Meal Prep 1 | Prey Model Raw 

John Vu Thanks! Yes it's quite a lot. On average a raw fed dog eats 2-3 percent of their bodyweight on a daily basis. Some dogs have a relatively high or low metabolic rate, Mojo in this case eats 3.3%. Over 5 weeks this sums up to 17.5 kgs!

Definitely!

Thank you! Yes, she does enjoy her food indeed. Today it's prep day again, actually. I might film it again! Great to hear, I hope the transition goes smoothly!

Thank you!! Hope you have fun feeding your dogs raw! :)

Thank you Samantha! We're very happy we decided to go with this type of flooring!

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Haha! I will upload another meal prep video soon :)

Just curious, how much does it cost for you to get Kangaroo? It's reasonably expensive in Australia (where obviously the kangaroos come from.) so does it cost a lot for you?

It's perfectly okay to use 10% liver, a friend of mine recently calculated it :) But yeah, it's better to use more variety! Haha, this was the first DIY prep I did. I have done a few now and they al vary from 22 to 28 grams lol! Kangaroo was €6 per kilogram, not expensive at all! Rabbit is €5,60 and deer/llama are €5 :)

Bandit The-Reactive-Spitz im Indian do you have a spare toilet?

I was thinking the same thing. Or Dutch😊

Lol! We're lucky to find these types of meat here.

I'm new too. Guess it depends where u live... I live in the US and found the following highly recommended raw dog food online suppliers so ck them out: Hare today, Raw Paw, Raw feeding Miami, My pet Carnivore & k-9 Kraving. Thankfully I found a local supplier which will safe me in shipping. Hope this helped.

Glad you're happy with the diet as well! I've been feeding both dogs a raw diet from the day they joined our family. Home prepping was the first time for me when I made this video, in the past, we used to buy boxes of premade raw. I much prefer to prep it myself! Do you prep or feed premade, what do you prefer? I also switch between types of liver, kidney, testicles, etc to get as much variation as possible

I prep the food myself as well. I buy the meat directly from a butcher. But, being in India means that the types of meat are limited to only a certain variety. For example, I can't buy beef because cows are sacred in India. Even though I want to feed my dogs beef. I like beef as well. I'm not religious at all. I buy as much red meat as possible. Dogs and wolves prefer red meat over white meat, always. It's far more dense in fats, nutrients (vitamins and minerals) and it has more blood; which they absolutely love! Also, on a side note, I have my dogs fast for two days before their eating day. This mimics how they would live in nature. Fasting promotes GH (growth hormone) and testosterone levels; it increases insulin sensitivity; it is the best way to detox the body as well as improve cognitive functions and it helps my dogs sleep better too. My approach to taking care of my dogs is to mimic nature as much as humanly possible.

I prefer red meats also, and usually go with wild shot. So we'd have rabbit, duck, hare, you name it. Sometimes a bit of chicken, but other than that we've got red. Plenty of fat as well, at least one fatty meat that makes up a good chunk of the diet. I would love to fast too, as it would resemble their feast and famine lifestyle that their entire digestive system (their stomach in particular) are designed for. Like I mentioned in a different reply, I exercise my dogs often and we have at least one high intensity session every day. I can't let them gorge because of that, but I do stretch it to once a day rather than twice like many people do. Additionally, since my dogs are small, they already suffer from hunger pukes sometimes when they eat once a day. They don't do well waiting any longer. Larger dogs (size that resembles wild carnivores) are much more capable of handling this. My dogs are also very wide-chested in comparison to many other breeds of dog, so bloat is always on my mind.

Thank you, Liz!

She is fed once a day :) Sometimes I take out a piece of her dinner for her to have at some point during the day, and most days she gets a dehydrated rabbit ear with fur. The fur helps her digestive system, similar to fibres do for us humans.

We live in the Netherlands so we use a website that delivers to our door. There are many amazing companies like this in other countries. Where do you live?

I agree! :) This was the first meal prep I did. If you check a more recent video, you can see that I take a very different approach :)

Hi Sada! Of course I would. Could you send us an email? I can explain it in detail there and send it over in an Excel file :) contact@mojoandfriends.blog

@@sportingwithstaffords yes.

Received the email, will respond soon! :)

Streylight Not everything! Cooked bones remain unsafe to feed and when feeding raw soft bone it's always important to observe your dog's eating habits! :)

Yes, that's right :) She eats 500 grams a day. Mojo just turned 3 in November

paul Walker From a Dutch website called DogMeat. If you're in the UK look for Naturaw, they offer even more than what I can get. I you're in the US go to Hare Today, Raw Feeding Miami, or Big Country Raw.

Great! I I'm in the states/So. Florida I use Raw Feeding Miami...also Raw K9 and Reel Raw

karma police Fijne webshop wel he? :)

mojoandfriends ja zker! Beste prijs/kwaliteit webshop die er is in NL, naar mijn weten!

Hi Breanna, sure! If you plan on feeding partial raw, would you feed one kibble and one raw meal a day? Some dogs can’t handle this, but for others it is totally fine. But getting back to the original question, a dog of his weight would eat an approximate amount of 60-80 grams of raw a day, so you can stick to 30-40 grams. This is 1-1.3 oz :) Then along with that, you can feed him half of the required amount of kibble.

mojoandfriends Thank you! Yes he will be getting separate meals. One has raw and the other will be his kibble.🙂

I prefer using the metric system for raw diets, as that is way more precise. A 17lb dog would weigh 7.7kg. An average dog eats anywhere from 2-3 % of its bodyweight in raw on a daily basis, on average (some dogs eat much more than that). If we go with the average 2.5%, your dog would need 192.5 grams of food per day. Depending on your dog's metabolic rate and body condition, you might need to feed slightly more or less than this amount :) 192.5 grams calculates back to 6.8 ounces.

appreciate your feedback thank you!

I believe that Agnes Aquino was possibly referring to weight-bearing bones 😊

I only cut up meat that comes in chunks that are too large to fit in the food container. We feed bone and organ daily, and some chunks of meat combined with bone and organ make for a meal that's too large. We feed soft flexible bone like poultry wings, they are necessary in a raw diet. Weight-bearing bones are indeed a no-go.

Yes, currently I do. Mojo is quite sensitive so it wouldn't be great to feed organ once weekly with heavy bone content that day, for example. It works just fine for me. I spend 4-5 hrs of prepping once every 5 weeks, which isn't too much for me tbh :) But I do buy to balance over 5 weeks and the bone content varies per day. Some days it's 8%, some days it's 12%. It just depends on the weight of the duck wing or duck neck she gets that day.

That makes sense, i supposed i'll leave it i do it now. My dogs aren't sensitive, but I wouldn't want to upset their system by suddenly feeding organ each day, since it can be rich and cause diarrhoea

Hello Toby. I do not feed plant material to dogs. For one, dogs do not need plant material. Second, my dog is prone to yeast issues (as do many other bull breeds), and feeding plant material adds a high amount of sugar, that will in turn feed the yeast. I do feed a small amount of oily fish, which is only necessary if a dog's diet mainly consists of farmed animals, which Mojo's doesn't. Wildshot meat and grassfed animals have a higher amount of Omega 3 fatty acids, so oily fish is less important if that is the main part of the diet. Coconut oil does not replace oily fish as it doesn't have omega 3 fatty acids. Mojo does eat raw eggs with shell, and I also have an eggshell powder I add a small amount of every once in a while. I do not add flaxseed oil because it's made of plant material dogs can't properly take up omega 3 fatty acids from plant material. Instead of feeding fish, I would suggest feeding krill oil.

I feed a prey model raw diet, not BARF. Vegetables and fruits are an optional part in a dog's diet given a dog can handle it. The prey model raw diet does not include vegetables.

@@sportingwithstaffords you don't agree that small 5% of vegetable is good in the raw diet? In the wild the wolves eat the contents of the herbivore's stomach along with it. I've been feeding my dogs flax seed oil for over a year in their raw diet as well as cod liver oil. I can't say which is making their coats shiny if not both in tandem. You've piqued my interest in saying dogs can't take up plant material. Ok new subscriber and I can see that this is old. Do you still share same sentiments on plant material concerning dogs?

Tibii Wolfie Sure! I'll calculate it to kgs and back to lbs afterwards, if you don't mind! Your dog weighs 105lbs = 47.5kg On average, a dog eats 2-3% of its bodyweight daily. For your dog: 2% equals 950 grams = 2lbs 0,3oz 3% equals 1425 grams = 3lbs 4,5 oz On average, it'll be intermediate: 2,5% equals 1187.5 grams = 2.5lbs 3.5 oz Going from 1187.5 grams daily, I'll round up to 1200 grams for ease. 80% meat equals 0.8*1200=960 grams (part of which comes from bone in meat such as wings) 10% bone equals 0.1*1200=120 grams which (which comes from bone in meat) 5% liver equals 60 grams 5% kidney or other offal equals 60 grams Need any other help? :)

Tibii Wolfie So that's 2 lb 2 oz meat, 4 oz bone, 2 oz liver, 2 oz other organ :)

Yes, fresh food is expensive, but so are vet bills if you don't eat well :)

Yes. In Australia, kangaroo are everywhere. It's exported even, that's how we're able to get our hands on it. It's a nice lean meat :)

Fat is a great source of energy, and is very beneficial for dogs to consume (unless heated). Especially dogs that exercise a lot benefit from a diet with quite some fat. Some meats I feed are lean (hare, deer) and some are rich in fat (kangaroo, pork, beef).

Dwywaith dair That's an extremely nutrient deficient diet. You do you, but just be aware that this will harm a dog in the long run eventhough you won't notice it.

mojoandfriends Hi. Thank you. I'm not sure what "long-term" is because he's been on it five years since we had him, now he's 12.

Dwywaith dair Like I said, you won't notice everything. Nutrient deficiency doesn't even show up on bloodwork. The diet you listed lacks in many vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. There's no red meat, no organs. Too much calcium, too little phosphorus, no vitamin A, and I could go on. Although your dog might die from 'old age' it could suffer from the deficiencies. I'd recommend joining The Raw Feeding Community on facebook and sharing what you feed. I'd gladly help you feed your dog a balanced diet, just let me know.

mojoandfriends Thank you. Really appreciate. Your video, as I said, is excellent. But there is no research, no published study, on raw feeding. I can't find a cited source for the 80% meat, 10% bone recommendation, for example. I'd love one. And many raw feeders on RU-vid and elsewhere seem to suggest chicken carcasses are perfectly fine, adding nothing. Dogs are adaptive, of course. They are omnivore and are able to eat what's available. That's one reason why they're successful. Strays, throughout the world, devour what they can, mostly from human debris and detritus. The longest living dog was Bluey, an Aussie mutt, who was fed scraps of kangaroo meat and bone. He lived to 26. But your dog looks great and good for you for the way you feed. 👍

Although many people might share certain information (and yes, I have seen that shared before), it doesn't always mean that it's true. Indeed, to most people watching, I'm also just someone sharing a RU-vid video. But to explain it more indepth, I'd like to list that I graduated as an MSc in Animal Adaptation and Behavioural Biology. The final two years of my studies were fully focused on behaviour and nutrition of dogs. In a project I focused on canine nutrition for a few months, and I was familiarized with the minimal nutritional requirements for dogs to survive. Although there is a clear lack in scientific research on raw feeding, there is ample research on minimum requirements in the canine diet. Knowing these minima and knowing the nutritional analysis of the components that I feed my dog, I know for a fact that I exceed these minima. As far as your dog's diet goes, it's a lengthy explanation, so I will focus on calcium and phosphorus. For kibble, the law is that the calcium:phosphorus balance has to ideally be 1:1 or at max 1:2 or the other way around. A diet that consists of roughly 50% red meat and 10% bone equals to a 1:1 balance of calcium and phosphorus over time. You are currently feeding approximately 40% bone and no red meat. The balance (without calculating) is around 1:4. This incorrect balance can have disastrous consequences for the dog's skeleton. Just because a species is adaptive and CAN survive on a certain type of food (dogs can even survive on a herbivorous diet if they have to), doesn't mean they SHOULD or that it is healthy for them. I hope this helps :)

SuperSayainJesus No, the fur she ingests works as a dietary fiber. Dogs have no need for plant material

I am aware. Thing is, I didn't notice the fur.

SuperSayainJesus Ah, sorry. Mojo gets a dehydrated rabbit ear with fur every other day. I did mention it in one of our meal prep vlogs, but it might have been a different one :)

Gerald Clay She's trained properly, like every pet should be. But yes, our birds are quite annoying at times. Very fun animals though :)

@@sportingwithstaffords Some people just aren't animal people. Our bird is quite lovely, chirping and singing and just primping and sitting most of the time. The only time it's a bit annoying is in the morning or evenings when it occasionally gets overly excited and wants attention. Lovely fur & feather pals you have there, the both of them. They're lucky to have you.

Goe N. Phucyersaylf it's very important to ensure a proper balance. However you do it, you must meet minimal requirements. The way I calculate it now is much easier, but still according to the same percentages.