Supplementing small batches?

[dorimon]

Hi everyone

I'm putting together an order of several 1-pound whole-carcass grinds (rabbit, quail, mouse, cavy) from Hare-Today.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to supplement these small portions of meat, since most recipes are for 3+ pounds of meat.

My plan is to mix the supplements for 5 pounds, and then to add 1/5 of the slurry to each pound of meat.  Is there anything I need to be aware of or take into account?

The following mixture would be for 5 pounds of meat (I excluded iodine since all the whole-carcass grinds include thyroid):

• 16 oz (2 cups) filtered water
• 4 raw egg yolks
• 4000 mg taurine powder
• 5000 mg wild salmon oil (1 tsp Pure Paw Pure Alaskan Salmon Oil)
• 400 IU vitamin E (1 capsule NOW Foods Dry E-400)
• 200 mg vitamin B complex (4 capsules NOW Foods B-50)

After I determine which proteins Coco and Callie will eat, I plan to order the 5-pound packages rather than the 1-pound ones.

Any thoughts/feedback/tips?

 

[abby2932]

Looks like an expensive order! Your kitties will have a very refined palate in a few weeks [emoji]128521[/emoji]

Have you seen this recipe:
http://feline-nutrition.org/nutrition/making-raw-cat-food-for-do-it-yourselfers

It is a very reputable website and their homemade raw recipe is approximately 5.8 pounds. Your supplement amounts are pretty equivalent to theirs. I think you're using more Vitamin E than they do but I don't know if it's excessive or not.

I hope they like everything! My cats have had the rabbit, mouse & cavies and they ate them all with gusto. Never tried the quail though.

 

[dorimon]

Have you seen this recipe:
http://feline-nutrition.org/nutrition/making-raw-cat-food-for-do-it-yourselfers

It is a very reputable website and their homemade raw recipe is approximately 5.8 pounds. Your supplement amounts are pretty equivalent to theirs. I think you're using more Vitamin E than they do but I don't know if it's excessive or not.

Oops, that was a mistake on my part!  It also seems like I'm slightly over-supplementing vitamin B as well.  I'm trying to make my recipe fall somewhere between the Feline Nutrition one and Dr. Pierson's... I should be safe that way, right? 

Feline Nutrition uses 200 IU vitamin E and 200 mg vitamin B for ~5.8 pounds, and Dr. Pierson uses 400 IU vitamin E and 50 mg vitamin B for 3 pounds.

Updated supplement list:

• 16 oz (2 cups) filtered water
• 4 raw egg yolks
• 4000 mg taurine powder
• 5000 mg wild salmon oil (1 tsp Pure Paw Pure Alaskan Salmon Oil)
• 400 IU vitamin E (1 capsule NOW Foods Dry E-400)
• 150 mg vitamin B complex (3 capsules NOW Foods B-50)

 

[dorimon]

Updating once again after doing some more math:

• 16 oz (2 cups) filtered water
• 3 raw egg yolks
• 3,000 mg taurine powder
• 3,750 mg wild salmon oil (¾ tsp Pure Paw  Pure Alaskan Salmon Oil)
• 400 IU vitamin E (1 capsule NOW Foods  Dry E-400)
• 150 mg vitamin B complex (3 capsules NOW Foods  B-50)

This is a comparison of the recipes I'm referencing:

	Dr. Pierson (CatInfo.org)	Feline Nutrition	Anne Jablonski (Cat Nutrition)	My recipe
Raw egg yolks	~3.3 (optional)	~3.4	~3.45	3
Taurine powder	~3,333  mg	~1,720 mg	~3,489 mg	3,000 mg
Fish oil	~8,333  – ~16,667 mg	~3,441 mg	~3,489 mg	3,750 mg
Vitamin E	~667  IU	~172 IU	~698 IU	400 IU
Vitamin B complex	~83  mg	~172 mg	~174 mg	150 mg