Could someone tell me about raw feeding? tacoma/gig harbor,WA area?

[magicre]

um, your fridge?

would you want to keep forty pounds in your fridge? they'll go bad unless you're feeding a lot of dogs....

in my freezer, forty pounds can take up a shelf....until i defrost them and get them ready for feeding for my two dogs.....

i must be having an off day. i forgot i had read and participated in the entire thread other than the last question...

how do people type on tablets. i can't even type on my laptop...arghhhh..

[tricia beaver]

When I say fridge, I mean freezer. My freezer isn't very big so I want to know how much room I will need for their meals.

I also have 2 dogs, medium sized. How long will that amount last? I know it depends on the dog, so in just a guess?

[magicre]

When I say fridge, I mean freezer. My freezer isn't very big so I want to know how much room I will need for their meals.

I also have 2 dogs, medium sized. How long will that amount last? I know it depends on the dog, so in just a guess?

i get loopy at the end of the day..i went back and read the thread.....

you have, what, forty pound dogs?

so to start...each dog would get.....12.8 ounces per day.....personally, i'd feed a little less than that....

and i would get a little scale.

forty pounds is a goodly amount....and, depending on how big the backs are....each dog would get two backs per day? per dog.....so that would mean 24 oz per day total.

is that right? my math sucks today....

the backs that i bought were about six ounces each....there's a butcher in puyallup who sells them in thirty pound boxes, but he's expensive at 1.39 per pound.

what you do is bring the frozen box inside and let it start to defrost or get a bucket like liz has and put the forty pounds in there and let the backs start to defrost.

as they do, take the excess fat off the first few, along with the organs...and feed for brekkie after a twelve hour fast...see how they do.

two dogs would get about 24 oz per day....that's about a pound and a half per day. so forty pounds doesn't last terribly long....about a month or a little less, i think....by then, you'll have added proteins.

i know we had to buy a freezer once we started buying in bulk...in the beginning we did not buy in bulk. we spent a little more but we had to see how they would take to raw.....hope that helps.

[tricia beaver]

Yes, that helps a lot. Thank you! We plan on getting a large freezer when we move into a larger house in a couple months. I plan on getting the meat from minder meats cause its only 40 cents a pound for the 40 pound case.

[magicre]

yeah, but you still have to check my math LOL

[Scarlett_O']

For 2 dogs who get 1.5lbs per day you would be feeding around 3lbs per day, on an average month you would be feeding around 90lbs!

[magicre]

For 2 dogs who get 1.5lbs per day you would be feeding around 3lbs per day, on an average month you would be feeding around 90lbs!

i knew someone would come in to check my math...thanks, abi.

[Scarlett_O']

i knew someone would come in to check my math...thanks, abi.

LOL, you are welcome....it helps that that is what I feed Leo and Rhett!LOL

[tricia beaver]

So my husband and I had a long chat and he decided to keep the dogs on kibble until we get a bigger house. Mostly because we have no room in the freezer for their food, and there is no room to put in another freezer. It sucks but that's what we get for renting a small place. We should be buying a larger place by the end of the year.

[Scarlett_O']

So my husband and I had a long chat and he decided to keep the dogs on kibble until we get a bigger house. Mostly because we have no room in the freezer for their food, and there is no room to put in another freezer. It sucks but that's what we get for renting a small place. We should be buying a larger place by the end of the year.

I feel ya there!! We have a MAX 750 squ ft house!! But I squeezed in a freezer anyways!LOL