I would love to start my lab, Max on a Raw diet, even if it was for 3 days out of the week. Where do I start, what can I give him, any ideas, website I can look at - any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.

i feed mine on the barf diet try these links
UK BARF Club - The Ultimate BARF and Natural Feeding Guide for Cats and Dogs

BARF Diet - Healthy & Natural Raw Food For Dogs & Cats, Pet Health Care Food & Nutrition Products Supply Online

you can also get some books ...give your dog a bone by Dr Ian Billinghurst and grow your pups with bones, hope this helps

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I feed breed specific natural diets. I have a lab so she eats what a lab naturally would eat, poultry and game birds, rabbit, fish, as well as fruit and veg, brown rice, eggs, offal, and wholemeal mixer. She doesn't get beef at all, beef causes allergies in most of the gundog breeds (if your dog has itchy feet or smelly ears, the vet keeps prescribing anti-bi's for, don't feed beef, you'll see a complete change)

Start off with chicken wings, he'll need to be taught how to crunch not gulp so you'll have to hold on to them while he's eating!

When you say "breed specific" and "what a lab eats naturally" what do you mean? I don't understand where you're coming from?

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Sorry, breed specific goes on the basis that all dogs were bred in different countries and for doing different jobs. So they would have ate different diets.

For instance labradors, coming from canada, ate lots of fish, then in england, game birds and rabbits etc, GSDs being a pastoral breed would have been mainly fed a diet of beef, they also have shorter colons than most breeds, meaning they need more fibre to slow down the faeces through the digestive system. A lot of GSD suffer loose motions, this is one of the causes, that can be altered easily.

Ah I see, I know what you mean now, I've read a bit about that.

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It works! My bus. partners all follow the same principles, between us we have labs, GSD, shar pei a beagle and 6 yorkies, and they are the healthiest looking dogs you'll ever see! if i can blow my own trumpet!

Now now calm down! I feed raw to all my dogs, they all get the same despite them being different breeds and they are all a picture of health. Although I've heard of breed specific diets I've never actually spoke to anyone that feeds this way. What would you do with a mix breed dog?

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Depending on the breeds, find a compromise. The only real baddies, so to speak are beef and white rice. So if i had a mix with a dog who one breed should have beef, the other shouldn't, it wouldn't get the beef!

Okay I wouldn't feed rice to my dogs anyway. We have a Lab/Staff and a Lab/Staff/JR as well as a pure Collie so what would you feed/not feed them? I feed them all a mixture of raw muscle and organ meat from beef, lamb, turkey and chicken and we are going to try them on pork too. They get mostly lamb as that seems to be digested the best out of them all and they also get fresh fruit and veg.

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