RAW Feeders

[Cupcake1243]

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As it mentions ‘Throughly cooking pork infected with Trichinelka spiralis kills the parasites’ Is only one example of something it can be infected by and there’s false information on that article because pork is definitely not safer to eat rare than any meat. 1 way to prove this is in restaurants they can serve you raw beef and you can eat it. You can never eat raw pork, ever. And they will never serve it raw

 

[saysfaa]

It doesn't say it is safer than any other meat for people to eat rare. Or talk about serving pork raw - except that pork producers are required to not feed (or allow to be eaten) raw pork or rodents, if you call that serving.

Everything has risk. The risk from the less than 1 in a million chance of my dog getting a parasite that rarely causes symptoms in dogs and that can be effectively treated over two weeks with a med often used for other worms also was too low to be a factor for me. Other worms that dogs fed kibble commonly get, too.

 

[Cupcake1243]

It doesn't say it is safer than any other meat for people to eat rare. Or talk about serving pork raw - except that pork producers are required to not feed (or allow to be eaten) raw pork or rodents, if you call that serving.

ah my bad But I still won’t eat pork, cooked or raw.

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

As it mentions ‘Throughly cooking pork infected with Trichinelka spiralis kills the parasites’ Is only one example of something it can be infected by and there’s false information on that article because pork is definitely not safer to eat rare than any meat. 1 way to prove this is in restaurants they can serve you raw beef and you can eat it. You can never eat raw pork, ever. And they will never serve it raw

I’m simply showing you we don’t have that here in Australia, we have never had a case of it. I gave you an article which stated it we have never had cases. Take from that what you will but I read the part in bold.

 

[BlueHorse17]

I am so glad I feed raw, unfortunately I know somebody who feeds one of these feeds, I hope her cats will be fine
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cat-food-poison-dogs-blood-b1898693.html
This has just made me dislike “normal” cat/dog food more

There are so many things out there that are harmful. Even when I started feeding raw I was like…oh shoot…what now?

 

[BlueHorse17]

ah my bad But I still won’t eat pork, cooked or raw.

That’s fine. To each their own!

 

[BlueHorse17]

It doesn't say it is safer than any other meat for people to eat rare. Or talk about serving pork raw - except that pork producers are required to not feed (or allow to be eaten) raw pork or rodents, if you call that serving.

Everything has risk. The risk from the less than 1 in a million chance of my dog getting a parasite that rarely causes symptoms in dogs and that can be effectively treated over two weeks with a med often used for other worms also was too low to be a factor for me. Other worms that dogs fed kibble commonly get, too.

I agree. Everything does have a risk.

 

[Weeg]

Hey guys, I'm really starting to dislike making raw dog food. The recipes I'm using are approved by some abbreviation, (FDDAAC lol, or something like that) so I'm very confident in the raw I'm feeding. Though making it has become such a process and gross, to the point that I want to put it aside all together. I never want to switch back to kibble, and even pre-made raw is packed with preservatives, grains and legumes, so of course I don't want to switch to that. I'll deal with it for the health of my dogs, but I would prefer not to dislike it so much. Haha!
I'm wondering if you guys have any tricks to make it less gross. Its the liver I have a hard time with, everything else isn't that big of a deal to me. I've been meaning to grind it, but haven't gotten a chance.

Also, I've found that the all life stages recipe I'm using is expensive! It is all life stages, so I have to buy good beef, and twice as much heart as usual, so that gets more expensive. Plus I don't have a enough chickens to hold up the hefty amount of 30 eggs her batch, thats 30 eggs a week! The whole thing is expensive. I know it will get cheeper once Ember gets bigger and I can switch to an adult diet. It will also be less gross lol, since there are less ingredients.
Any tips? Did anyone have the same problem as me with the yuck factor haha, I'm interested to see if you have any suggestions. Thanks!

 

[saysfaa]

Why are you cutting up the liver?

 

[Weeg]

Why are you cutting up the liver?

Because Its whole lamb livers, I can't put the whole liver in the meal. I need to cut it into chunks to mix into the food.
I could grind it, but haven't found any time to grind ALL of the liver I got from my neighbors recent butcher.