I'm starting mine on BARF on Wednesday. Until Saturday I'm feeding them the frozen BARF blocks from PAH. Then I'm switching to this menu, which Rhona W has kindly helped me with.
I'll be feeding twice a day.
8 meals of raw meaty bones - Chicken Wings and Lamb Ribs
3 meals of mince (from PAH for the time being as its got ground bone in, though may be ok to switch to normal mince later) and whizzed up veg
2 meals of offal and whizzed up veg
1 meal of sardine/pilchards and egg
It depends on how much they weigh to how much they get. I've got three of all different weights, so it was a bit complicated at first but Rhona got my head straight. I know that alot of people don't bother working out weight to food ratio and go on how their dogs are looking. If they too thin they get more, if they are too fat they get less. As a beginner I had no idea how much to feed so I did work it out and I'm feeding 3% of their body weight and I'll adjust as needed.
I'll give you an example (that Rhona helped me with again
) of what Barney will get fed.
He weighs 13kg so he's getting 390g (but 400g is much easier to work with so I probably will!
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Two meals of 195g
195gs of chicken wings/lamb ribs.
195gms of mince and veg. - made up of approx. 160gms mince, 40gms of veg.
Once or twice a week use 160g of offal instead of mince.
And once a week give sardines or pilchards (or both) and with an egg.
And once a week give a bone meal for tea as well as breakfast.
Hope this helps. I know I found it all a bit confusing when reading the books, websites and posts on here where everything was saying slightly different things. But I'm really happy with that menu so I'm taking the plunge at the weekend.