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How do you supplement it? Do you use eggs, taurine, vitamins? Do you follow a specific recipe, or just meat?It's ground not frankenprey.
The beef is beef chuck roast, kidney, heart, liver, thymus.
The turkey is turkey thighs, chicken thighs, turkey heart, liver, gizzards.
The pork is pork, shoulder roast, heart, liver, kidney, spleen.
The chicken is thighs, hearts, liver. All chicken.
The lamb is leg of lamb, and beef heart, liver and thymus.
The chicken organs are from the grocery store. The other organs and the turkey are from a local store that specializes in supplies for raw feeders. The rest is from Costco.
I usually use ground bone but have been experimenting with MCHA (freeze dried bone). It maintains the full nutrient profile of whole bone but I don't have to worry about sharp pieces.
For supplements I use vit E (mostly as a preservative), and B complex. I sprinkle extra taurine over their meals 3 or 4 times a week. I also do add eggs to the ground mix and the 4 of them split 2 tins of sardines a week.How do you supplement it? Do you use eggs, taurine, vitamins? Do you follow a specific recipe, or just meat?
What grinder do you have?
Sorry for all the questions
and..... what is the percentage you use? for meat/bone/organs?
Well, depends on your definition of "balanced".Is it completely balanced? Do you supplement in the meat or with other foods throughout the week?
Well, the computer program helps a lot. I know my recipes can't be terribly lacking in anything important!I definitely do not have the confidence to make home made ground and supplement myself.
$5.07 / lb including shipping ain't bad at all! My problem with ordering raw online has always been that in the summer I would have to use overnight shipping if the food is to get to Houston from the east coast still frozen. That and I really have a pretty good selection of locally available stuff so it really doesn't make sense for me to bother with online ordering.OK, my cost isn't quite double yours... but I just placed my first order from Hare Today. I ordered pork, rabbit, turkey, and supplement. I just paid $5.07 per pound for supplemented food, shipped. ...and that was NOT a bulk order (just 20 pounds of meat, to give it a try).
It's going to cost me about $300 a month to feed the cats (8 of them) raw, vs about $400 for the canned I was feeding them.
She is offline so I am going to answer that - that is FeDex 2days shipping$5.07 / lb including shipping ain't bad at all! My problem with ordering raw online has always been that in the summer I would have to use overnight shipping if the food is to get to Houston from the east coast still frozen. That and I really have a pretty good selection of locally available stuff so it really doesn't make sense for me to bother with online ordering.
Really, $5.07 isn't bad at all especially since it is less than you are paying now.
Is that standard ground shipping?
Laurie is in NJ, right? Hare-Today is in PA so the shipping would be pretty cheap for her.She is offline so I am going to answer that - that is FeDex 2days shipping
Oh, I have ordered from them when it was pretty warm here in Dallas..... not a problem.... The outer layer was slightly thawed, but nothing worrisome at all........ pretty frozen, pretty good....
LOL - last week was 85F here..... so... yeah pretty warm LOL Sure, not like summer, but not winter either....Laurie is in NJ, right? Hare-Today is in PA so the shipping would be pretty cheap for her.
You haven't ordered from them in the summer when it is hot (not warm) both in Dallas and all along the travel route. Let me know how it goes in July-Sept.
Huh? I just looked and Fed Ex 2nd to Houston for what she ordered would be $114.65. That's on an $85.79 order.LOL - last week was 85F here..... so... yeah pretty warm LOL Sure, not like summer, but not winter either....
My shipping was also 2 days and cheap too..... anyways - the deal is, they don't have the overcharges the other places do..... they just charge the shipping for it. Mine was pretty much the same as Laurie.... I think $20 or something like that if memory doesn't fail me. But yeah.... I plan to order from them the same way..... Since they are an online shipping company.... I would imagine they do alright during those months too.....
Maybe they have a different pricing structure with Fed Ex? It was actually cheaper to choose the Fed Ex 2-day than the UPS 2-day! UPS 2-day was $23-something, and Fed Ex 2-day was $22-something. :dk: The total shipping weight was 31 pounds for 20 pounds of meat and the supplement (I don't know how much that weighs). They do send it in a styrofoam cooler with dry ice, but that's included in the shipping price. As Carolina said, they don't charge extra for that. Seemed VERY reasonable to me. :nod:Maybe you used Fed Ex 3 day home delivery? That would have been $26 to Houston for Lauries order.
You have to remember you are a lot closer to both Wisconsin and PA than Houston is! The only $20-something shipping Hare-Today had for your order to Houston was for 3 day, not 2 day.Maybe they have a different pricing structure with Fed Ex? It was actually cheaper to choose the Fed Ex 2-day than the UPS 2-day! UPS 2-day was $23-something, and Fed Ex 2-day was $22-something.The total shipping weight was 31 pounds for 20 pounds of meat and the supplement (I don't know how much that weighs). They do send it in a styrofoam cooler with dry ice, but that's included in the shipping price. As Carolina said, they don't charge extra for that. Seemed VERY reasonable to me.
Fortunately, I don't think it's going to be an issue in the summer. We have meat shipped to us fairly frequently, and when shipped in styrofoam with dry ice, it always arrives still frozen, no matter the time of year (and we often order stuff from Wisconsin). The only time it didn't was during the power outage one summer, when everything got delayed by three days.Those were some stinky bratwurst.