Morning All!
I'm new here but I've been posting over at petforums uk for the past month or so. I have 2 kittens that are 4 months on Monday, I've fed them raw since I got them at nearly 11 weeks.
Due to limited freezer space I buy their meat every 2 weeks and make 12 x 400g containers which I feed them 70g of per meal, 3 times a day. They weigh about 2kg so they're getting around 10% of their weight.
In each container goes:
300g meat - 1/2 chicken thighs, then the other half always pork shoulder or turkey thighs but sometimes a fancy meat like lamb, duck, venison or quail that I managed to get reduced on special
~40g bone - in the form of 2 wing tips and 2 flat sections, hit a few times with a rolling pin. (The meat on the wings makes up that missing 20g)
20g liver - pork or lamb
20g kidney - pork
Once a week I give them egg yolk and on another day I'll give them some pilchards or sardines. They don't much like cooked fish, so I have to mix it in. I also have ground up eggshells and working with the 1/2tsp per lb numbers, I sprinkle less than 1/8tsp on each meal. Im not very scientific with it because they are eating 80-100% of the wing bones. I read somewhere that the true percentage of bone should be closer to 8%, their poo is well formed yet squishy (like a ball of blu-tack or playdough) and has been consistantly for over a month.
My question: I tried to source an alternative to the kidney but the butchers just don't stock anything else. In terms of meat, they're no longer fussy but I know they like chicken best. They are most likely to get chicken, turkey and pork always or maybe something else but that's not guaranteed. Is that enough variety???
I'm new here but I've been posting over at petforums uk for the past month or so. I have 2 kittens that are 4 months on Monday, I've fed them raw since I got them at nearly 11 weeks.
Due to limited freezer space I buy their meat every 2 weeks and make 12 x 400g containers which I feed them 70g of per meal, 3 times a day. They weigh about 2kg so they're getting around 10% of their weight.
In each container goes:
300g meat - 1/2 chicken thighs, then the other half always pork shoulder or turkey thighs but sometimes a fancy meat like lamb, duck, venison or quail that I managed to get reduced on special
~40g bone - in the form of 2 wing tips and 2 flat sections, hit a few times with a rolling pin. (The meat on the wings makes up that missing 20g)
20g liver - pork or lamb
20g kidney - pork
Once a week I give them egg yolk and on another day I'll give them some pilchards or sardines. They don't much like cooked fish, so I have to mix it in. I also have ground up eggshells and working with the 1/2tsp per lb numbers, I sprinkle less than 1/8tsp on each meal. Im not very scientific with it because they are eating 80-100% of the wing bones. I read somewhere that the true percentage of bone should be closer to 8%, their poo is well formed yet squishy (like a ball of blu-tack or playdough) and has been consistantly for over a month.
My question: I tried to source an alternative to the kidney but the butchers just don't stock anything else. In terms of meat, they're no longer fussy but I know they like chicken best. They are most likely to get chicken, turkey and pork always or maybe something else but that's not guaranteed. Is that enough variety???
