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Husky too thin?

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  • #52
    Vince32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭Vince32


    hmm sounds tricky lol Would you object to videoing the prep and cooking and uploading to YT?

    Or if there is already a good walkthrough up there that you know of and just paste the link, I think I would prefer raw and cooked natural foods, but knowing me I'd mess it up the first time and lose confidence :P

    I've looked at this lady http://youtu.be/FJ6pyO121ZI is this what your describing?

    Should I de-bone any raw foods? I've seen some people use ground beef, chicken or turkey and adding "pet mix" into the batch to make it "balanced"

    Honestly there is sooooooooo much £^"$ out there its hard to know what's actually good, and I'd prefer an experienced owner to some commercial selling "magic beans"

    cheers


  • #53
    DogsFirst
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 360 ✭✭DogsFirst


    All the info on what to and how to feed are in the previous posts, there's loads of sensible people about here.

    Don't take the bones out of fresh chicken (they are where the money is for dogs building bones). In short for a carnivore bones build bones, cartilage builds cartilage (with condroitn, vit C etc), muscle builds muscle etc.

    Re youtube, I'm slap bang in the middle of putting that together. PM in a month. Got bored listening to that woman on the link though! I don't cook the meat but as long as she's sticking to (roughly) 70% meat, 10% bone and 20% cooked veg you're on to a winner. Everyone will peddle you special "recipes". As long as you vary the meat you put in, you're laughing. Get yourself some raw oily fish (mackerel / herring) by the 10kg from a factory (make sure they're from frozen or freeze them yourself). Best joint forming protein and oils for that soon-to-be working huskie who is expressing lameness. Make up enough food for 3 weeks at a go so you don't get a pain in your teeth doing it. Store in huge lunch boxes in your freezer and have one going in your fridge so you just have to scoop into the bowl!! Easy. Bulk buy keeps it cheap.

    I feed my bones separate around 3 times a week just because they get in the way of the mixing/storing process. I hack chicken carcass up with a big cleaver on top of chest freezer outside (I keep all the dogs stuff separate, a big pot, her own chopping board, a cleaver, bags, lunchboxes, antisep wipes, rubber gloves, in a big tub outside). Once you get your area sorted it's grand, before that you're running around using your mums best china kind of thing, covered in blood and sinew, the dog licking your trousers.

    Read all previous posts from anyone on here that's raw feeding (that'll take a few days), take some notes, browse on google (watch your sources), give it a go, then get back with your success stories!!

    Heres a thread on bones if you're worried about them.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75549098&postcount=42


    There is loads of rubbish out there. Go to Amazon.co.uk (or better yet the bookdepository, dirt cheap books) if you're getting confused and pick up a book, you'll have it in 3 days. Hust type in "dog food" or "feeding dogs" or whatever. Not one of these books, written by folks that have looked into dog diet, will recommend dry food. Buy any one of them. Doesn't matter which as they're all just repeating the work of two Aussie vets, Ian Billinghirst (Give YOur Dogs A Bone) and Tom Lonsdale (Raw Meaty bones), both good books too. Or check out their websites, or give them a ring!

    Interestingly if you put in "dry food" into Amazon all you get back are financial reports for the first 30 entries!!! Not one book or recommendation! Very telling.


  • #54
    Vince32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭Vince32


    Smashing stuff :)

    I'm going to enjoy pounding the bones with a mallet, I'll start small maybe 2-3 feeds a week and build it up slowly. We just tossed a chicken carcass yesterday, a shame really.

    Thanks again for the top posts.


  • #55
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Vince32 wrote: »
    Smashing stuff :)

    I'm going to enjoy pounding the bones with a mallet, I'll start small maybe 2-3 feeds a week and build it up slowly. We just tossed a chicken carcass yesterday, a shame really.

    Thanks again for the top posts.


    Words there are none.. Soup? Maybe I am just of a much older generation that always used every part and bit for food. In the days when chicken was a very rare thing; just at Christmas actually.

    Waste is.....

    But you will know now!

    The greatest pleasure we had last Christmas was watching collie deal with a large part of raw turkey back. Bottom in the air, head down and utter bliss. Took her around 15 minutes.. When we got her she had been fed on cheap tinned food mushed up with cheap white bread in water. Her teeth are far better than they were.

    LIDL and Dunne's have had real bargains on turkeys. eg E9.99 for 5 k. We eat the white meat and the critters get the rest over time.
    It is easy; not as complicated as some here make out.


  • #56
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    DogsFirst wrote: »
    All the info on what to and how to feed are in the previous posts, there's loads of sensible people about here.

    Don't take the bones out of fresh chicken (they are where the money is for dogs building bones). In short for a carnivore bones build bones, cartilage builds cartilage (with condroitn, vit C etc), muscle builds muscle etc.

    Re youtube, I'm slap bang in the middle of putting that together. PM in a month. Got bored listening to that woman on the link though! I don't cook the meat but as long as she's sticking to (roughly) 70% meat, 10% bone and 20% cooked veg you're on to a winner. Everyone will peddle you special "recipes". As long as you vary the meat you put in, you're laughing. Get yourself some raw oily fish (mackerel / herring) by the 10kg from a factory (make sure they're from frozen or freeze them yourself). Best joint forming protein and oils for that soon-to-be working huskie who is expressing lameness. Make up enough food for 3 weeks at a go so you don't get a pain in your teeth doing it. Store in huge lunch boxes in your freezer and have one going in your fridge so you just have to scoop into the bowl!! Easy. Bulk buy keeps it cheap.

    I feed my bones separate around 3 times a week just because they get in the way of the mixing/storing process. I hack chicken carcass up with a big cleaver on top of chest freezer outside (I keep all the dogs stuff separate, a big pot, her own chopping board, a cleaver, bags, lunchboxes, antisep wipes, rubber gloves, in a big tub outside). Once you get your area sorted it's grand, before that you're running around using your mums best china kind of thing, covered in blood and sinew, the dog licking your trousers.

    Read all previous posts from anyone on here that's raw feeding (that'll take a few days), take some notes, browse on google (watch your sources), give it a go, then get back with your success stories!!

    Heres a thread on bones if you're worried about them.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75549098&postcount=42


    There is loads of rubbish out there. Go to Amazon.co.uk (or better yet the bookdepository, dirt cheap books) if you're getting confused and pick up a book, you'll have it in 3 days. Hust type in "dog food" or "feeding dogs" or whatever. Not one of these books, written by folks that have looked into dog diet, will recommend dry food. Buy any one of them. Doesn't matter which as they're all just repeating the work of two Aussie vets, Ian Billinghirst (Give YOur Dogs A Bone) and Tom Lonsdale (Raw Meaty bones), both good books too. Or check out their websites, or give them a ring!

    Interestingly if you put in "dry food" into Amazon all you get back are financial reports for the first 30 entries!!! Not one book or recommendation! Very telling.


    Jeepers; you make heavy weather of it all! Books? Mallets? Far too complicated for me.


  • #57
    DogsFirst
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 360 ✭✭DogsFirst


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Jeepers; you make heavy weather of it all! Books? Mallets? Far too complicated for me.

    Agree with you Grace, the whole feeding dogs thing has been over complicated on purpose, to confuse pet owners into thinking it's too difficult. Ironically though only a great deal of reliable info to counter the wave of pseudo science out there that has engulfed our vets and pet shops, is going to put it right again.

    Some of my posts are too long I totally agree. Feeding a dog is dead easy, as easy as feeding your kid, but some people take a bit of persuasion. Books for info, mallets for bones that "will choke your dog" etc, all totally unnecessary but very necessary at the same time!


  • #58
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    DogsFirst wrote: »
    Agree with you Grace, the whole feeding dogs thing has been over complicated on purpose, to confuse pet owners into thinking it's too difficult. Ironically though only a great deal of reliable info to counter the wave of pseudo science out there that has engulfed our vets and pet shops, is going to put it right again.

    Some of my posts are too long I totally agree. Feeding a dog is dead easy, as easy as feeding your kid, but some people take a bit of persuasion. Books for info, mallets for bones that "will choke your dog" etc, all totally unnecessary but very necessary at the same time!

    :rolleyes:


  • #59
    Irishchick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭Irishchick


    Excellent info Dogsfirst. The amount of people that come into the practise with malnourished dogs is unreal.

    I ask : "What are you fedding him/her"

    "Ah I feed them the good stuff you know, pedigree chum" :rolleyes:

    People just seem to forget that a dog is a carnivore.


  • #60
    blaaah
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭blaaah


    Hi, just issue about cut offs from butchers, can I give them to my rotties & husky raw or a means of cooking them is better?
    The meat is beef, with few short bones thrown in.

    Thanks


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  • #61
    Cork24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭Cork24


    Siberian husky are not like Malamutes,

    Malamutes are bigger and wider, unlike Malamutes if a Siberian husky is not walked he will let you know and can get aggressive and can bite their Owners.


    Huskies are mainly used for pulling for the High Energy where Malamutes are big and powerful they can never last as long as a Husky.. saying that their high energy gives them a high metabolism so i will not worry once you are giving them the right food and the right amount you will be fine..


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