Making Our own dog food part 2

We did it again:
We made a batch of dog food, hopefully enough to last two weeks.

Here is the recipe we used this time:
1lb bear meat
10lb chicken (whole)
2lb chicken heart
2lb chicken liver
2lb chicken gizzards (approx)
3lb turkey
12lb brown rice
15lb barley
3lb (approx.) of swiss chard from our garden, chopped
1lb peas (frozen)
1lb brocolli (frozen)
3lb beans

Instruction: Cook all meat except for organ meats on 325 for 1 and a half hours.  Add organ meats and continue cooking until meat is tender and falls off the bone.

In a large pot, add 1:2 brown rice:water and cook.  In another large pot, add 1:2 barley and cook.  Both rice and barley cooks for around 45 minutes, maybe longer, until they are soft.
In another container, cook all the vegetables until they are well cooked.


Once barley and rice are done, scoop into processor and pulverize.  We found adding a little water helps it be not so sticky.  When meat is done cooking, do the same.  Dump au jus from meat back into the already processed meat pan.

NOTE:ITS VITAL TO GET RID OF ALL CHICKEN BONES BEFORE PROCESSING!!!! MAKE SURE TO DO THIS BEFORE YOU PUT IN PROCESSOR.

Mix barley and rice well and add vegetable mixture to this pot.  Stir like crazy until well blended.

Now your ready to bag it up.

Take a ratio of 1 cup of meat for every 3 cups of barley/rice/vegetable.  If you use bigger bags, double this so its 2 cups meat 6 cups barley/rice/vegetable. 

Please note, we supplement this at feeding time with one a day doggie vitamins.

We also add an oil, usually flax, when we cook, and also tend to add either homemade applesauce (no sugar/spices/etc. just boiled down apples) or squash once we heat up the mixture.

  

Whereas dry food you tend to be able to feed less, you need to add a little more food when you feed wet homemade dog food.  Especially when the puppies are growing.  

We also add a single pill of chondroitin/glucosamine tabs.  These are just the human supplements that we grind up in a mortar/pestle and sprinkle over their morning meal.

We find that our puppies coats are healthy and shiny.

After every meal, the dogs thank us by coming over to us and licking us.  They also lick the bowl when its all eaten, giving us the worldwide doggie signal that the food tastes good.