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I've been looking into the vitamin premixes to make a boneless meat meal (let's assume raw but I wanna use it with some canned food as well) "complete".
Now the 2-3 most famous powders have eggs and whey proteins, and also the recipes for home-made: why?
About eggs, I'm not considering the shells for calcium, but the insides as additional source of nutrients. Are they used to mimic the few quail or bird eggs a feral cat would eat? Or the intestine content of small prey?
My cat doesn't like the taste of eggs in general, and I am a little worried that using one of these premixes with raw or cooked meat could change the taste too much.
About whey protein, I really don't understand why is added. Overall protein content should be fine without (to mimic the mice figures in the overall meal). Correct me if it's not.
TCfeline which is the one I can get from Germany comes in various formulas, and I was eyeing the "no ovo" version. I can always add fresh yolks, IF he tolerates the taste.
Then, digging more into the site that sells TCpremix I found some natural alternatives, in particular:
Brewer's yeast for B-vitamin complex. Why then use syntetic ones in the premix? Bs taste just bitter and should be fine for the cat, but well a natural alternative is always better. Perhaps yeast cant be frozen?
Now the 2-3 most famous powders have eggs and whey proteins, and also the recipes for home-made: why?
About eggs, I'm not considering the shells for calcium, but the insides as additional source of nutrients. Are they used to mimic the few quail or bird eggs a feral cat would eat? Or the intestine content of small prey?
My cat doesn't like the taste of eggs in general, and I am a little worried that using one of these premixes with raw or cooked meat could change the taste too much.
About whey protein, I really don't understand why is added. Overall protein content should be fine without (to mimic the mice figures in the overall meal). Correct me if it's not.
TCfeline which is the one I can get from Germany comes in various formulas, and I was eyeing the "no ovo" version. I can always add fresh yolks, IF he tolerates the taste.
Then, digging more into the site that sells TCpremix I found some natural alternatives, in particular:
Brewer's yeast for B-vitamin complex. Why then use syntetic ones in the premix? Bs taste just bitter and should be fine for the cat, but well a natural alternative is always better. Perhaps yeast cant be frozen?