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Hi all. Lately I started making spreadsheets of my recipes to try and make sure they meet NRC recommendations. This is ongoing project, but I did discover they were definitely deficient in some nutrients and have been making up the gaps with supplements or whole foods when possible. I introduced...

Hi all. I want to make a batch of mostly pork based food without any egg products, which means no eggshell calcium. Ive purchased a brand of limestone based calcium carbonate - hopefully this product is ok? Alnutrin apparently uses limestone based calcium for their non eggshell product, and this...

Hi, I have a question about eggs and iodine. About a month ago one of my cats started having severe issues with something in his food. He had a major puking attack and got very sick, then recovered as I started an elimination diet of sorts. Long story short, one month and another attack later, I...

Hello, I live in the high desert, Ca and have recently been trying harder than ever to see if it's at all possible to source heart and organ meat around here. So far all I've found is one carniceria that sells cow brains and heart. Apparently cow heart doesn't have as much taurine as chicken...

Hi. I have a cat who I'm having an increasingly hard time keeping weight on. I should mention that my 3 cats live in a building separate from the house so that I cannot witness everything that goes on in there. But I have seen more frequent vomiting that correlates with the weight problem - it...

Hi all. I have an STX 4000 turboforce II which can only grind "soft" bones. In the question and answer section of the Amazon page for this product a representative of the product answered an inquiry about duck bone, saying he "thinks" duck is a hard bone, but I can't find any confirmation of...

Hello. I've only been feeding raw a couple months. I use Alnutrin and only just realized there is no Omega-3 added (for oxidation reasons) so I figured I should supplement.... I quickly came across info about the necessity to supplement enough Vitamin E if you are supplementing Omega-3 (2 IU per...

Hi all. I just registered with this website to write this, so I don't even know if I'm posting this in the right place.... but I just wanted to somehow share this important info with the raw feeding community. I'm new to making raw food, and brand new to grinding bone; in fact my grinder just...