sample raw 'menus' please?

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Our 13 year old (winalot and mixer fed with dentasticks and jumbonesas treats...knew no better back then...feel ashamed now educated...) Golden Retriever died in January. We have a new pup coming soon who is raw fed. The breeder (although fabulous in every other way) seems to want us to find our own feet-pointing us towards books (which we've bought and read) she seems reluctant to guide us...All we want is a sample puppy menu / teenage / adult menu while we find our feet!
We have some chicken wings, liver (for once a week / fortnight), tinned sardines, sea bass heads and tails, minced chicken with bones in from butcher and chewing bones (none of which look suitable!!! Too boney by half!!! Some look ike ribs, some like half a pelvis but as they were free I didn't want to look like an ungrateful mare!!
Help!!!!!!

This is what I feed my dog, he loves it and it's sooooo easy. We put a chest freezer in the shed and fill it up. www.naturalinstinct.com/

p.s. it's all raw

you can feed natural instinct but i'm not a huge fan of always giving minced food. one of the things i like about raw feeding is giving the dog a bit of a chew so that she doesn't eat her food in 2.5 seconds keeping her occupied and me feeling that she's had a proper amount of food and hence not over feeding her.

Six month old field bred lab so not a huge one but then not as slight as some of those i've seen.

b/fast lamb bone or chickens legs or green tripe (sheep or beef).
tea beef cheek, heart (considered muscle meat), kidney, small bits of liver, fish heads, different bits of chicken, tongue. again tripe. sardines in tomato sauce, the odd egg. in season, pheasant and rabbit if i can get other people to do the skinning etc.

things I don't feed

vegetables, fruit (personally, not sure that this is all that useful if you keep the tripe amount up. i can get lots of paunches and all that chopping etc is too much like hard work. If I've fed things like natural instinct the eg just comes out the other end in exactly the same form. i'm assured that the goodness has stayed in the dog but you don't get it carrot peppered poo with tripe.
lamb necks lamb knuckle bones very meaty lamb bones (makes dog sick but she does love them)
weight bearing big animal bones eg cow leg bones. am told there's a potential of it cracking her teeth
cooked bones

other things i feed

salmon oil - 2 x tsps per day to keep her coat shiny put on her food
liver cake treats

i feed her around 800g of food a day but i don't measure it too carefully.

hope this helps. honestly don't worry - it just sounds so much more complicated than it actually is. A chest freezer would be a good purchase if you don't have one.

rawfeddogs.org/rawguide.html

this is the best help page i've read. what's good about it is that it gives you some sample menus.

I can understand the breeder wanting you to read up on raw feeding rather than give out prescribed "menus".
A dog's feeding needs will change. There's loads of information on the web, if you understand the basic principles you can be flexible and work out what suits you and your dog rather than follow rigid guidelines. As you haven't got the pup yet there's still time to do the research.

The main thing is not to stress about it. I have a 9yr old that is largely raw fed and we started her at 8 weeks on raw. Get some of the packs of frozen minced raw from a good pet shop and see what the pup likes.

Chicken wings are brilliant because the bones are soft and easy to digest. My dogs love ribs but I probably wouldn't have given them until they were a bit older. Mine now have a mix of raw mince, wings, ribs, marrow bones, raw eggs, table scraps and various 'complete' foods like nature diet. I have a large bag of emergency dried food which they get as training treats and when I forget to check supples of the good stuff

I take the view that so long as the basic diet is good a bit of commercial dried food won't do any harm. One thing you might notice is that the coat stays pretty silky, even after neutering, a real contrast between the coats like old rugs of my first few dogs compared with the last 3 who have been raw fed

Thank you so much, lots of great advice.