I was wondering if there is anyone out there who is feeding their dogs a BARF diet. I have been feeding my dogs mostly raw chicken (necks, heads, backs), with weekly pulped up veggie mix and occassional whole fish. Some sites seem to think this is enough, while others advocate more supplements. My veggie mix usually contains yoghurt, garlic and apple cider vinegar).
I was hoping there were some BARF feeders here who could maybe share their feeding tips etc. By the way I have three Great Danes and a Beagle and they look great on what I feed them, just need to be sure.
There are different opinions on this, as you already know.
We feed our 2 girls BARF as well. They get beef in the morning (no bones) and chicken wings in the evening. I also feed them raw eggs, and occasional sardines. As for supplements, I sometimes supplement kelp, omega 3 fish oils, and enzymes. I sometimes give them yogurt too.
Its been a while since they have had garlic or apple cider vinegar.
We feed the dog a BARF diet too. It has noticeably helped his fur and arthritic knee. Wish we had done it sooner. And his poo isn’t as bad (unless someone feeds him human food at the dinner table).
We feed him the usual stuff: chicken parts, eggs, veggie mix, supplemented with some grain: rice or oatmeal, or yoghurt.
[quote]We feed our 2 girls BARF as well. They get beef in the morning (no bones) and chicken wings in the evening. I also feed them raw eggs, and occasional sardines. As for supplements, I sometimes supplement kelp, omega 3 fish oils, and enzymes. I sometimes give them yogurt too.
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Steeevieboy, just a couple of questions: Are the sardines straight from the tin, and where do you get Kelp…it is a seaweed I think :s
We do not feed the BARF diet exclusively… but it makes up the main portion of Dofu’s culinary delights.
Also, as a radical departure from BARF, I usually boil the stuff I feed to Dofu. Pig and chicken hearts, chicken gizzards, breasts, livers, etc… He also gets whatever cuts of beef, pork, chicken or lamb that I see, as well as beef tendons.
This morning he had a nice cheese and ham omelet with some potato thrown in for bulk. He loves potatos.
Tigerman, Boiling is cooking isn’t it? Sounds like he’s getting lots of meat and no bones!
I order kelp online. Will get the website up here later. Kelp comes in a dry powder. Just sprinkle it on the food is how I do it.
Sardines. I sometimes give them the oil and sometimes give them the actual sardines. They are the ones avail at Carrefor. They get the runs if they get too much of this, so I only give very little. Yes, they come in a tin.
Poo is the best indicator of how the diet is going. Hard is good. Soft is bad. Careful with hearts, gizzards, organs too much will give them SERIOUS runs.
Okay here’s an honest question: When I was little I always wanted to give our dog leftover chicken scraps, and my parents would tell me “No!” :no-no: … that dogs had a tough time chicken bones, that they splintered more easily than other kinds of bones and got stuck in dogs’ throats.
Ever since then, I’ve never actually tried it, (who wants to be the first experiment and make the poor dog choke on a bone?) But now you’ve got me curious: Is this just an old wives’ tale?
Okay here’s an honest question: When I was little I always wanted to give our dog leftover chicken scraps, and my parents would tell me “No!” :no-no: … that dogs had a tough time chicken bones, that they splintered more easily than other kinds of bones and got stuck in dogs’ throats.
Ever since then, I’ve never actually tried it, (who wants to be the first experiment and make the poor dog choke on a bone?) But now you’ve got me curious: Is this just an old wives’ tale?[/quote]
I’ve heard the same thing – specific to chicken bones. But, I heard they can puncture a dogs stomach/intestines.
My dog scarfed down cooked chicken bones all her life. Often she’d find a rotten chicken carcass, scarf it before I could catch her, wait 20 minutes, puke it back up and scarf it all over again.
And she’d splinter big bones into evil looking shards that she’d also just swallow whole.
Then next day she’d pass dogshit-flavoured powder.
[quote=“sandman”]My dog scarfed down cooked chicken bones all her life. Often she’d find a rotten chicken carcass, scarf it before I could catch her, wait 20 minutes, puke it back up and scarf it all over again.
And she’d splinter big bones into evil looking shards that she’d also just swallow whole.
Then next day she’d pass dogshit-[smelling] powder.[/quote]
…while shaking like a dog shittin’ peach pits. (sorry, I always liked that saying)
Poor dogs, everybody’s always watching them take a crap, the odd contortions they gotta go through to get their colon in a straight line for…what? Why do they do that? They get over that embarrassment real quick, though. (if that’s what it is - I got my doubts - their ears back like that while looking so shamed, knees knocking together)
