Question about BARF

[Guest welshphil]

Hi there, was hoping that you nice people could help me with some queries about BARF :-

 

1) Are raw turkey necks a good source of nutrition?

 

2) Can I replace veggies with a dried herb mix such as keepers mix or hokamix?

 

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[Fast but dim 1]

got for it with barf, cant see a prob with turkey necks, just watch out for farts and vomit at first.

[Guest chilli]

got for it with barf, cant see a prob with turkey necks, just watch out for farts and vomit at first.

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someone on here feeds turkey necks regular do a search should show you

[Simoman 110]

Chicken wings are better, add fresh veg to the diet, or blend it and store it in the freezer. Omega 3 fish oil (not cod liver) should also be addedd to the diet. My dogs have been on the BARF diet for years and look much better.

[Guest knocavoeboy]

someone tell me what the barf diet is.

[Simoman 110]

Stands for either, Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones and Raw Food. The diet is supposed to be more natural and heathy.

[Guest brindle]

Simoman,

Could you tell me why not to use cod liver oil?thanks

[Guest reload]

Cod Liver Oil can be good for young dogs as it will help the absoption of Calcium.

[Simoman 110]

Cod liver oil is a good source of vitamins A and D, but can contain a lot of vitamin A which can be toxic to dogs. Dogs will naturally absorb vitamin D3 from the suns UV rays and dogs can get vitamin A from fresh liver and egg yolks. Cod liver oil can also interfere with the absorbtion of Vitamin E. If you do feed cod liver oil just do it weekly. Omega 3 fish oils contain all the essential fatty acids for dogs, adding powdered viamin C will help the dogs system cope with stress.

Cheers

Simoman

[Guest Bluriz]

Our dogs have been on BARF diet for over 3 years (one changed over at about 10 years old, one from a puppy, and the latest one's taken to it straight away).

 

Chicken wings are a good basic because they've got the right ratio of meat, bones and fat, with minced meat with veg ground up in a blender (add a bit of yoghurt to this, and also a bit of dried kelp every so often as they need this for iodine, and keepers mix, the odd egg yolk, or fruit instead of veg but make sure the fruit's not going off as they can get botulism from it).

 

Also chopped up shin beef is good for them. www.landywoods.co.uk supply ready-mixed mince and veg at a good price. Ian Billinghurst's BARF books are very good: there's one for adult dogs, one for puppies and a general one, and they tell you a lot about veterinary care and dog food that's very interesting.

 

Larger raw bones to chew on are good for teeth, nutrient and exercising muscles.

 

Even if it sounds a bit complicated at first, you soon get the hang of it so you don't have to think about it and eventually they turn their nose up at some cooked people's food they'd have wolfed down before.

 

A good source of Omega 3 and Omega 6 is hempseed oil, or dehulled hempseeds both of which can easily be added to their mince mix. The dehulled hempseeds are available from Hemp Foods for You in Wiltshire.

[millreef 0]

if anyone wantin chicken wings can get cases frozen in 15kg for them pm let me no

[roybo 2,873]

if anyone wantin chicken wings can get cases frozen in 15kg for them pm let me no

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How much £ mate?