Many home-prepared raw diets can be missing key nutrients for puppies, especially manganese and vitamin D. This delicious combination of beef and chicken necks is formulated to meet AAFCO minimum requirements for adult dogs and puppies. No grains, no synthetic vitamins, and minerals.
NOTE: This food meets AAFCO minimum requirements for adult dogs and puppies.
You may need to adjust the daily amount based on your dog’s breed and activity level.
Raw Beef & Chicken Neck Dog Food Recipe: All Life Stages
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11.1 pounds – 6 day supply for a 50 pound dog
Ingredients
- 2 pounds 90% lean beef (do not use fattier meats)
- 3 pounds chicken necks with skin removed (you can substitute with 4 tbsp of bone meal)
- 1 pound beef liver
- 1 pound chicken heart
- 1 pound beef heart
- 10 pasture-raised eggs without shells
- 8 ounces kale
- 8 ounces broccoli
- 8 ounces dandelion greens
- 12 ounces blueberries or mixed berries (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and cranberries)
- 3 tbsp hulled hemp seeds or hemp hearts
- 1 tbsp geen lipped mussel powder
- 1/2 tsp himalayan salt
Instructions
To Feed Raw
- Grind the necks, heart and turkey liver
- If you don't have grinder, chop the liver and heart into small cubes
- Puree the eggs, kale, broccoli, dandelion greens, berries, hemo seeds, green lipped mussel and salt in a food processor
- Mix the ground beef, liver, heart and veggie/berry mix together
- Place the mixture into smaller containers and place them in your freezer
- Freeze the food in 1-3 day portions
- Feed both the necks and the meat mixture together
- If you don't grind the necks into the meat mixture, feed just the necks for one meal and the meat mix for the second meal.
Notes
We recommend feeding Safe-Sea daily to help balance your dog’s fatty acids. This will bring the omega-6/omega-3 ratio from 7:1 down to 4:1. But don’t add any oil to the recipe directly. To reduce oxidation, you don’t want to expose the oil to oxygen for too long. Instead, give it daily with your dog’s meal. Typical analysis on a caloric basis:
IMPORTANT
The ingredients in this recipe have been carefully chosen to meet AAFCO minimum nutrition requirements for adult dogs. Don’t replace ingredients or vary the amounts too much … this may unbalance the food. The berries are optional but all other ingredients need to be in the recipe in the listed amounts.How Much To Feed
Adult Dogs: In general, dogs should eat about 2-3% of their body weight daily in raw food. Here’s a rough guide for this recipe:
- 10 lb dog: Recipe will make a 21 day supply
- 25 lb dog: Recipe will make a 10-11 day supply
- 50 lb dog: Recipe will make a 6 day supply
- 75 lb dog: Recipe will make a 4-5 day supply
- 100 lb dog: Recipe will make a 4 day supply
- Calories per pound: 491.1
Analysis
- Protein: 14.57%
- Fat: 5.92%
- Ash: 2.30%
- Moisture: 74.50%
- Fiber: 0.72%
- Carbohydrate: 1.99%
Fats
- Total fat: 54.67 g/kg
- Saturated fat: 16.87 g/kg
- Monounsaturated fat: 18.20 g/kg
- Polyunsaturated fat: 11.23 g/kg
- Omega-6/omega-3: 6.9:1
- Omega-6/omega-3 with Safe-Sea: 4.1:1
Minerals
- Calcium: 3.89 g/kg
- Phosphorus: 3.31 g/kg
- Ca:P Ratio: 1.17:1
- Potassium: 2.30 g/kg
- Sodium: 0.86 g/kg
- Magnesium: 0.33 g/kg
- Iron: 25.55 mg/kg
- Copper: 9.20 mg/kg
- Manganese: 3.13 mg/kg
- Zinc: 26.75 mg/kg
- Selenium: 0.15 mg/kg
Vitamins
- Vitamin A: 23,942.65 IU/kg
- Vitamin C: 106.52 mg/kg
- Vitamin D: 166.26 IU/kg
- Thiamine (B1): 0.95 mg/kg
- Riboflavin (B2): 5.00 mg/kg
- Niacin (B3): 40.98 mg/kg
- Pantothenic Acid (B5): 14.27 mg/kg
- Pyridoxine (B6): 3.08 mg/kg
- Vitamin (B12): 0.07 mg/kg
- Folic Acid: 0.52 mg/kg