it...) a small piece of chicken liver and a chigken gizzard.
I need to go shopping (if the butcher's shop is open) today, or all he'll have for dinner is the rest of the leg quarter. >.< I want to get some chicken feet, beef ribs, pork roast, and some beef heart and tongue. :)
Tomorrow is going to be special, since it will be his one month anniversary of coming to live with us!
Friday:
Dinner: Lamb shanks and ox tail
Saturday:
Breakfast: Evo RM with tuna and egg.
Dinner: Beef tripe, beef liver, and ox tail
Sunday:
Breakfast: EVO RM with tuna and egg and 1 Tbsp yogurt
Dinner: Ground beef, steak, beef tripe
Monday:
Breakfast: Pigs feet
Dinner: Chicken quarters and some cut up chicken breasts.
cubed raw chicken, gala apple, (food processed), oatmeal,
beef kidney, red leaf lettuce
Today everyone had a quarter of a duck. The Labs shared the duck liver. Buck also had the heart and the neck.
Chester had a quail and a couple of duck feet for breakfast, and he's getting a turkey leg for dinner.
Wow, page 50! :eek: Wooow
My boys got turkey today, because I just bought one for each of them.
Gonzo ~
Turkey neck
1/4 lb Turkey muscle meat
Snacks: Tuna, pureed Veggies, goat cheese, & Peanut Butter Frosty Paw.
Fozzie ~
Turkey neck
Turkey drumstick
Snacks: Tuna, strawberries & cantaloupe, & Peanut Butter Frosty Paw.
Yesterday they had EVO with tuna and egg for breakfast and chicken quarters for dinner.
Today they had EVO with cottage cheest for breakfast and ground beef, chuck steak, and some beef heart for dinner.
Tomorrow's breakfast is lamb neck and some ground turkey, dinner is either chicken quarters or talipia and tuna with egg, haven't decided yet.
Poor Visa is eating kibble. Mara's cousin is paranoid of salmonella so she can't feed the dogs raw anymore. Just four more weeks and she can be back on her raw again!
Yesterday's Breakfast:
Ground goat meat w/organs
They didn't get dinner last night cause mum forgot. :o
Today's breakfast:
Ground Turkey w/bone and kelp
Today's dinner:
Ground goat meat w/organs, ground flax seed, kelp and nupro.
Breakfast: A BIG chicken drumstick, raw egg, piece of liver, and chicken heart.
Dinner: about 5" piece of pork neck. I didn't realize how long it would take him to eat this!! He's been chewing it for almost an hour already!
Last night:
Beef steaks
turkey wings
chicken feet
This morning
Chicken feet
beef liver
Tonight is shopping night for the pups, all that's left is a couple pork shoulder bone in roasts, beef liver, chicken feet and a couple small pieces of venison. (supposed to hear from my butcher this afternoon about some "nifty" pieces of meats/bones/organs from 8-12 organic cows they were supposed to butcher Wed & Thurs).
2 chunked raw chicken breasts, cabbage, (finely slivered w/ the food processor), chunked beef liver, tuna oil mixed with oatmeal and an egg
Wow page 50 already :eek:.
Yesterday: Various offal for dinner and some chicken necks as a snack.
Today: Yummy offal again, C & E had a chicken leg and Tinny who is on a diet got a chicken neck instead of a leg. Tomorrow we have training so there will be no morning snack. Dinner will be lambs heart, more chicken and some supps.
Smokey & Maggie had Nutro Max dog food. :) The same food they had
yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that, etc.etc.etc. :)
Breakfast:
Half of a turkey neck
Dinner:
Goat w/organs -- For some reason, Kaedyn went NUTS over dinner and licked his bowl clean within a minute. He usually takes his sweet time and only eats when he thinks Kai's gonna go for his bowl. I guess he'll be getting goat more often. :P
Jasper had pork neck and part of a chicken leg quarter. :) He's gained some weight so I'm cutting back a bit.
Tonights dinner was....
Clover:
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1 lamb heart (quite large aswell), 1 whole egg, sardines in oil, livamol, flax seed and a couple of carrots to amuse her whislt the others finished hehe.
Elvis:
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1 lamb heart, sardines in oil, livamol, flax seed, 1 egg (Sooky boy likes his broken up), 1 lamb rib, and a small piece of carrot.
Tinny:
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2 small chicken legs with the skin off, 1 egg no shell, livamol, flax seed, sardines in oil, and small piece of carrot.
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That was good!!
I just gave the dogs their first egg!
They're kibble fed usually, but I thought I'd try them with an egg each instead of the pigs ear they usually get in the afternoon. Toby wasn't sure about it at first (my mum said "see, I told you he wouldnt like it" :rolleyes: ) but in the end he was the first to finish it! Ha! They licked up every last bit, including the shells. :D
Piccies (not great quality cause they're stills from a video)
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YAY! :D
Mine had chuck steak, beef heart, and lamb neck for dinner.
The kids had a chicken carcass and a meaty beef rib each.
Breakfast:
Turkey Wing
Dinner:
Emu & veggie mix. It's their first time trying emu.. hope they like it (cause it was hella expensive!) LOL
We went to the beach today and Tinny was passing pretty much pure water & grass (I thought she was peeing till i got closer) :(, so the poor girl just had some boiled rice and chicken for dinner. I will see how she is doing in the morning and monitor her.
C & E had some chicken and rice, and diced beef. And some Taco that had been dropped on the floor :o.
I picked up a bunch of beef "parts" Saturday morning (pictures will be up in a few days). I ended up with 4 whole lungs, 4 whole tracheas, spleans, pancreas, hearts, livers, some actual beef meat and a little bit of lamb meat. All in all I ended up with about 125-150lbs of organs & meat for $20. That's enough organs to last us 2ish months and enough muscle/meat to last us about a week. I think that's a great deal. This all came from a new butcher (one I have not used before). We talked (for about an hour) and he's going to save me some even better parts and get me a great deal on chicken too. He's even willing to store up to 120-ish lbs of meat for me at a time, which I can have up to 3 or so months to pick it up, which results in even cheaper deals. I got a tour of his shop which was very clean and all his meats are hormone free, most are completely organic. This is a great score.
I then went to a few grocery stores to gather some other meats. Ended up finding whole roaster chickens for 23 cents per pound and chicken quarters for $2.89 per 10lb bags. Got some pork feet/legs, pork neck bones, chicken backs & another pork shoulder roast. I also got some chicken livers as it was on sale, only 15 cents per pound.
All in all, I spent a grand total of about $50 and have enough meats to last about a month and enough organs to last 2-3 months. Thats WAY cheaper than feeding premium kibble & all the supplements & medications I would need if I were to feed kibble.
I knew I was getting most of the parts whole & had to cut them up but I didn't realise how much work it is cutting up WHOLE beef lungs (those things weigh about 25-45lbs each and are squishy & slimy which makes cutting them very difficult even with a sharp butcher knife). I gave up on the third lung and gave it to the dogs whole. I had to throw some of it away as I didn't have any more room in my freezer (I also didn't realise how big they are). I have to say that I will only request 1-2 of them at a time in the future and more of the other parts. Joe had to step out of the room, he couldn't stand the fact I was cutting up part of a cow. My dad used to be a butcher so I am used to it. I just thought it was funny. lol
Anyways, onto the menu:
Saturday:
They munched on scraps while I was cutting & packaging all the meat (just lamb & beef). They also split a beef lung but only ended up eating about half of it, maybe a little less which was good cause it was huge (even though it was the smallest one I had). They also had 2-3 chicken feet each.
Sunday breakfast:
Chicken quarter
beef lung
Dinner:
Chicken quarter
beef lung
egg (Nanook had 2)
sardines in oil
cottage cheese
chopped garlic clove
2-3 chicken feet each
Does anyone know what I can do with pure beef fat? There was quite a bit of it on the lungs. I did save some, and left it on the sections that I cut up but not much. I knew that too much of it can be harmful and also cause runny poops so I had to throw a lot of it away. I felt bad but couldn't think of what I could do with it. Can birds eat it? (isn't it in suet or something?)
-------- September 6 --------
Mandy:
Lamb necks
Beef kidney
Beef lung
Nova:
Turkey leg
Beef lung
Buck:
Turkey leg
Beef lung
Beef heart
Luka:
Turkey leg
Beef lung
-------- September 7 --------
Mandy:
Beef brisket
Beef tongue
Nova:
Beef brisket
Beef tongue
Buck:
Beef brisket
Beef tongue
Luka:
Beef brisket
-------- September 8 --------
Everyone:
Whole cornish hen, liver, gizzard (Nova ate Mandy's organs)
-------- September 9 --------
The girls:
Split a can of tuna, 2 chicken feet
Buck:
A can of mackeral, 2 chicken feet
-------- September 10 --------
Mandy:
1 chicken quarter
Nova:
1 chicken quarter
1 chicken leg
Buck:
2 chicken quarters
Luka:
1 chicken quarter
-------- September 11 --------
Mandy:
1 chicken quarter
3 chicken feet
Nova:
1 chicken quarter
1 chicken leg
3 chicken feet
2 eggs
Buck:
2 chicken quarters
1 chicken foot
1 egg
Luka:
2 chicken quarters
1 chicken foot
1 egg
Tonight they had...
Clover: large pork hock & a couple of carrots.
Elvis & Tinny: 1 pork chop, i removed the fat off Tinny's. And 1 chicken leg, skin removed on Tinny's. They also snacked on carrots after dinner.
Even though i have cut back on Tinny's food and not letting her have fat/ skin, and upping her exercise, the weight is not coming off :(. Anyone have any idea's?
Sue i have no idea what you could do with it :confused:. I would not think you could do much with it. Will be interesting to find out.Quote:
Does anyone know what I can do with pure beef fat?
Yep, you can put it out in those little suet holders etc. Woodpeckers and other birds love it and it's especially nice for them as it grows cooler in the fall and they are fattening up/migrating etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by lv4dogs
Have you thought about replacing a portion of the meat with green beans and/or pumpkin? Kai's doing four days of intense exercise now, with regular walks. I also just started taking away 25% of the meat and replacing it with green beans. The fat should slide right off him in no time. He's not very happy about it but.. tough love right? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by cloverfdx
My babies will be having a chunk of beef brisket later tonight.
Mandy and Nova have been overweight for a while now and I had cut their food intake back to what seemed like almost nothing and increased their exercise, but they still weren't losing weight. A couple weeks ago I upped their intake (from .75 lbs/day to 1-1.25 lbs/day) and kept up with the exercise and they are both losing weight. Go figure!Quote:
Originally Posted by cloverfdx
This morning i took her for a 2 mile run, then she had a little raw cubed chicken breast left over from last night's dinner. Had tuna for her too, but didn't want her to smell fishy for he vet appt so i took a can with me for her to have later. Then for dinner tonight she had a raw chicken leg quarter, cubed tripe, norwegian kelp, flax seed and some granny smith apple. She's sleeping it off. :D
Yesterday's Breakfast:
Ground Emu
Veggie Mix (mostly dark leafy greens)
Kelp
Yesterday's Dinner:
I offered them trout but they did NOT want it. Grrr. I ended up tossing out the trout and gave them some ground turkey instead.
Today's Breakfast:
Ground Turkey
Today's Dinner:
Turkey Neck
Thanks Asheley & Sarah, i have been trying the vegie thing aswell.. maybe i need to add more. I took the "little" girl to be weighed today and she weighed in at 14.51KGs/ 31.9 lbs :eek:.
Tonight they had...
Tinny:Chicken breast, so skin no fat. Mushed carrot, and some oats.
Elvis: 1 Chicken leg, 1 chicken wing, and a lamb bone to chew on after dinner.
Clover: The same as Elvie, i had a whole chicken that i cut up for them. Some lucky dog will score the left over back and ribs tomorrow for dinner, probably Clover ;).
My three had a crazy concoction yesterday since it was raining...
Ground beef
Liver
Salmon
Egg
Round Steak
Today was a whole chicken for Bon and quarters for the girls.
My dogs have had beef brisket the last two days. Today they also had two chicken feet.
The puppies have been getting puppy formula mixed with an egg and ground chicken. Today I also introduced some ground beef to them. They are getting mostly meat now.
Today the girls had one chicken quarter and Buck had two. The puppies had a chicken/beef/egg mixture and also attempted to eat a chicken quarter. Holly got some of the skin off :D
Mandy:
1 chicken quarter
Nova:
2 chicken quarters
Luka:
2 chicken quarters
Buck:
1 whole chicken
We went to the market today to get dog food :D. Came home with a 5 -6 KG bag of beef hocks, 2 bags of chicken 1/4s, pork soup bones & pork mince, for under $10 :eek:. What a bargain.
Tonight i gave the kids some chicken 1/4s, and they had beef bones this morning as we were going to be gone all day.
Both of my boys got some buffalo meat & hard-boiled egg for breakfast then for lunch some turkey back & a turkey quarter each. They ate a ton, so they'll probably just get a yogurt & banana & peanut butter frosty paw tonight. I attached a couple pics, since I haven't foreverrrr. =D
Awww I wanna see Sarah's adorable babies tearing into a chicken quarter! :p ADORABLE!
Today everyone had ground beef (bought it for the puppies but left it in the fridge too long), scraps of chicken breast (that my mom cut off of what she bought for the family to eat), an egg, and tripe.
I will take pictures next time ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by bckrazy
Eukanuba large breed senior dry food is what my fella mainly eats, and any leftovers (providing no onion is in it).
They got chicken organs (2 livers, 1 gizzard, & 1 heart) with Sardines for dinner! I always have to brush their teeth after sardines... ewwwuh.
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mm toothpaste!
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