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Hello everyone! My cat has been on commercial raw for 2 years now (cat had diabetes for a few months then blew it out of the water with this diet). He was originally on the commercial raw that was run well then began having shoddy business practices (forgot what it was called but they changed their name) and have been on RadCat ever since.
However, RadCat is expensive! And kitty is devouring more and more of it and I'm also trying to be better about my expenses as it costs me about $150 every 1.5 months or about 9 lbs of RadCat each month or about $110 in RadCat for one 14 y/o Ragdoll (about 13-14 lbs).
So I have been reading up on options. I don't plan on getting a meat grinder any time soon unless the benefit significantly outweigh the costs (both time and money).
With that said, I am thinking of getting HareToday chicken and have been trying to figure out the 80/10/10 chicken ground mix. I'm not a math wiz and would probably need to bust out the Excel spreadsheet if I want to trust my math... So rather than reinventing the wheel, I'm hoping someone on this forum can recommend what to purchase to get the right ratio....I would like to do a 3 months supply or so to start w/ (and try to take advantage of the $$ cost savings in this vs. the RadCat option).
I'm very confused about how much of what I need to get and am throwing out there what I'm looking at on HareToday:
-10 lbs of ground chicken/bones/organs (given the 68% meat 27% bone 5% organ [liver])
-x? lbs ground chicken organ?
-x? lbs ground chicken breast?
Once I get the chicken meat ratio right, I'm hoping it will be much easier for me to calculate the supplements from the catnutrition.com recipe based on 4.4lbs of meat...
Is there a cost effective ready made supplement if including all the correct meat/bone/organ ratios (i.e. was looking at the TCFeline Pre-Mix but it's only for boneless meat only)?
And is there a calculator out there that can help with these detailed calculations/quantities/ratios?
Thank you!
However, RadCat is expensive! And kitty is devouring more and more of it and I'm also trying to be better about my expenses as it costs me about $150 every 1.5 months or about 9 lbs of RadCat each month or about $110 in RadCat for one 14 y/o Ragdoll (about 13-14 lbs).
So I have been reading up on options. I don't plan on getting a meat grinder any time soon unless the benefit significantly outweigh the costs (both time and money).
With that said, I am thinking of getting HareToday chicken and have been trying to figure out the 80/10/10 chicken ground mix. I'm not a math wiz and would probably need to bust out the Excel spreadsheet if I want to trust my math... So rather than reinventing the wheel, I'm hoping someone on this forum can recommend what to purchase to get the right ratio....I would like to do a 3 months supply or so to start w/ (and try to take advantage of the $$ cost savings in this vs. the RadCat option).
I'm very confused about how much of what I need to get and am throwing out there what I'm looking at on HareToday:
-10 lbs of ground chicken/bones/organs (given the 68% meat 27% bone 5% organ [liver])
-x? lbs ground chicken organ?
-x? lbs ground chicken breast?
Once I get the chicken meat ratio right, I'm hoping it will be much easier for me to calculate the supplements from the catnutrition.com recipe based on 4.4lbs of meat...
Is there a cost effective ready made supplement if including all the correct meat/bone/organ ratios (i.e. was looking at the TCFeline Pre-Mix but it's only for boneless meat only)?
And is there a calculator out there that can help with these detailed calculations/quantities/ratios?
Thank you!
