These are meals we rotate at the Safari Doodles Ranch. The key to feeding raw/cooked is variety each week. An adult dog doesnât need a âBalanced mealâ every day. Dogs thrive with a variety of foods to meet their nutritional needs over the course of a week. To learn more about feeding a fresh food diet to your dog, check out more of our articles here in our Safari Doodles Education blog
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Pork Bone meal / Deer Bone Meal
Chicken Gizzards/hearts. Raw or cooked
Yams and Pumpkin. Always feed Cooked
Veggies & Fruit blend: fresh & purée.
Follow this link to make this exact Beef & Veggie recipe to improve your dogâs gut health.
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- Dr Harveyâs Raw Vibrance âbaseâ (just add meat & oil). This is the green mix. It covers everything your dog needs after the meat & fish oil.
- Sardines. 1 Oz per 20/lbs body weight. Low sodium is a must!
- Beef Liver. 10-20% of the meat can be any organ meat. 5-10% is the minimum organ meat a dog needs.
- Octopus – fresh cooked from Costco
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Chicken breast. Raw or cooked
Eggs. Cooked or raw
Chicken Gizzards. Raw or cooked
Sardines. Canned in water
Papaya Enzyme pills
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Kelp Seaweed Flakes
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Ground lean beef. Raw or cooked
Eggs. Raw or cooked
Chicken Gizzards & Liver. Raw or cooked
Sardines. Canned in water
Spinach/dark leafy greens. Fresh & purée
Veggie/fruit blend: fresh & purée
Papaya Enzyme pills
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
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Egg: cooked or raw
Deer Bone Meal
Nordic Naturals fish oil/ DHA & EPA Omega-3s
Papaya Enzyme pills
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
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Mussels: canned
Pork Bone Meal
Bone broth: lamb/chicken/beef are all good Make a large broth batch & freeze in small batches. Feed broth many days a week.
Veggies & Fruit: purée. See link for recipe.
Iodine (give only 3 days/week max)
Coconut Yogurt Probiotic
Probiotic by Klaire Labs
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Chicken breast (raw or cooked)
Eggs (cooked or raw)
Lamb Bone. Only feed RAW bones. Never give cooked bones!
Papaya Enzyme pills
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Iodine (give only 3 days/week max)
Probiotic by Klaire Labs
we mix the pills in the eggs/veggie/mash
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NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
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Author: Alicia of Safari Doodles has fed raw/cooked food to her dogs her whole life. She comes from generations of fresh food feeders.
To learn more about feeding a fresh food diet to your dog, check out more of our articles here in our Safari Doodles Education blog
- For more reading on feeding a fresh food diet!
- Holistic Guide for a Healthy Dog: by Wendy Volhard. Info on how to best cook for your dog, a holistic approach to vaccines, Chinese medicine and more!
- Dr Becker’s Real Food For Dogs: by Dr Karen Becker. A detailed book on understanding how to properly feed your dog by preparing food at home.
- Lew Olsen’s book Raw & Natural Nutrition for Dogs. Lew also has a Facebook group for Raw Feeding
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