I am trying to come up with a ground food recipe for my feral who inhales RAD so fast I want to give her a straw. RAD is very expensive for me ( I have 2 kitties, one feral Burmese who loves raw, and a Tortie who hates it and prefers junky Friskies canned. Both were adopted. The Burmese escaped the breeders and the Tortie, well, I have a feeling she was adopted and returned several times for behavioral problems. A lot of love and patience got rid of the bad behavior, but she must have eaten store food most of her 3 years because she loves her carbs and grains. Tried her on raw and she screamed her head off. I guess I will have to do the add a little at a time thing. Anyway, I have put together a recipe based on using a whole store bought chicken and some other protiens, but want to make sure I haven't left anything out and have the right ratios. Please help!
Raw Cat Food Diet Recipe Made WITH Bones
4.4 pounds raw muscle meat with bones (light and dark meat from chicken or turkey and remove20 to 25 percent of the bone. Will try lamb and pork in addition to poultry)
14 oz raw heart (chicken heart; if no heart is available, substitute with 4000 mg Taurine)
7 oz raw chicken liver (don't use beef liver; if Ican't find appropriate liver, substitute 40,000 IU of Vitamin A and 1600 IU of Vitamin D)
NOTE: If you cannot find the heart or liver and decide to substitute with the Taurine/Vitamin A and D, then remember to REPLACE the missing amount of organ meat with the equivalent amount of muscle meat. In other words, if you cannot find heart, you add another 400 grams of the meat/bones. If you can't find the liver, add another 200 grams of meat/bone.
16 oz [2 cups] water
4 raw egg yolks ***
4 capsules raw glandular supplement, such as, for example, multigland supplement by Immoplex. - What is this stuff?
200 mg Vitamin B-50 complex (i.e., four capsules of B-50)
1.5 tsp. Lite salt (with iodine)
Vitamin E- though I don't know how much, and do I add before or after freezing?
NOTE: If I will not be using the food immediately and freezing for more than a week or two, I need to toss in 4000 mg of additional Taurine to make up for what may get lost during storage. It is also not a bad idea to sprinkle extra Taurine from a capsule on the food as you're serving it two or three times a week, just to be certain your cat is getting plenty of this critical amino acid.
1. Remove about half of the skin from the muscle meat. Chunk up (i.e., cut) as much of the muscle meat (minus most of the skin if using chicken or turkey, but leave skin on if using rabbit) as you can stand into bite-sized (nickel-sized, approximately) pieces. Save the chunked meat for later. Do not grind it. In my case, I will be grinding it as my feral will not eat chunks, she likes her finely ground - goes through the straw easier.
2. Grind the raw liver, any skin, raw meaty bones, and raw heart. Once ground, stir this meat/bone mixture well and return to refrigerator.
3. Fill a bowl with 2 cups of water and whisk everything (non-meat). If you had to replace liver with Vitamin A/D or replace heart with Taurine, add the substitutes now. Finally, put the three mixtures together--the "supplement slurry" that you have just mixed, the ground up meat/bone/organs, and the chunks of meat that you cut up by hand. Portion into containers and freeze.
Don't overfill the containers. The food expands when frozen and you don't want lids popping off. Thaw as you go. The food shouldn't be left thawed in the refrigerator more than 48 hours before serving. To serve, portion into a 'zipper baggie' and warm under hot water in the sink. NEVER microwave the food. Cats like their food at something approximating "mouse body temperature."
*Every day, sprinke a capsul of Krill oil on to the cats' food.
***If you don't want to waste the egg whites, poach them, grind them, and throw them in with the food. A nice phosphorus-free source of protein.
Anything else? Thank you all!
Lei Ann
Raw Cat Food Diet Recipe Made WITH Bones
4.4 pounds raw muscle meat with bones (light and dark meat from chicken or turkey and remove20 to 25 percent of the bone. Will try lamb and pork in addition to poultry)
14 oz raw heart (chicken heart; if no heart is available, substitute with 4000 mg Taurine)
7 oz raw chicken liver (don't use beef liver; if Ican't find appropriate liver, substitute 40,000 IU of Vitamin A and 1600 IU of Vitamin D)
NOTE: If you cannot find the heart or liver and decide to substitute with the Taurine/Vitamin A and D, then remember to REPLACE the missing amount of organ meat with the equivalent amount of muscle meat. In other words, if you cannot find heart, you add another 400 grams of the meat/bones. If you can't find the liver, add another 200 grams of meat/bone.
16 oz [2 cups] water
4 raw egg yolks ***
4 capsules raw glandular supplement, such as, for example, multigland supplement by Immoplex. - What is this stuff?
200 mg Vitamin B-50 complex (i.e., four capsules of B-50)
1.5 tsp. Lite salt (with iodine)
Vitamin E- though I don't know how much, and do I add before or after freezing?
NOTE: If I will not be using the food immediately and freezing for more than a week or two, I need to toss in 4000 mg of additional Taurine to make up for what may get lost during storage. It is also not a bad idea to sprinkle extra Taurine from a capsule on the food as you're serving it two or three times a week, just to be certain your cat is getting plenty of this critical amino acid.
1. Remove about half of the skin from the muscle meat. Chunk up (i.e., cut) as much of the muscle meat (minus most of the skin if using chicken or turkey, but leave skin on if using rabbit) as you can stand into bite-sized (nickel-sized, approximately) pieces. Save the chunked meat for later. Do not grind it. In my case, I will be grinding it as my feral will not eat chunks, she likes her finely ground - goes through the straw easier.
2. Grind the raw liver, any skin, raw meaty bones, and raw heart. Once ground, stir this meat/bone mixture well and return to refrigerator.
3. Fill a bowl with 2 cups of water and whisk everything (non-meat). If you had to replace liver with Vitamin A/D or replace heart with Taurine, add the substitutes now. Finally, put the three mixtures together--the "supplement slurry" that you have just mixed, the ground up meat/bone/organs, and the chunks of meat that you cut up by hand. Portion into containers and freeze.
Don't overfill the containers. The food expands when frozen and you don't want lids popping off. Thaw as you go. The food shouldn't be left thawed in the refrigerator more than 48 hours before serving. To serve, portion into a 'zipper baggie' and warm under hot water in the sink. NEVER microwave the food. Cats like their food at something approximating "mouse body temperature."
*Every day, sprinke a capsul of Krill oil on to the cats' food.
***If you don't want to waste the egg whites, poach them, grind them, and throw them in with the food. A nice phosphorus-free source of protein.
Anything else? Thank you all!
Lei Ann
