All of our Cavaliers eat raw food on a daily basis. Using a calculator we have come up with a simple recipe to base our dogs diet off of. This recipe is not completely balanced and does require some supplementing of other whole foods in the diet. For this we like to rotate raw eggs, raw goat milk, fish oil, and dried animal parts such as chicken heads and duck feet etc. It is perfectly fine to balance their diet over time (just as with humans). For this recipe we like to grind all of the ingredients with our meat grinder and store the food in vacuum sealed 1lb packages in the freezer. In this way it replicates any food purchased commercially. All of our dogs love this food and it helps us save money on commercially prepared raw food. We will also rotate proteins in the recipe and add others depending on what becomes available. This recipe is based on the Prey Model Raw dog food diet consisting of 80% muscle meat, 10% bone, 5% liver and 5% other secreting organ. *we do not feed homemade raw to our young puppies (under a year old) to prevent nutrient deficiencies while they are still growing. For young puppies we only feed commercially prepared raw from Viva Raw as this is the highest quality raw food we have found.
Basic Prey Model Raw Dog Food Recipe:
50 lbs raw chicken breast meat
7 lbs raw chicken bones (backs or carcass)
4 lbs raw beef liver
3 lbs raw beef tounge
2 lbs raw pork kidney
2 lbs raw beef heart
1 lb raw pork brain
Ratios:
76.81% muscle meat
2.90% muscular organ
10.14% bone
5.80% liver
4.35% other secreting organ
