RAW question =chicken only
Submitted by daisysdad on February 9, 2011 - 5:50amBoth my male and female are on a raw diet for about a year now.
Im happy to say all their ailments are all gone and are very happy and doing wonderful.
My concern is that chicken and a raw egg with the shell is the only things that seem to agree with them.
Is it ok to just feed chicken only I usually add the egg about 2 feedings a week.
What have to tried to feed
What have to tried to feed that hasn't agreed with them, I really think you should try to get more of a variety than just chicken and eggs, some kind of red meat would be good for them. When you say dosn't agree with them what happens?
Pork gives them the runs
Pork gives them the runs really bad I have fed some chop meat but thought the chicken with the bones would be better
as far as other red meat the bones seem really hard compared to the chicken?
The time I gave them red meat in the beginning made their stools liquidly and soft.
Yeah the bones in red meat
Yeah the bones in red meat are hard, I would stick with the chicken for their bone content. What cuts of chicken are you feeding. If you gave a whole meal of pork that could easily cause the runs, I would try to give some boneless meat either pork or beef along with some bone-in chicken and see how they do. If they are ok with that then you could gradually increase the amount of meat vs the chicken. How many times a day are you feeding? What other meats have you tried to feed, have you tried turkey, fish ect.
agree, stick with chicken bones
and feed boneless red meat. I think beef is pretty safe, it's not a regularly enhanced meat.
Cathy and Audrey
I would try to add some red meat
just a little bit at a time. If they got runny poop in the beginning, maybe it was just too soon to add the red meat. Pork very frequently is enhanced, and that can cause VERY loose stools. Organ meat also is very important because that is where they get many of their vitamins and minerals. Beef liver is typically recommended to be about 5% of their diet. Liver can cause very loose stools also, so I would recommend trying some beef first, or lamb.
Eggs are the only protein source that have ALL the amino acids, so definitely keep feeding the eggs.
Cathy and Audrey
Thank you everyone for your
Thank you everyone for your suggestions I will definitely try and incorporate some red meat.
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They get Leg quarters and
They get Leg quarters and thighs mostly some times friends of min drop off backs and gizzards the remains from their fresh kill chickens.
I feed them once in the morning and once at night.
they average about 1.5 lbs of chicken a day.