LOL...sorry to be so difficult! Perhaps a balance would be to feed cooked boneless ground rabbit with premix on some days and the recipe above with organs on other days?
Oh you would pick rabbit!
I think that would be a good idea. The premix might fill in what the organs don't provide and the organs might fill in what the premix is lacking.
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I think that would work well.
Does the egg get cooked? If not, I thought cats couldn't have raw egg whites?
Okay, so on some days I could follow the Balance It (supplement for cooked diets) recipe for rabbit. It's on their website. This would just be cooked boneless ground rabbit meat and Balance It supplement.
The eggs would be cooked.Does the egg get cooked? If not, I thought cats couldn't have raw egg whites?
I'd go easy on the organs with BalanceIT. It contains iron which is also abundant in organs. In humans iron supplements can cause stomach upset. Maybe not in cats but ...
Thank you! And good call. I'll just follow the recipe you provided when using organs.
Yup.
Hi again!In looking at the original recipe in post #4, I am a little confused when it comes to the supplements. I'm a very literal person, so bear with me.
Taurine - I have 500 mg taurine capsules at home. So I would need to add 10 of these capsules to the recipe to make 5 g of taurine, correct?
B-Complex vitamins are awkward because they contain several different vitamins and each product could have each of them in different quantities. Generally one called B-Complex 100 will have 100 mg of most of the B vitamins it contains. The specific product I used in the analysis is NOW brand. But the product I've been using recently is Jarrow B-Right. It has less of an odor. B Complex vitamins can be kinda stinky. It contains quite a bit less than 100 mg of the B vitamins but it still works well in the recipe at 1/2 a capsule. That is, the analysis still comes out fine. So basically any B-Complex is probably fine. Even half of a B-Complex 50 would work. In fact, I probably should have specified less. Half of a B Complex 100 is probably overkill.
The fish oil is primarily for the omega 3 fatty acids to help balance out the omega 6 fatty acids. Modern animal rearing results in meat much higher in omega 6s than omega 3s. An animal raised on a nature diet would have higher omega 3s. In humans we believe it is beneficial to replace some of those omega 3s but it isn't known to matter a bit in cats. Actually the evidence for it being beneficial in humans is pretty shaky. So, any animal based omega 3s are considered beneficial and any fish oil would be fine. A product other than what I used might result in a different omega6/omega3 ratio but we don't really know what ratio is ideal anyway.
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