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I do still have a few questions ..want to make sure I am calculating portions right.

Bear weighs 64 # so I mutiplied that by 2% (he is overweight) and got 1.28 # per day. So I figure I will feed 1/2 # per meal.

64# x 2%= 1.28 lbs.  Remember that the 0.28 is NOT oz but the percentage of a pound, (so you need to figure out a little over 1/4 of 16 oz)       

0.28 of 16oz (or 1 lb) is 4.48 oz.  So (1 lb) 16oz + 4.48 oz (which is the 0.28) = 20.48 oz per day. divided by 2 = 10.24 oz per meal.

I would not go crazy trying to get the measurements precise. You do not need to make every single meal equal and balanced. You need to make his OVERALL diet as balanced as you can get it. So a few meals more and a few meals less is perfectly fine.  Same with the organ/bone ratios. You do not need to make sure every single meal is that perfect 80/10/10 ratio.

8 oz (1/2 #) x .80 meat is 6 oz meat, 8 oz x .10 is about 2 oz organ and 2 oz bone. Does this sound right?

20.48oz per day x 10%= 2.048oz per day : 1.024 per meal

Again, I would not go crazy trying to make sure every meal has 1 oz organ and 1 oz bone. I buy bone in chicken breasts and feed the pack til it's gone. Then the next meat type will be boneless. If I feed boneless for more than 3 or 4 days I give her a raw egg with the shell. She gets chicken livers every day for maybe a week to 10 days every 5 weeks or so. If she has very white poops I give more boneless meat. If she has to try very hard to poop at all I give more bone. So far there really hasn't been much variation in her poops, maybe a few times she has had very white chalky poos, or had to strain, but it really does seem to work itself out in the long run.

I also notice I use alot of meat and have plenty of bone left but I don't eant to feed too much bone. I have had it in fridge since yesterday. Should I throw it out?

what kind of meat/bone is it? I noticed that meat(pork) that smelled so bad I had to take it outside to put it in their bowls had Audrey literally drooling like octapus tentacles. She LOVED it! I would not throw it away after just a day in the fridge! 

Bear LOVES his raw meat and I have noticed he is not itching or licking as much.

YAY!

I do have to say it is very hard work seperating meat from bone but it is all worth it!

You probably don't have to go through all that work! What kind of meat is it that you are separating from the bone?

Do you seperate meat from bone & package them seperately? There's got to be an easier way to do this.

No I don't separate then save the bones.  The only time I cut the meat away from the bone is if it is large pork bones. If the bones are too big to chop with a meat cleaver then I don't give them to my dogs. Remember though that I have a 13 year old dog that has bad teeth because she ate kibble most of her life and Audrey who is missing most of her big molars so she can't handle bone well at all. If they eat chicken, and my husband can chop the bones into bite sized chunks, I do not separate the bone and meat. Some meals they'll get more bone chunks than meat chunks, some they will get more meat, sometimes there are lots of skin pieces, sometimes not. It all evens itself out in the long run.

And the butcher cuts it up into bone-in thighs, breasts, wings. He says he has to charge me for the whole chicken. Weird?