For all those that will be reading these raw or home-made recipes and or suggestions… please know that no matter how good a diet “sounds” if you are going to prepare the meal yourself from scratch…. and serve it long-term….it needs to have the proper/sufficient amount of vitamins, minerals and bone. Please share with your vet or a vet nutritionist the composition of whatever you decide to feed your dog.
We are including this “RAW FEEDING” chart because it closely reiterates what we suggest in raw feeding but it also lists nutritional attributes.
Dogs that are fed raw should get 1% to 3% of their weight. With EPI dogs, start with 4% of their weight. For example, if your EPI dogs weighs 78lbs…. then in the beginning of treating EPI start with a calculation of:
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If you find that your best friend is starting to get more than a little pleasantly plump… try backing down on the amount to something like 3% of their weight:
“Since raw food is harder to measure by the cup since the densities of different meat/bones will require different levels of enzymes, it is easiest to go by weight rather than amount! ” To add the enzymes, you can either puree a portion of the raw meat and add the enzymes to that pureed slurry and pour over the remainder of the raw food, let sit for 20 minutes and serve, or you can add the enzymes to something like yogurt/kefir and either add to the food as mentioned above, or serve the enzymed slurry first ahead of the meal. Try both to see which works best with your EPI dog. (Thank you Cait for these great suggestions!)
A good site to visit with regards to Raw Food, brand names raw foods that are available located near you, and general information regarding feeding raw, please visit PRIMAL POOCH: https://primalpooch.com/
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5-10% organ meat (liver, kidney, lungs, pancreas, gizzards, heart) Some consider heart a muscle meat other consider it as one of the top organ meats to serve.Kidney has the most packed nutrition)
10-20% bone. Normal dogs should have approx 25% bone matter..many EPI dogs have issues with too much bone, so start with half the amount (or use Bone Meal) and work your way up to see exactly how much bone your dog can or cannot handle.
0-30% vegetables All veggies need to be cooked and mashed. Green veggies, work best, or small amounts of sweet potato may be used. Which veggies and how much all depends on your individual dog.
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The remainder % should be all Protein (meat/fish) skinned, de-fatted and must be ground or minced. We have found that many EPI dogs on a home-prepared meal tend to do best when the protein portion ranges anywhere from 85% to 75%.
Vitamins & Minerals Be sure to add a good source multivitamin with minerals or ask a vet nutritionist which supplements should be added to the diet to make sure it is balanced.
Oils With EPI dogs, we find that adding daily (unless another concurrent condition prohibits fats/oils)… either or / or alternate EFA (fish oils) and/or cold-pressed coconut oil as this greatly helps dogs with poor skin and coat.
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The recommended dosages are: EFA’s suggested at 180mg per 10 lbs per day, or on alternate days give ½ to 1 teaspoon of cold pressed (virgin) coconut oil.
The Home-Prepared Chicken Stew Diet : I make a chicken stew in the crock pot… i buy raw chicken thighs, peel / cut off the fat, fill 1/2 the crock pot with the raw chicken thighs, throw in about 1/2-1 cup of whatever “organ” meats i have, peel and chop up 3 medium size sweet potatoes, then i add as much raw kale as will fit in the crock pot and pour in 1.5-2 cups of water. To serve, i bake (microwave) a sweet potato (skinned and mashed) and use a portion of this added to each meal with the stew.
I put raw beef, green beans, frozen not canned, fresh carrots not frozen or canned, sweet potato and white potato and meat. If I use beef I put it into the pot with the veggies uncooked. If I use chicken, turkey or pork I cook the meat seperatly but I save the juice and add it to the veggies. My wife has shown me a better way for the potatoes cook them in the microwave then add them after everything is cooked. This way I do not need to add anything to thicken the soup, what a great idea she had. I also add apples or other fruits to the soups. I never use any spices at all I don’t think they need them. Pork, chicken and turkey will cook faster than the veggies and burn the bottom of the pot. I also add celery to the mix for fiber. Now for Thor the one that has early stage EPI he also gets raw beef at night, raw liver and I am looking into kidney and other organ meats I can feed him raw if possible. Thor also gets liquid glucosamine as well as B12 with intrinsic factor, vitamin ester C. He is my service dog and my baby.
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Not to blow my own horn but I have been told by many people including my vet that I have very healthy dogs. I wish all of you success in you feeding routine for your dogs and cats. Thor is almost 8 now and is going to have a full blood panel done next week and I will keep everyone up to date on his health.
We have feed raw for years. We has switched all dogs to raw due to ear infections on grain free food. Our epi dog was just switched to dry food but that will be changing back soon. When you feed raw you need to balance a lot of things per most that feed it. We are part of a large dog club that many have been feeding raw for 20 years. They are my back bone and research center. We are not quite as specific as they are but we do pull full blood panels on all the dogs every year to make sure what we are doing is correct.
We feed a ground food in the morning, usually beef, lamb and goat but occasionally deer. We feed chicken necks or pork necks and occasionally turkey in the evening. We have three dogs two when normal weight are low nineties and one in the mid 80s. We feed the lighter dog 1 1/2 cups of raw food 2 x day and the other two 2 cups 2 x day.
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They say you should feed no more than 10% organ meat so our butcher manages this in our ground food. We do also purchase beef tongues, hearts and livers and give these in our training. We do also make dehydrated lung as a treat too.
Veggies – this is our bad area. They want a balanced veggie base of equal above ground and below ground veggies or you can get diarrehea or too much constipation. Of course there are veggies you are to avoid…but assuming you know these!! We also add flax seed, fruit, garlic and yogart to our veggies and give some organ meat to make it more appealing!!! When we feed we feed only 1/4 cup with one feeling…usually the ground or my dog won’t eat it!!! —we fail here and often don’t do this and the blood work is perfect, so not sure it is necessary!!
Vitamins – we use an ultimate vitamin from Nature’s Farmacy because it is easy also once a day…but we don’t do it every day either!!
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We also suppliment the dogs with mackeral, tuna, eggs and sardines…we alternate these when we remember!!! The dogs get goat milk approx 1/4 cup with each meal when available (when goats are milking).
As you can see there is a lot to a balanced raw diet but I have a harder time scooping the dog food into the bowl that has been recalled so may times!!! Get your meat only from a respected place and keep good techniques of caring for your meat and you shouldn’t have the issues that kibble has had!!! It will get easier in time…but if you want to do it fully it is a lot of work!!! But for the unconditional love you receive I feel they deserve to eat better than me!!!!
When my dog developed Diabetes in addition to EPI, i found that i had to revise my home-prepared meal and greatly reduce the fat content in the meal to keep the diabetes blood sugar in control. However, iIf you remove all fat from a diet, you eventually invite additional health concerns. I could not longer even give coconut oil, which my EPI dog used to thrive on, but i did discover that i was able to give fish oil capsules (EFA’s) as Essential Fatty Acids and this supplied the necessary EFAs the body requires. The following is the EPI + Diabetes (low fat) diet that i found success with after much trial an error.
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