feeding raw on a budget

[erik440]

I tried this and my dogs got sum runny s**t any way I can prevent this thanks

[EWO]

just like any switch it takes time. Once the transition is complete you will have less shit and less water intake. It works the same as switching brands of dry food, a complete switch with no transition time mixing the two and odds are the dogs will have the squirts. As the old folks say, 'they can shit thru screen wire'.

[erik440]

EIts been about two weeks of feeding the one cup of rice half Chi Ken quarter and the multi vit. With lard and still got the runs any way to make the stool harder thanks

[OGDOGG]

Did you cook the rice?
http://i.imgur.com/fihyE.jpg
I've been feeding the same way you describe for 4 almost 5 years and their stool are always med-hard. They don't drink much water so make sure to fill the bowl 3/4 with water. In that picture I added vegetables and cooking oil to it. If you can afford it, add a raw egg to that diet.

[CRISIS]

brown rice, raw chicken quarter, 1 softboiled egg, and 1 daily multivtamin..............

[erik440]

Yes i cook the rice

[OGDOGG]

I'd give it a month before you see any difference. If not then change their diet.

[erik440]

Change the diet to what

[OGDOGG]

Use other meats, add an egg, add vegetables, add more rice, less chicken. Do whatever it takes to get them used to eating raw at the amount that makes them look their best, or shit better.

[BSK]

Too much fat will give em the runs too. How much lard u giving?

[erik440]

Host enough about tap of lard

[CRISIS]

add more bone to the diet- it helped mine.....

[CRISIS]

chicken feet r good

[EWO]

It takes a few weeks, sometimes less and sometimes longer. Every dog is different. The rice was key to my switch over. I used a lot more rice in the switch than I do today. It is nothing more than a filler but it can help tighten up the turd as well. It takes time for their body to adjust. Mine had spent years taking 20 plus hours to digest the corn and cardboard food I was giving and then the digestive track was finishing up the raw feed in no time. The digestive tract must have been sitting around spinning its wheels with all the free time. The lower intestines were confused by not having to dump a cow pie three or four times a day. So in this somewhat stressful environment the stool gets loose. ( This as medicinal as I can get). Add more rice, cut back on the lard or cooking oil fat in the beginning and use more natural fats like straight chicken fat or beef fat. Walmart sells cow cheek. It is a pretty fatty cut but the dogs do well with it. EWO

[CRISIS]

yeah im using pig hide with the fat still attached.......well see how it goes, gotta be better than lard.....