Safari Dog Ranch

Recipes – Fresh Food Diets for Dogs

   

Written by:

Bryce

These are meals we rotate at the Safari Dogs Ranch. The key to feeding raw/cooked is variety each week. An adult dog doesn’t need a “Balanced meal” every day. Dogs thrive with a variety of foods to meet their nutritional needs over the course of a week. To learn more about feeding a fresh food diet to your dog, check out more of our articles here in our Safari Dogs Ranch Education page

Texas Tripe pre-made raw food. The “Prey Model” diet is only meat, organs and soft bones or ground bones. This is a complete diet if a dog gets fatty fish or fish oil 3 days a week and eggs 3+ days a week. Texas Tripe is a raw pre-made dog food supplier with a prey model diet blend. Prey Model diet is suggested diet for any dog with allergies or gut issues. Texas Tripe makes great raw blends that are cost effective.
Raw Ground Beef – Raw Chicken Feet – Boiled Egg with the shell – Sardines – Organ meat. These 5 foods cover all your dog’s nutritional needs. A dog does not need a balanced diet every day. Fish, egg, organs can each be added just 3 days a week to keep a dog healthy. This is a Prey Model diet. Whole bodies of small animals can also be used for prey model.
This is a complete prey model diet. I highly suggest also adding NuVet vitamins 3-5 days a week. This suggested diet is a good “base”. It should not be the only food the dog ever eats. See the below recipes for more details. A dog needs 4+ protein sources per week and adding in or rotating foods is ideal.
  • Dr Harvey’s Raw Vibrance “base” (just add meat & oil). This is the green mix. It covers everything your dog needs after the meat & fish oil. A dog needs either veggies – or- bones / bone meal for fiber & nutrition
  • Raw ground Beef
  • Sardines. 1 Oz per 20/lbs body weight. Low sodium is a must!
  • Beef Liver. 10-20% of the meat can be any organ meat. 5-10% is the minimum organ meat a dog needs.
  • Octopus – fresh cooked from Costco
Raw chicken feet, cottage cheese, raw farm raised egg, beef liver, ground beef. Chicken feet are a great source of bone & cartilage. They are easy for small dogs to chew up. Chicken feet are full of: cartilage, glucosamine, chondroitin, collagen, calcium, protein and bone.
Ground Beef: cooked or raw
Calf liver: cooked or raw
Egg: cooked or raw
Deer Bone Meal
Nordic Naturals fish oil/ DHA & EPA Omega-3s
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Lamb meaty bone. Raw/not cooked
Ground lean beef. Raw or cooked
Eggs. Raw or cooked
Chicken Gizzards & Liver. Raw or cooked
Sardines. Canned in water
Spinach/dark leafy greens. Fresh & purée
Papaya Enzyme pills
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Lamb meaty bone. Raw!! Never feed cooked bones. Cooked bones splinter and can harm your dog.
Chicken breast. Raw or cooked
Eggs. Cooked or raw
Chicken Gizzards. Raw or cooked
Sardines. Canned in water
Papaya Enzyme pills
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Kelp Seaweed Flakes
Chicken breast: cooked or raw
Mussels: canned
Pork Bone Meal
Bone broth: lamb/chicken/beef are all good Make a large broth batch & freeze in small batches. Feed broth many days a week.
Veggies & Fruit: purée
Iodine (give only 3 days/week max)
Coconut Yogurt Probiotic
Probiotic by Klaire Labs

Types of Meat we Feed the Dogs

Raw Feeding Miami is an online store for a wide variety of raw food. They offer exotic meats, whole prey, prey model blends.
Beef is the most nutrient dense meat. We feed our dogs a majority beef meat diet. We also rotate in chicken, turkey, pork, rabbit, duck, lamb, salmon, catfish and occasional exotic meats.
Chicken Wings. Fed RAW. Cooked bones splinter! Do not cook bones that you feed your dog. Raw chicken bones are chewy and easy to crunch without any bone shards. Small dogs can easily chew up small chicken wings and small legs. Large dogs have no problem chewing up full size wings or big leg-thigh quarters. We suggest using a bone grinder (pictured below) if you do not want to feed whole bones. Raw chicken can be fed a few meals a week for an economical and healthy diet. Note: some dogs need a lower fat diet. We take off the skin when feeding those dogs. We suggest you also give these two NuVet supplements most days of the week. We usually take a day off from supplements every 3-4 days.
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Ground Turkey. Cooked or Raw. You can use turkey in place of chicken or beef in the above recipes. Or give as a stand alone meal. We highly suggest you feed 5-10% organ meat and add Bone Meal. WARNING Turkey bones splinter. Do not feed whole Turkey bones!
Lean meat Pork. Cooked or Raw. You can use Pork in place of chicken or beef in the above recipes. Or give as a stand alone meal with organ meat and add Bone Meal
Meat /Bone Grinder: STX Megaforce 3000 $170 -grinds chicken bones-

Author: Alicia of Safari Dogs has fed raw/cooked food to her dogs her whole life. She comes from generations of fresh food feeders.

To learn more about feeding a fresh food diet to your dog, check out more of our articles here in our Safari Dogs Ranch Education page

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