I generally feed a kind of Prey Model Raw with a calcium supplement rather than bone-in meals. I balance the cats' meals with organ daily rather than over the course of a week as most PMR feeders do.
The meal fed at dinner time is the meal with organ. So they have the meat portion they get at the other meals reduced to account for the organ. For instance, Billy eats 1.2 ounces of food per meal. I feed three meals a day, so he gets a total of 3.6 ounces of food a day. At the organ meal, he gets 0.8 ounces of meat, 0.2 (I round) ounces of liver, and 0.2 ounces of kidney. Roughly. I err to too much rather than too little.
I use chicken liver and beef kidney as the organs (for the most part). I follow the 80% meat, 10% bone, 5% liver, 5% other secreting organ guidelines - without the bone. Rather than split the difference, I just bump the meat portion to 90%.
I also provide one egg yolk per cat weekly, and I split one 4+ ounce tin of sardines (water, no salt) between them weekly.
I have three cats that eat what they're supposed to: Billy, Chumley, and Ming Loy.
Flowerbelle will NOT eat kidney, no matter how I offer it to her or with whatever on top of it. But she loves fresh liver. So her 5% "other secreting organ" is liver. :lol3:
Tuxedo will no longer eat liver, no matter how I offer it to him. (This is because he doesn't like it and has trouble keeping it down. He used to eat it with freeze dried chicken powdered on top of it, but as he's not kept it down, I guess he's smart enough to have decided not to eat it any more. :dk: ). He likes and can keep down freeze dried liver, so he gets a 5% fresh equivalent of freeze dried liver. He also LOVES fresh kidney, so I give him extra beyond his 5%.
Sheldon cannot keep down any organs, but hates kidney anyway. He gets his organs as freeze dried (chicken) liver (he can't keep down freeze dried beef liver) in an amount that is equivalent to 10% fresh liver.
Lazlo doesn't eat any organs. So I use a supplement that makes just meat complete. He eats Call of the Wild as that supplement.
Spooky won't eat any organs. She hates CoTW. We just tried TCfeline, and she wouldn't even go near her dish - despite HEAPS of the fallback topper, FortiFlora. :lol3: So Spooky gets a cod liver oil supplement daily, to ensure she gets her vitamin A.
All of them get a homemade supplement added to their morning meal: http://www.thecatsite.com/t/264199/homemade-supplement-for-raw
So with that long preamble, here's the organ meal process.
Just the meat, portioned. As you can see, they all eat different sizes. Billy gets his meat in one lump. Shel usually gets his in 2 or 3 strips, but this pork was falling apart. :lol3: (I normally use chicken thigh or gizzard for the organ meal, but forgot to thaw any. :anon: ). Spooky won't eat it unless it is basically minced. Chumley usually gets his meat in two pieces, but he just recently had a canine removed, so I'm cutting up his meat into more bite-sized pieces for now.
I no longer weigh out the organ individually. I bag up and freeze the amount needed for the cats that eat it, and just eyeball it when cutting it into the dishes. Once a month or so I weigh it as I put the meals out, just to get myself back on track with correct portions.
Meal with kidney added to those who eat it:
Meal with kidney and now liver added to those who eat it:
Because no one is in love with salmon oil, I measured out how many drops I get out of one capsule. I use 1,000mg capsules. I divided the number of drops they need to get 500mg daily by three, and put that many drops on their meal. Flowerbelle doesn't get salmon oil; I just pill her with krill oil in the morning. But here's the meal with salmon oil and eggshell powder (and CoTW on Lazlo's)
...we're not quite done yet. Tuxedo and Shel get freeze dried liver rather than fresh liver:
With the cutting and measuring, it takes about 10 minutes to prep the meals for the 8 cats.
...and on that note, I'm a little late for their late night meal. :lol3: They're getting the chicken thigh they normally would have had earlier.
The meal fed at dinner time is the meal with organ. So they have the meat portion they get at the other meals reduced to account for the organ. For instance, Billy eats 1.2 ounces of food per meal. I feed three meals a day, so he gets a total of 3.6 ounces of food a day. At the organ meal, he gets 0.8 ounces of meat, 0.2 (I round) ounces of liver, and 0.2 ounces of kidney. Roughly. I err to too much rather than too little.
I use chicken liver and beef kidney as the organs (for the most part). I follow the 80% meat, 10% bone, 5% liver, 5% other secreting organ guidelines - without the bone. Rather than split the difference, I just bump the meat portion to 90%.
I also provide one egg yolk per cat weekly, and I split one 4+ ounce tin of sardines (water, no salt) between them weekly.
I have three cats that eat what they're supposed to: Billy, Chumley, and Ming Loy.
Flowerbelle will NOT eat kidney, no matter how I offer it to her or with whatever on top of it. But she loves fresh liver. So her 5% "other secreting organ" is liver. :lol3:
Tuxedo will no longer eat liver, no matter how I offer it to him. (This is because he doesn't like it and has trouble keeping it down. He used to eat it with freeze dried chicken powdered on top of it, but as he's not kept it down, I guess he's smart enough to have decided not to eat it any more. :dk: ). He likes and can keep down freeze dried liver, so he gets a 5% fresh equivalent of freeze dried liver. He also LOVES fresh kidney, so I give him extra beyond his 5%.
Sheldon cannot keep down any organs, but hates kidney anyway. He gets his organs as freeze dried (chicken) liver (he can't keep down freeze dried beef liver) in an amount that is equivalent to 10% fresh liver.
Lazlo doesn't eat any organs. So I use a supplement that makes just meat complete. He eats Call of the Wild as that supplement.
Spooky won't eat any organs. She hates CoTW. We just tried TCfeline, and she wouldn't even go near her dish - despite HEAPS of the fallback topper, FortiFlora. :lol3: So Spooky gets a cod liver oil supplement daily, to ensure she gets her vitamin A.
All of them get a homemade supplement added to their morning meal: http://www.thecatsite.com/t/264199/homemade-supplement-for-raw
So with that long preamble, here's the organ meal process.
Just the meat, portioned. As you can see, they all eat different sizes. Billy gets his meat in one lump. Shel usually gets his in 2 or 3 strips, but this pork was falling apart. :lol3: (I normally use chicken thigh or gizzard for the organ meal, but forgot to thaw any. :anon: ). Spooky won't eat it unless it is basically minced. Chumley usually gets his meat in two pieces, but he just recently had a canine removed, so I'm cutting up his meat into more bite-sized pieces for now.
I no longer weigh out the organ individually. I bag up and freeze the amount needed for the cats that eat it, and just eyeball it when cutting it into the dishes. Once a month or so I weigh it as I put the meals out, just to get myself back on track with correct portions.
Meal with kidney added to those who eat it:
Meal with kidney and now liver added to those who eat it:
Because no one is in love with salmon oil, I measured out how many drops I get out of one capsule. I use 1,000mg capsules. I divided the number of drops they need to get 500mg daily by three, and put that many drops on their meal. Flowerbelle doesn't get salmon oil; I just pill her with krill oil in the morning. But here's the meal with salmon oil and eggshell powder (and CoTW on Lazlo's)
...we're not quite done yet. Tuxedo and Shel get freeze dried liver rather than fresh liver:
With the cutting and measuring, it takes about 10 minutes to prep the meals for the 8 cats.
...and on that note, I'm a little late for their late night meal. :lol3: They're getting the chicken thigh they normally would have had earlier.
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Just slice off a small bit of whatever you're making for yourself, toss it over your shoulder as if it slipped out of your fingers accidentally, and see if he gobbles it up. :lol3: 
