What do you feed?

[CorgiPaws]

Beef heart is the cornerstone of our feeding, and we feed it a lot. The price seems to fluctuate a lot, from $1.45-$1.99 through the last several months (last time was $1.73/lb) but I've found it to be a total godsend in keeping weight on Annie's skinny little butt.
Other than that, sometimes we order beef head meat, which is a little cheaper than the heart by about $.10-$.15/lb but is also fattier.
We feed whole pork legs, which are about 25lbs each, and let each dog gnaw off a few pounds on a gorge day. That's the only pork we buy. It's $1.33/lb and has stayed that price for a while.

We also feed a lot of whole mackerel. Each dog gets a couple every day. They love it.

Other red meat we feed regularly: lamb necks, lamb scrap, lamb kidney, lamb heart, and game meat when we get it free.

We feed 600-650lbs/ month and I order 200lbs of it beef heart every time.

[kathylcsw]

I am having a terrible time finding any heart other than chicken. I finally found beef heart at $1.99/lb and the drive is about 2 hours round trip! From my CL scores I have a fair amount of ground beef so for now Lola gets frozen chunks of that. As for pork another CL score netted me about 5 lbs of pork loin so that has been their pork with pork neck and the odd marked down pork steak thrown in.

For now deer is my red meat staple. My brother saved the scraps from 2 deer that he cut up and I got 10-15 lbs from a guy on CL a couple of weeks ago. Since my dogs only eat 7 oz a day between them big scores like that last a while for them. I am still looking to find better prices on beef or pork heart though.

[GoingPostal]

Pork seems to go on sale for $1.30-$1.40 around here, usually it's machine cut stuff so I chop the bones out rather than pay another dollar per pound but sometimes the boneless meat is pretty cheap too. Beef the cheapest I can get is $3.00 a pound, thankfully right now I'm only feeding one dog who doesn't eat much so I can afford to buy a few pounds a month. I'm not sure what my grocery store charges for heart, they never seem to know in advance and I can only get it in 50 pound cases so I haven't ordered it yet.

[Love my lab]

For boneless beef mostly heart which costs me 1.49 lb. I also feed tounge, price isn't bad on that. If I can get other cuts of beef cheap I will get them but it is mostly heart and seeing as that is very good for the dog I dont bother much w/ searching out another beef cut. For pork heart it is same price as b.h so I again mainly stick w/ that, but when I can find shoulder roast,loin or ribs on sale I always stock up on them. Also feed p.tounge.

[Mondo]

Does beef heart need to be soaked when feeding it to dogs? I picked up some beef heart, and also found beef kidney for the first time. Both have instructions to soak? Is this just for human consumption?

[Imgliniel]

Lets see, for beef I have a deal with my local health food shop because they have an insane amount of shrink when it comes to beef. They pull everything from the fridge case on it's sell or freeze by date, and label it "dog food" and toss it in the deep freezer. Me and now a bunch of other raw feeders can get it anytime for $1.99 and this is grass fed or organic beef. I get sirloin, chuck roast and shank mostly, with occasionaly things like rib eyes or other cuts. Pretty darn good deal if I do say so myself. My other main red meat is lamb heart and I get that (also grass fed pasture raised stuff, I REFUSE to buy factory farmed for me or the critters) for $3.99 a lb in ten lb cases that they order for me. I also get some lamb and goat from a local 4h advisor occassionally. But it is not cheap, about $6 a lb, but it is an occassional splurge mostly. Pork honestly I don't feed much of because I have not been able to get the same kind of deals. I do grab the roasts and ribs when they go on sale, and that is ussually about $3-$5. And I am going to ask the manager about getting pork riblets, since those seem to be fairly inexpensive and I would love to give lucy some other bone besides poultry once in awhile.

[frogdog]

We feed a wide variety of beef...roast, flank, ribeye, sirloin, shank, new york strip, heart, tongue, etc...basically everything but tenderloin. We are fortunate that our local grocery stores have amazing sales.

I have purchased $75 worth of meat for $19. Heart, have no idea...only know a whole one is around $1.29...I just grab and go.

We do not feed pork due to Yogi being highly allergic even in the raw form.

Anyone living in the south that have Food Lion's and BI-LO's check with the meat department...they will order heart, tongue for you.