The Cheapest Raw Food I Could Find For My Dog
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Raw meat can be pricey depending on what you buy and where, but it can also be one of the cheapest meals you can feed your dog when comparing it to higher quality/higher priced kibble and canned food!
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Sometimes raw feeding can be expensive if a dog has allergies/sensitivities, but when I compared the price for a meal of hypoallergenic kibble vs hypoallergenic raw feeding (Rabbit, quail, fish, some vegetables, etc) the price was almost the same. Except there are too many fillers in the kibble for a very high price.
That's so true!
I love the fact that you don't force people's dog's or cat's to be on a raw diet but instead try to teach dog, and cat keepers about what your pets should eat vs what they shouldn't.
BTW love this channel. Keep it up.
You are so kind, thank you so much!
I agree. Pretty much another reason I love this channel. :)
As a broke student I've found my ways around stores to make my dog's monthly food for about 40€,sometimes less, sometimes more, but only 4-5 proteins (that's what's only available in my country)
exactly i am also a broke university student. i put a lot of time in calling around places going into ethnic stores etc. people are too lazy and have negative stereotypes on other ethnic groups.
I really commend you for that!!
I love your videos, I’ve been raw feeding for YEARS and you help teach me something new in every video ❤️
I really appreciate it :) !
Even my dog who needs 3.5pounds a day right now would only be 7$/day on these prices. Not that bad. On kibbles he’s a 7.50$/day and on commercial raw, 12$/day. For me, the cheapest is the homemade raw!
(a year late, but still :)) This gives me hope! I'll be getting a doberman soon, and tho I haven't FULLY researched and planned the raw yet, I'm positive their daily need will be closer to yours. If you don't mind me asking, What kind of dog you have? Hope you and them are well (as it's been a yr).
I knew this video would be very foreign to me, as I heard meat is expensive in the US (although it is crazy expensive with everything that's going on in Brazil now.)
But it's even more than I thought! Most of the chops you were excited to find are the absolute easiest to find here. Chicken backs, beef tongue, chicken gizzards, paws. Easy and very cheap in local butchers! The bone content is almost always the cheapest part of the meal, so I try to give bones that contain a higher percentage of meat on them. Wing tips are my favourite to feed, they are the perfect size for cats. But shortening it up, last we made batch was R$10,70/kg. The kibble we used to feed them costs R$14,50/kg. That blew my mind!!!
By the way I calculated everything, supplements and fresh extra foods included (except for the yogurt and quail eggs, which are about R$2 and R$5 and lasts my two cats about 3 WEEKS). Still cheaper than kibble! Besides the health problems/health care costs we would always have when feeding kibble, even though they are healthy cats. I literally watched expensive/reoccurent health issues fade away after just transitioning them to raw. If you count that in, even though you may buy expensive meats sometimes, it's absurdly cheaper.
Também moro no Brasil e comecei a alimentar minha gatinha filhote com carne crua, ela em apenas uma semana está muito mais energética e parece muito mais saudável, quase dobrou de tamanho nessa semana :)
@@saiphyart minha gatinha adulta quando comecei a dar só a alimentação natural a mudança foi instamtanea, ela rejusveneceu dois anos, tá muito mais linda, amorosa, e problemas de saúde que ela nao tinha na rua e passou a ter quando adotamos e demos só ração desapareceram. Acho difícil sua gatinha ter problema de saúde começando tao cedo a comer bem, só lembra de balancear a dieta pra garantir, o bem que faz pra eles é enooooooorme
Have two 80lb GSD, tried out the raw meal prep for about 6 months. Dogs loved the food but just couldn’t find good deals in California.
Hope to give it another try somewhat soon.
Awh, yes. Location does play a part in this for sure.
As a fellow raw feeder I love your channel!
Ahhhhh I love your videos, brings joy to me first this in the morning ❤️
Aw, that means so much to hear!! ^___^
I can listen to this girl talk all day.
this was great thank you! you should do doing raw food at ________ store! like "shelbizlee" does yt videos on "trying zero waste at ______ store" i think that would be really interesting. like a raw prep of only meats from walmart, target, whole foods, etc: doesn't necessarily have to be the budget type but just giving people options/ideas
Thanks for the idea!
I love your videos!
^__^
@@PawsofPrey - :)
Local farms have been great for me for organs. Near me, beef liver and heart are $0.99 a pound and beef tongue $1.98 a pound!
The nearest grocery store is an hour drive from me so using farmers is the only way I can go :)
Wow!! Lucky you!
This is helping me rethink how frustrated I have been feeling with the cost. Since my dog is a puppy, she eats 3x a day and 8.5 percent of her 30 lb weight which increases weekly. I’ve been wondering if I should just wait until she’s an adult for 100% raw and instead just top kibble with some raw items I find cheaply. Your video on puppy feeding was very helpful for balancing it correctly
Another thing I do to save money is to buy a whole chicken at $2.99 a pound and cut it up with a cleaver into pieces my dog can chew. Lots of muscle meat and raw meaty bone, and way cheaper than buying chicken parts at $4.99 to $6.99 a pound. (Of course, balanced with the other meats, organs, and supplements).
I’m so thankful that I found you! Love the quality of your videos, so informative!
FYI, what they call "Cornish Hens" are just young chickens. So it's just chicken meat :)
Love your channel and the quality of your videos!!! Learning so much from you, can’t thank you enough!!!
I'm so glad :3
Thank you SO much! This really gives my finances hope in feeding my upcoming dobe raw don't have to be TOO bad!
Really love your videos! I've started making my own raw meals at home using websites to properly balance them. My dogs love it! And they seem alot healthier, less shedding and healthier coat. Overall they seem happier. Thanks alot for your content! :)
I'm so happy to hear this!
Food Lion’s manager specials are how I keep costs down. They’re such money savers.
They really are!
It can definitely be cheap to do raw if you know what you're looking for!! Now that I've got ALL my items sourced out & know where to go, I can feed 20 dogs a 100% B.A.R.F Diet and spend less than I did buying pallets of kibble every month..
Check the end of the meat aisle for discounted meats. Early mornings are ususaly best.
Thank you I'm definitely going to give my little markets a visit. My dog is allergic to any cheap dog food and the only thing that works for him that is in my price range is Rachel rays salmon food or her steak. For some reason the Rachel ray isnt working right now for him so im going to have to switch back over to raw. He loves raw food so much and 100% of his problems dissappear whenever he is on raw. I try to put other owners onto raw as well but they think it'll make their dog vicious 🙄 lol when he had his first allergic reaction he lost so much fur that it looked like he had mange and it was breaking my heart. His muscles were so stiff that he could barely walk and he didnt want to play...he just wanted to sleep. After i discovered that he's allergic i quickly switched him over to raw and he bounced back to his normal self within 3 days. He was jumping around like a puppy and had so much energy 🥰 and he grew all of his fur back within 2 weeks. And his fur was so shiny that he looked like a show dog
you should try whole frozen sardine then you put it on the ban saw. you can cook the sardine in a bone broth if you are uncomfortable about feeding raw fish.
bulk whole frozen sardine are shadow fire btw.
Awesome video!
I'm in awe at these prices cause in Sweden meats like porkchop from Sweden or grinded meat from Sweden always cost 8 - 14 dollar per kilo in our supermarkets o.o
Oh my! Well, you're probably paying for better quality honestly.
Yeah I guess so!
Same here in Quebec, Canada. Even gizzards and liver is about 9-10$/kg!!!
@@Fouifsnoodle Yeah. That's a lot of money! :o
Every time I watch your videos I'm always like "why can't I feed my dogs for that cheap" and then remember that I have three Great Danes that collectively weigh about 400 lbs. The people at my grocery probably think I'm insane whenever I go in on my meal prep days and check out with 60 lbs of meat and organs + one thing of almond milk for my coffee, lmao! But still, it's about the same cost as a "quality" kibble and worth the time investment and sacrificing the majority of my fridge space for sure! Love your videos btw, I've been feeding raw for about three years and have learned so much from your channel :)
I seriously commend giant breed raw feeders! And you have THREE! :O
@@PawsofPrey My parents have two as well, the house is basically a zoo whenever I go to visit haha! And their boy is seriously the biggest guy I've ever seen, he's only 2 years and is already almost 200 pounds with some filling out to do still. My biggest is only 132 lbs and Bear makes him look like a chihuahua! I do not envy the amount they have to feed him, its like throwing food into a black hole :,)
I have a Dane and a dobie mix and we buy commercially sold raw food. Recently I’ve become a full time student so we were thinking of switching to kibble until I’m done but this put into perspective how much we’ve been wasting on our dog food already 😅
Absolutely just put on gloves or wash your hands after prepping the meal yourself so you can save more money
I have 4 highly active Rottweilers to feed.. im at $18 with supplements about $20 a day right now to feed almost 500lbs of dog lol. I'm hoping to cut my costs this video helped a lot!
Speaking of cheap, I happened to get a good chicken haul at WalMart the other day. Got a total of 40lbs of chicken (quarters and drumsticks) that was on sale for $20.
Wow great find!
Great video. I saw someone else mention it as well. It is expensive for a allergy high pup such as my puppy. Also I'd love to see it done for a large dog. My puppy alone eats over 2 pounds of food and has a lot of allergies. I think a video about that might be helpful for new comers who are doing the switch because of allergies
It's certainly true! But hypoallergenic commercial food is also expensive, so it can be a toss up. Good idea though! I'll note it
@@PawsofPrey totally agree with you. I have a special case were my puppy can't even eat the hypo allergenic foods as they still have ingredients in them he can't have. Just got a special boy haha
As someone who knows the livestock industry, beef is the least altered meat.
I would ad a few plants like a few blueberry and a baby carrot
This is a great video right here
The problem I have is I have 3 85lbs or more German shepherds
Do you feed him once a day? Or twice a day?
I just found your channel, thanks for the amazing content, it really isn't too expensive to feed them raw. I have a question, is there no problem with the salt listed in the canned sardines?
I get no-added-salt cans of sardines for my dog. I'm lucky that I have a Grocery Outlet (discount groceries) with canned sardines for $0.79 or $0.99 each!
Another great video.
Hi! Great video 😊 I put my dog on a raw diet buttttt I slightly simmer the meats and serve the water with it cuz it’s a little more familiar. I give raw bones and bone meal as bones.
Sounds like a good feeding plan!
@@PawsofPrey ty
I got a pocket bully puppy I just saw all the vitamins/muscle gainer supplement and raw food cost and it hurt me to think bout it. Just bought $120 of vitamin for hip joints,muscle gainer, health and growing improvements from bully max a certified company specializing in dogs. It's for 4 months worth of vitamins it's not that bad but it's too high. Rn I got some puppy stuff but once he's a little older I will only need to buy 80 dollar worth of 4 months and raw+kibble if I want to save money to mix it. Need toys, dog collar leash, shampoo, bedding. Am 16 with a pocket bully puppy I usually buy everything myself just cuz that's who I am I never had nobody to really buy me good amount of clothes and other things.
A few ounces of sardines would easily meet your dog's vitamin D requirements. As well as some vitamin E.
You cannot get these prices in Canada :(
I'm sorry!
Hey, can this diet make my Husky more and more Muscular and tall? I want to make my Huskey more Taller and Muscular than normal Husky!
Can you please do another video on premade! Possibly about the different brands, what to do if they do not want to eat it, what to look for in pre made, what to add to pre made, and/or what to avoid in pre made! :)
Great suggestions!! I plan on doing a premade video soon :)
@@PawsofPrey yay! thank you!! looking forward to it :). I think you're also in the USA! If you could please talk about some Canadian ones too that would be awesome! You are such an informative channel i love your videos
Look at price per LB for fresh meats. Then look at price per LB for Hills Science Diet, Blue Buffalo, Orijen. Even the low tier dog food, is getting up there in price! Kibbles and Bits, and Ol Roy, that used to be $10-15 for a 45 LB bag, is now $25-30 for a 45 LB bag. Considering the quality of these foods, $25 for a 45 LB bag is absurd.
I have 4 dogs , 2 boxers and 2 frenchies . Since I had to retire due to my husband's health isdues I can no longer afford to feed raw . I loved the raw diet and wish I could afford it . I also have 4 rescue cats .
I'm sorry! I'm sure you do the best you can
How do you really know which meat from the store department to get that doesn't have a fillers, preservatives, filled with hormones etc
Thanks for the video. Still learning about raw feeding and your videos are a huge help. (FYI: Food Lion is NOTHING like Wegmans - signed "Wegmans Fanboy") 👽🖖"Na-nu"
LOL.....oops. I've never actually been there, just looked online at what stores are "comparable" but I guess it was wrong O__O Wegmans looks comparable to like...whole foods looking at it lol
Walmart sells 15 pounds ground beef for 22 bucks. I get my Oregon meat from Spanish Market. They tend to have all cuts of meats
Wal-Mart also has 10lb bags of chicken leg quarters for about 6 dollars.
I stay away from chicken. Two of my dogs allergic so I just stay away all together. They definitely have great deals on fresh and frozen chicken
I want to do a dry and raw diet mix for my GSD but thing i am most scared of is the risk of diseases from eating raw meat. Info online constantly contradict each other with both sides having peer reviewed statements and it just confuses me.
Make sure you freeze any wild caught prey for up to three or four weeks.
Time is money and the time and gas it took to go to five stores to collect the cheapest meals would never be worth it to me. I shop once, buy bulk, and freeze it at home.
Mexican stores be on point
Excellent video. I think your cost calculation didn't include the cost in time and effort. Most people are so busy.
that took her about 3 minutes to put together.
@@bunniesbunniesbunnie didn't take 3 min to go to one store. Let alone 5.
@@MsrKSDisque Well yes but you're also shopping for yourself at the same time, so that doesn't count.
Very true, you do have to put in a decent amount of work to feed raw!
Hi! Do you feed your dogs once a day?
Love your videos, thank you so much for them!!
Sometimes once, sometimes I split the food into 2 meals!
When feeding raw they have to be either a muscle or an organ. These are easier for them to digest.
My dog throws up if i feed her cheap dog food. I have to get "sensative stomach formula" that's almost $2 a pound so I've been feeding her a lot of people food, it's not much more expensive
What are your thoughts on zesty paws omega chews and supplements?
You should have been compared it with Royal canin The Royal canin will be more than 2x the raw diet
Dogs eat a lot of fur in the wild. Is there any micronutrient in it that's missing on the insides?
Can you provide the formulas (aka the math), because when you said daily intake. What does that mean for us watching trying to get information on the topic of raw eating?
Is pork ok for dogs? is it better than other meats?
Can you do a video on food handling to avoid parasites and food poisoning for our dogs? I want to start off giving my dog some mackerel but idk if I’m supposed to freeze it right after I buy it from the store. And for other foods
Would love to know your honest thoughts on Darwins prepared raw meals. I've a 60lb Berger Picard who has been on this for 4 yrs now. He just turned 8. I pay a small mortgage for him to eat. Still trying to learn everything about a balanced raw meal. 11th video of yours tonight, thank you very much. Kai thanks you as well.
Had no idea Target in the US sells food. That’s so weird.
I love this! Could you do one for cats?
It's basically the same! I could definitely get this cost down since my cat eats about half this much lol
I was feeling optimistic but then you said 9lb haul for $22~ but for me with 2 80+ lb dogs that’s gone in 2 days max, each needing at least 2lb of food a day. At that rate I’m spending 20$ every 2 days that’s like 300$ a month. Am I missing something or is there a way to do this cheaper ???? Again am I missing something ???
Hey, i have a question
So if i feed my cat salmon or machrel twice a week as a source of omega 3 i have to also put with it vitamin e oil ...... So i give my cat vitamin e oil twice a week with oily fish
Will that be ok ?
This is just what iv been looking for. I also would like to know how much of each to portion it 80/10/10 like how do i know how much 80% of the muscle meat etc..
Buy a scale. If your dog needs 1.0 lb of food per day then their meal will have 12.8 oz of muscle meat. It doesn't have to be exactly. Do you eat exactly a certain amount of muscle meat per day? Animals in nature don't carry arounds scales and they also don't have calculators.
I really want to do this. I’m told it’s okay to do raw if u have good sourced meat because of bacteria/parasites..but I would need to buy similar to what u have here. Is there anything u have to do first to the meat
Can I use Raw quail eggs every day in this way I am hitting many of the nutrients lacking as well as iodine in the yolk?
With rising dog food costs, this really isn't any more expensive anymore. Do be careful feeding dogs canned meat, or fish though. It is loaded with extra sodium.
The sardines have salt that is ok?
No
Quality is more important, buy organs from grass-fed amish cows.
What would you suggest for a dog that has a poultry allergy?
How do you know how much Vitamin E and kelp to give? And do you give them every day?
I'M NEW! HELP! I'm trying to understand where you came up with needing to feed your pet every part of their "prey." Dogs and cat hunt in packs and never eat the whole prey at any given meal. Wouldn't mimicking their natural diet be more beneficial? Couldn't I just feed them parts of a body throughout the week?
Dogs also don't carry scales and/or calculators. None of this has to be exact. People are going overboard with the measurements. I like your thinking. I've never seen an animal in the wild take measurements when eating it's prey.
For my dog (large) his good kibble and raw is the same 👀
I’m getting oysters and mussels this weekend for my puppy. Can you please tell me how much of each do I add to her bowl?
My favorite vlogger, watched all of your videos and learned a lot. My dog has been eating raw meat for four months, but has been suffering from acid reflux recently. It happens in the middle of the night and early in the morning. A few blood spots appear in the yellow fluid from the recent vomiting. I counted my meals by calories and fed them twice a day. After vomiting I switched to feeding him four times a day and gave him a 10mg Pepcid tablet before going to bed. I am not sure whether to continue to feed raw food, I am worried about the bones will bring the burden of digestion. I hope you can help me with this problem.
And I also gave him slippery elm before meals.
My dog has had the same problem and I'm worried he may no longer tolerate raw meat or…maybe, hopefully just one of the proteins. I started lightly cooking his meat to see if that helps and started giving one kind of protein at a time for now so I can see if he has a certain protein sensitivity. I'm worried he can't handle raw anymore for some reason but don't want to cook his food and kill nutrients, ugh, I guess it's a wait and see.
Have you noticed a trend at all with this as far as what's in the meal? Sometimes this can be caused by too much fat!
@@PawsofPrey Thanks for your reply! After switching to raw food, he vomited more yellow water than before, but acid reflux was more pronounced recently. I haven't changed much in terms of my diet. The fat content is always less than 10%. But I chose commercial raw food that was beaten up and stirred, so I don't know if that would have affected it.
You might get some high-quality dog probiotics and give it to them as advised on the bottle until they are gone. This really helps my dog with her digestion.
Do you have any tips on getting a one-year-old dog and a five-month-old puppy to even want to eat the oysters the clams or the organs both of mine turn their nose up at it and I’m not exactly sure how to get them to eat them he even tried boiling them a little bit and that didn’t work either
Can you do a video or have a video with all the parts of meat, seafood that are good or ok for your dog?
I have a few videos on these subjects actually :)
Are there no online raw feeding/ BARF shops? I know there are in Europe...
Goood morning!!! Have a great Friday 💕🥰😍 here in brazil is getting really expensive to buy meats, and any other thing or food 😓 I hate Bolsonaro 😭
Fora Bozo! Ainda bem que cachorros comem carne crua, porque o gás tá um absurdo também.
Verdade! Tudo caro, tá ficando foda mesmo, sério, nunca imaginei essa situação, o fígado de boi pagava 7 reais no kg ano passado, agora tá 19!!! BIZARRO
Prices have actually gone up here too! But luckily I can still find a few deals.
Nice cash cow account. Post more though so you can hit the explore feed more. Your channel will grow faster ! And your voice over artist is great too
Thank you! :p
Taurine ?
I’m told it’s necessary . What food has taurine
Hehe, Matsu is a cardigan corgi pembroke corgi mix
I understand this was bare-minimum pricing, but do you not normally specifically try to buy organic/grass-fed/wild foods? Or is the thinking that even factory-raised meats are better than other options? I want to do an organic raw diet for my puppy, but just finding all of these meats is overwhelming as it is! Maybe split the difference and buy organic when possible?
Can I raw feed my kitten? What would you advice me when feeding a kitten raw diet?
I do have a kitten video! ua-cam.com/video/QYfFsIeqNnU/v-deo.html
@@PawsofPrey I started feeding my kitten raw and I never have seen her having so much energy, she plays like ten times more and runs for hours playing with her toys, and she seems so happy to eat. Thank you so much!
Can you do this for you cat
Are chicken hearts a second S organ ?
No, they are a muscular organ that should be counted in the muscle meat
Could u make a raw feeding Playlist for ferrets n kits I'm getting one I'm still a bit confused n overlord and don't wanna mess it up plz
I will be doing more ferret videos soon, but look up Pazu and Friends, she has a plethora of ferret nutrition and care videos
Genuinely curious because I don’t own a dog, but I’ve noticed you don’t really feed your dog vegetables. Do the organs hold the same nutrients? Love your videos by the way! Very informative ❤️
In her other videos she adds a frozen vegetable puree! Organs do contain essential vitamins but there are some nutritional gaps.
Organ meats are among the most nutritionally dense foods on the planet (along with eggs, clams, and some fish). Whether those nutrients are perfectly balanced for dogs or have gaps in some nutrients is beyond my understanding, but it's well known that a cut of liver is more nutritionally dense and diverse than most vegetables.
@@CarlosRodriguez-dh7mm Absolutely! i never meant for vegetables to replace organ by any means. What I meant was Veggies are also important in providing vitamins that a typical PMR diet might lack.
I do feed a veggie puree!
@@PawsofPrey How often? :)
I dont think you calculated this right. Ive been feeding Raw for a year now and it is very expensive (!especially for big dogs!). Did you buy enough meat to balance out all of the chicken backs that you bought? The weight of the bone is probably what makes the average cost so low.
Yes, this was his daily intake of bone. These chicken backs have a decent amount of muscle meat and fat on it which aided in the overall weight of the meal. They were also one of the cheapest items I bought. This was intended to be exceptionally cheap because I was seeking the cheapest things I could find.
@@PawsofPrey ok. But what im saying is that you will run out of meat before you feed all of the chicken backs. Then youll have to buy more meat and include that in the average cost.
@@ardaunal1875 oh yes, that's usually how it goes. Muscle meat is the first to go and organ meat is the last. This was simply just to show a cheap meal, but you're right about overall if I was prepping. In that case I would need to just buy more packages if the muscle meat I bought earlier in the video.
If I'm figuring the ratios right, I have a 5 month old yorkie who weighs 7# & very active, he should have 7.83 oz per day ? It's almost what your 25# adult eats, is my figuring right ?
I go over how to calculate for puppies here! ua-cam.com/video/Zb5iwD3H-eg/v-deo.html
All canned food is cooked? Not raw
Another great video. Thank you a real life saver.
Um, chicken meat is muscle meat, ground turkey has some muscle meat, and pork chops are muscle meat.
And those canned fish are full of so much salt. I only feed fresh fish products for my dogs.
Yes, I say they're muscle meat. When it comes to the fish I recommend them being raw, not canned, but canned fish in water are fine to rotate with if it's all they can find.
Do you feed matsu PMR or NRDC ?
I feed Matsu BARF+ I guess is what people would call it. I balance it to NRC guidelines with fresh foods.
Commenting from 2023 where these prices can’t be found now
Wegmans is so expensive