She is a pit bull. this will be her first time on raw foods does anyone know of a website to calculate how much to give her?
You should feed 2-3% (between .54lbs and .81lbs – depends on her activity level, she will probably add muscle on raw, so judge her weight by her waist), 80% should be meat, 10% UNCOOKED bones, 10% organs (w/ about 5% of that being liver). I started raw last winter and saw a big improvement in my dogs coats and over all health, though lately they’re picked up fleas (yay…….).
I would highly reccomend joining the raw feeding group on Yahoo! groups. One is called Raw Chat, the other is just called Raw Feeding. Both have a ton of links and very helpful people!
http://www.barfdirect.com/catalogs/store.asp?pid=173798&catid=27349
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It depends on the size and breed. Contact your dog’s veterinarian and see what they think.
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http://www.trojanrottweilers.com/raw%20diet.htm
http://www.trojanrottweilers.com/barfpage.htm
Hopefully one of these will help you. My understanding is, 3% of the dog’s weight should be fed in raw. But check out the site first, I believe it says on there.
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Only if you know of the brand. It should say on the bag.
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Adult dogs can be fed between 2-3% of the their body weight. It’s recommend starting with 1/2 pound of food per 25 lbs of body weight daily and make adjustments according to your dog’s age and activity. Also it’s suggest that the daily ration be split to feed morning and night. Remember that a healthy dog is not overweight
If you do start feeding raw it’s a good idea to start reading as much as you can about it. Raw feeding is not an exact science and there are a lot of opinions out there about it.
My advice is to adjust how much, and what you feed your dog by how your dog responds.
A good website to start research is
http://www.barfworld.com/
Good luck!
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look at the dogs breed and google it.
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You should feed 2-3% (between .54lbs and .81lbs – depends on her activity level, she will probably add muscle on raw, so judge her weight by her waist), 80% should be meat, 10% UNCOOKED bones, 10% organs (w/ about 5% of that being liver). I started raw last winter and saw a big improvement in my dogs coats and over all health, though lately they’re picked up fleas (yay…….).
I would highly reccomend joining the raw feeding group on Yahoo! groups. One is called Raw Chat, the other is just called Raw Feeding. Both have a ton of links and very helpful people!
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Raw feeder
What kind of raw, premade, prey-model, homemade…?
Here is a good site: http://www.rawfed.com/myths
http://www.rawlearning.com
A forum well experienced in raw feeding: http://www.bigdogsporch.com
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Owner of three raw fed dogs. General idea is 2 to 3 percent of the dogs body weight, if the dog is a pup, you will want to figure out the estimate of how big she will be as an adult and feed that amount. To check your calculations you should get the same thing when multiplying 2 to 3 percent of the dogs adult body weight as when multiplying the dogs current puppy weight by at most 10% search raw feeding shirley wellness cafe on google and the sample raw page should be in the results, there is a calculator on that page.