Many home prepared raw diets can be missing key nutrients, especially manganese and vitamin D. This delicious combination of beef and turkey necks is formulate to meed AAFCO minimum requirements for adult dogs. No grains, no synthetic vitamins and minerals.
NOTE: This food is for adult dogs only.
You may need to adjust the daily amount based on your dog’s breed and activity level.
Raw Beef & Turkey Neck Dog Food Recipe: Adult
11.9 pounds – 12 day supply for a 50 pound dog
Ingredients
- 3 pounds 90% lean ground beef
- 3 pounds turkey or chicken necks with skin removed (be sure to weigh your necks but this is about 3 to 6 turkey necks or 33 chicken necks)
- 2 pounds beef heart with fat trimmed
- 1 pound beef liver
- 8 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)
- 1 ounce raw pumpkin seed powder
Instructions
To Feed Raw
- Grind the necks, heart and turkey liver
- If you don't have grinder, set the necks aside and chop the liver and heart into small cubes
- Puree the kale, broccoli, dandelion greens, and berries in a food processor
- Mix the ground beef, liver, heart and veggie/berry mix together (include the necks if they are ground)
- Add the eggs and pumpkin seed powder and mix thoroughly
- Place the mixture into smaller containers and place them in your freezer, along with the turkey or chicken necks if left whole
- 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
If you use poultry that isn’t raised on pasture or beef that isn’t grass fed, this recipe will have an omega-6/omega-3 ratio of 10:1. This is quite rich in Linoleic Acid, a fatty acid that can cause chronic inflammation if not properly balanced with anti-inflammatory fatty acids including GLA and EPA. We recommend feeding Safe-Sea daily to help balance your dog’s fatty acids. This will bring the omega-6/omega-3 ratio 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. NOTE: This food is for adult dogs only.
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
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 an 18 day supply
- 25 lb dog: Recipe will make a 9 day supply
- 50 lb dog: Recipe will make a 5-6 day supply
- 75 lb dog: Recipe will make a 4 day supply
- 100 lb dog: Recipe will make a 3 day supply
Nutritional Information
Typical analysis on a caloric basis:- Calories per pound: 539
Analysis
- Protein: 15.40%
- Fat: 7.09%
- Ash: 1.73%
- Moisture: 73.87%
- Fiber: 0.57%
- Carbohydrate: 1.34%
Fats
- Total fat: 58.99 g/kg
- Saturated fat: 15.43 g/kg
- Monounsaturated fat: 16.43 g/kg
- Polyunsaturated fat: 6.31 g/kg
- Omega-6/omega-3: 10.5:1
- Omega-6/omega-3 with Safe-Sea: 4.2:1
Minerals
- Calcium: 2.75 g/kg
- Phosphorus: 2.65 g/kg
- Ca:P Ratio: 1.04:1
- Potassium: 2.35 g/kg
- Sodium: 0.66 g/kg
- Magnesium: 0.45 g/kg
- Iron: 19.92 mg/kg
- Copper: 8.16 mg/kg
- Manganese: 1.95 mg/kg
- Zinc: 25.36 mg/kg
- Selenium: 0.15 mg/kg
Vitamins
- Vitamin A: 21,106 IU/kg
- Vitamin C: 92.51 mg/kg
- Vitamin D: 141.96 IU/kg
- Thiamine (B1): 0.81 mg/kg
- Riboflavin (B2): 4.33 mg/kg
- Niacin (B3): 38.44 mg/kg
- Pantothenic Acid (B5): 10.95 mg/kg
- Pyridoxine (B6): 2.71 mg/kg
- Vitamin (B12): 0.06 mg/kg
- Folic Acid: 0.39 mg/kg
