It sounds like Premium/Holistic/Natural dog foods are the way to go

[Sam I Am]

Originally Posted by deegers

Sam, can you explain your raw diet for you dogs and where do you get it? Do you do it yourself? I know one lady who orders it special. I wanted to see if it's cheaper than dry dog food. I know it's better since dogs are naturally predators..

Here was a post I made a while back on raw...it's post #5 - we feed a herd, so it is much cheaper for us to go this route. The only correction I will make is that I feed slightly more than a half back now twice a day and a little less on the veggies just because they stay leaner with a higher meat ratio. Depending on what size dog you have, you might want to grind up the chicken backs - we also alternate out backs with liver or jack mack (or free fish if someone catches too much) periodically - I don't know if that was list, but it varies their diet. If I can get fresh organ meat this time of year from the hunters I use that as well. Just click on the link - there have been several discussions on this in the past few months.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/dogs/...-dog-food.html

[deegers]

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

Here was a post I made a while back on raw...it's post #5 - we feed a herd, so it is much cheaper for us to go this route. The only correction I will make is that I feed slightly more than a half back now twice a day and a little less on the veggies just because they stay leaner with a higher meat ratio. Depending on what size dog you have, you might want to grind up the chicken backs - we also alternate out backs with liver or jack mack (or free fish if someone catches too much) periodically - I don't know if that was list, but it varies their diet. If I can get fresh organ meat this time of year from the hunters I use that as well. Just click on the link - there have been several discussions on this in the past few months.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/dogs/...-dog-food.html

Great! Thanks Sam!