Home made dog food

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Does anyone do this? I mean actual home made, in your kitchen... not "home made" from butternut box etc

What is the general rule I need to follow in terms of macronutrients ratio of protein/fats/carbs ?

I eat very clean, unprocessed food and I'd like to offer my puppy dog the same courtesy. However "home made" wet food from companies is insanely expensive!!

Does anyone make their own dog food? Any tips?

How much does your dog weigh, and what breed are they? For an adult dog, they should be having 2-3% of their body weight in food per day. For young puppies, they’ll need 5-10% of their body weight in food to sustain their growth, dropping to around 5% of their body weight when they reach about 6 months.

If you’re wanting to raw feed, the ratio should be 80:10:10 of meat:bone:offal. You can add some veggies for texture and variety if your dog likes them, but they’re not essential. You can buy separate packages of meat, bone and offal from a butcher or raw dog food supplier, but this may work out more expensive than if you used a premade complete food, plus it is messy and time consuming.

My dog used to be on Nutriment Raw (he ate 320g a day, the food comes as a 1.4kg frozen block at around £5.50 per block, so his food costs were around £1.30/day, not hugely expensive!), we have now switched him to a different food as he had some issues around resource guarding which proved impossible to fix while he was on that food as he just enjoyed it too much, otherwise he would still be on it now.

Making space

Are you talking homemade as in cooked, or homemade as in raw?

Our puppy was on Cotswold Raw Organic when she came home which was, as you say, eye wateringly expensive! I kept her on it for a month, then gradually weaned her over the following month onto Eden dry food (it's an 80/20 food and also £££, but less so than the raw organic stuff) which she stayed on for the next year.

She's now 2 and on Markus Muhle dry food which is decent (and cheap!), but about 1/3 of her diet is other stuff I add in that's as unprocessed as possible. Things like eggs, plain yoghurt, the odd tin of oily fish, if I see some super cheap meat in the yellow sticker fridge she will get that once or twice a week. Plus whole carrots or broccoli stalks as crunchy snacks! And every day she gets some manky piece of whole/fairly unprocessed animal to chew - hairy ears (the hair apparently helps keeps them worm free?), dried tails, dried strips of beef tendon etc.

That's how I've compromised on the same thing, if it's any help to you.