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I have several freezers and buy in bulk from a local meat processing plant, raw dog food co-op, I watch for sales for the cheaper cuts like pot roast, boneless round steak and stock up. I order some things online from http://www.hare-today.com/ like green tripe, beef lung, whole rabbits. Beef heart and tongue are cheap around here so I get plenty of those too. Ethnic stores have good prices on lamb and such. I also have several friends who are deer hunters and tell them I will take anything they don't want and take any freezer burned older venison meat from them too. I've gotten almost entire deer this way from one fellow who enjoys the hunt but only wants a couple select cuts for himself. I wish I could talk them into bringing me the green tripe but none of them will mess with it. They do bring me any other organs I want so I always ask for lungs, trachea, heart if they dont want it, liver etc. and I get tons of legs which are good for recreational chews and teeth cleaning with all the fur, tendons and hooves. I take them away once she is down to the bare bones. (Goose hunters are a good free source too even though not red meat, many cut out the breast and leave the rest) Also mention to all friends that you feed raw. A friend of ours just filled a freezer with a new beef and he gave me all they had left from their last beef, he also gave me some new cuts he didn't want, plus the tongue and heart and a fifteen lb turkey (his wife had bought several on sale the year before and never used them all). All so he had room for the new beef.Sounds like where I am headed. Thanks for the info. My chickens are still young.
I do wish that I could afford better meat than chicken for my dogs. They always get part of my hunting and fishing bounty. I haven't found beef anywhere here that's in my budget. Where are you getting yours? I was told the other day that the Greyhound racers were buying from some livestock company south of me so I'll be looking into that.
I have trained and competed with Working K9's for over 30 years and it's amazing how much healthier my dogs are than a lot of others in that world. They can flat out, out perform dogs on a Commercial Bagged Diet.
How do you deal with their poop? You can just crush it under your boots but it's piled up a little. Water doesn't seem to pulverize it into dust. Needs some force.