Grissom is concluding his second week on his raw diet- and his week and a half of solid stools, the longest he's ever been solid in about six months. we are thrilled. (Annie wants his food SO bad. We're putting her on raw as soon as she finishes her bag of Innova puppy, in a few weeks)
He's 22lbs, and eating a half pound each day, split into two meals of roughly 1/4lb. Some meals are bigger, some are smaller. We eyeballed it.
All of his meals have been cut from Chicken Quarters, and all have included bone content.
He has handled it very week, and really enjoyed it, other than raw egg. I tried to get him to eat one this morning, and it was the first time he has ever turned his nose up at anything. I mean, the dog eats poop for crying out loud, but won't eat egg?!
I have a week's worth of chicken left, but will be going to the store in a couple days, and wanted to check in with all you experts and see what to buy. No stores around here have turkey necks in right now, and the one I shop at (wal mart) says they never do, the rest said they sometimes have them, sometimes don't, and couldn't tell me if they'd have them anytime soon. We have no idependent butchers here, all I have to work with are chain stores.:frown:
I saw pork necks very reasonably priced. Since he's handling it well, would it totally ruin his progress to go pork next? I've read a couple different guidelines, both in RFD's sig, and on the yahoo group, and everything says something different. Some say introduce one new meat a week after two weeks, some say add them whenever and see how it goes. Some say do just chicken for a month.
I know my questions are probably dumb, just after his history with digestion issues, I don't want to screw anything up- he's doing SO well.
He's 22lbs, and eating a half pound each day, split into two meals of roughly 1/4lb. Some meals are bigger, some are smaller. We eyeballed it.
All of his meals have been cut from Chicken Quarters, and all have included bone content.
He has handled it very week, and really enjoyed it, other than raw egg. I tried to get him to eat one this morning, and it was the first time he has ever turned his nose up at anything. I mean, the dog eats poop for crying out loud, but won't eat egg?!
I have a week's worth of chicken left, but will be going to the store in a couple days, and wanted to check in with all you experts and see what to buy. No stores around here have turkey necks in right now, and the one I shop at (wal mart) says they never do, the rest said they sometimes have them, sometimes don't, and couldn't tell me if they'd have them anytime soon. We have no idependent butchers here, all I have to work with are chain stores.:frown:
I saw pork necks very reasonably priced. Since he's handling it well, would it totally ruin his progress to go pork next? I've read a couple different guidelines, both in RFD's sig, and on the yahoo group, and everything says something different. Some say introduce one new meat a week after two weeks, some say add them whenever and see how it goes. Some say do just chicken for a month.
I know my questions are probably dumb, just after his history with digestion issues, I don't want to screw anything up- he's doing SO well.