How can I turn my RAW dog meals into safe cooked meals for those who don’t want to feed RAW? Canned food came to mind but hold on; one major thing is missing the BONE. Going with the truth that cooked bones become brittle, splinter, can get lodged in the throat or intestines, cut into the digestive track and so on; how can I make it safe for dogs to consume. Ha, ha I’ve think I’ve got it! I'll use a CROCK POT it gives me a way to cook everything slowly in their own juices without using a bunch of water. So what would be my base bone and meat?
Ok let’s get right to it using beef with bone took way too long to cook and most of the bone never became soft. I had speed things up, get it finished within 48 hours, 2 days was the goal.
Thinking back on Crock Pot meals my mom made, one jumped out at me “CHICKEN & RICE”. Chicken and rice was simple you place the chicken in a Crock Pot let cook over night on low then adding the rice 30 minutes before eating, being told to watch out for bones while eating. LOL! I’ve noticed sometimes when I let the chicken cook on high a little too long, when I was taking bone out of the pot that some of the bone ends would crumble up or break very easy. So thinking like I was making my raw food I should use chicken necks as my base bone and meat; chicken necks have the right meat to bone ratio to me with RAW food so why not use it in my cooked meals as well. I also like to add Fresh Fish to every meal it’s easy to grind up with a meat grinder or hand blender RAW, so cooking them and using a hand blender should be extremely easy.
So here it goes this is what I do: It takes about 36-48 hours to make, most of the time its done in 30 hours. Stir this up every few hours. You will need:
4-5lbs. Chicken Necks
1-2lbs. Chicken Liver
2-3lbs. Chicken Hearts
1 1-2lbs. Fresh Mackerel Whole (guts, scales, head) (Cut into 2-3 inches chunks)
1lb. Carrots (Cut off green tops)
1 Large Fresh Beet (Peel off outer skin)
1lb. Fresh Collard Greens (Cut off ends and chop them up)
1lb. Fresh Kale (Cut off ends and chop them up)
2-3 Sweet Potatoes (Peel off outer skin)
1lb. Celery (Cut off ends)
1lb. Apples (De-core the apples NO SEEDS)
1-2 Pints of Blueberries
1-2 Bunches of Parsley (Cut off bottom end)
6 Garlic cloves
4 Tablespoons of Fresh Ginger (About a 1 inch by 1 inch size of a piece)
½ cup Apple Cider Vinegar
¼ cup of Rice
1. Place the Chicken Necks in the Crock Pot along with the Apple Cider Vinegar, Garlic, and Ginger. Cut the Crock Pot on HIGH and let this cook for 24 hours.
2. After cooking for 24 hours, add the Mackerel, Carrots, Beets, Collard Greens, Kale, Sweet Potato, and keep this cooking on HIGH for 6-12 hours.
(NOTE) Normally I’m running out of space in my Crock Pot by now so I use a hand blender to break it down.
”CAUTION” your messing with extremely hot food and liquid; also all the chicken bone may not be soft enough to cut yet, normally most of the bone is soft enough to cut with a hand blender.
3. After this has cooked for 30-36 hours, cut the Crock Pot DOWN to LOW and add the Chicken Liver, Chicken Hearts, Celery, Rice, Apples, Blueberries, Parsley, and a ¼ cup of water then cook for another 6-12 hours.
Check it to see if you need to add anymore water. Don’t forget to stir.
4. When the chicken necks have cooked for a complete 36-48 hours, cut the crock pot off and let it cool. After it has cooled, I then take a hand held blender and chop it all together then either bag it or feed it to my dogs.
What you have when it’s all said and done is homemade canned dog food better than any commercial canned food best part you know exactly what’s in it, and where it came from.
