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snoori Newborn
Join date : 2012-01-08
| Subject: Need help with PMR diet for puppy... Mon May 21, 2012 4:57 pm | |
| So, I recently switched my puppy, Atticus(6.5 months), over to raw. He had been eating Life's Abundance mixed with THK's Embark. He was not able to eat the Life's Abundance alone...ever..or else he would get diarrhea and it would mess up his digestive tract. So, we have always had to supplement it with something for normal stools...but his digestive system would still become upset every once in a while. My boy has always had a super sensitive digestive tract, so rather than spend almost $130 a month for the food and THK Embark...I figured at that price I might as well switch him to raw! So, I started off feeding him Halshan, which is pre-made 1lb bricks that are already mixed and in gound form and for the first week he was getting 1lb a day of the turkey organ and veggies bricks and I was mixing it with his embark to transition him. He was doing great! So, after the first week, I had run out of the embark and didn't want to buy another box of it and so I switched him totally to raw. He has been eating 2lbs of the raw a day. He did great his second week completely on the raw. His stools were small and firm, and he was more energetic and seemed happier. So, the store that I had been buying my raw from also sells 5lb buckets of meat, ground raw bones and veggies for $12 and I was excited because I had been buying the 1lb bricks from Halshan for $3.99/lb! So I switched hi, to that formula, because I know they are supposed to have bone in their raw diet as well and the other 1lb bricks didn't include bones. So, he did well on the bucket of raw turkey, bones, and veggies....until recently...his poop, suddenly just turned to explosive diarrhea out of nowhere! He is still on the raw and his poop is better today then it was yesterday and I still would like to continue with the raw, because I figured his upset digestive tract could have been due to many things from the switch in raw formulas, to eating more than he should have eaten, to eating something he shouldn't have eaten off the ground etc. so, I'm monitoring it. So, now I have been reading about the prey model raw diet...and I think it would be more affordable feeding him PMR as opposed to feeding him the pre-made buckets from the natural pet store...I'm a little confused on how to get started...he has been eating turkey and has done well on the turkey, so how do I go about making a mixture of the prey model diet? Would I buy turkey and bones and organ mean? I'm sure it's pretty simple and I am over-thinking it, but he has such a sensitive digestion and I don't want to cause more digestive upset for him...I also don't know how he will do with different kinds of meat...I know he does well with turkey, but haven't tried chicken or beef or anything yet. I know he has had issues with chicken treats etc in the past, so I've been avoiding chicken. I also am not sure if I should continue to buy him ground meat and ground raw bone and organ meat or how I should go about this prey model raw diet...I looked it up online, but I am still unsure how to mix it, what type of turkey I should buy etc...please help me? Lol |
| | | arooroomom Husky Collector
Join date : 2009-12-13 Location : South Fl
| Subject: Re: Need help with PMR diet for puppy... Mon May 21, 2012 7:03 pm | |
| With him being so small, your bone-in turkey choices will be limited. I have a sensitive boy too and he can tolerate turkey and venison so far, that's it. He regularly gets turkey necks with his venison grounds. With a 6 month old puppy, the turkey necks may be too hard.
For PMR you "ideally" want 10% bone 10% organ and 80% meat. Are you currently feeding 2lbs a day? That may be too much. Even when rodeo was eating a lot he still stuck to about 24oz a day. Now as an adult he eats about 18-20oz depending. So I would certainly try backing down that amount.
As for what to feed... Personally I would try and get him normal on what you're currently feeding. Try backing down on the amount and get him settled. When this seem to have returned to normal try out a chicken neck. See how he takes that. Give it a day or so to get used to it. If that's ok you can try some other cuts of chicken or try another meat source. None of my dogs have ever had a problem adjusting to another meat when they were on raw. Even hypersensitive rodeo once I figured out his intolerances. You can try pork (I find the shoulder meat cut from the bone the most cost effective) or beef or whatever you can get your hands on. I use a lot of grinds from Blue Ridge Beef (see if there is a distributer in your area) and that makes things easy. I add bone in meats and organs to that as well. _________________ Force Free Training ThreadCheyenne, Mishka, Mickey, Rodeo, & Odin Are you a Husky owner in South Florida?! Join our facebook meetup group! |
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