How much fruit

[Dree]

[quote author=dogloverwoooo! link=topic=12656.msg244592#msg244592 date=1223576858]
just out of interest, as it seem most of you guys feed a raw natural diet to your dogs i was just wondering how do you know exactly what nutrients  etc to feed to ensure the dogs are getting the correct diet? its obvious by all your pics etc that they seem very fit and healthy but was just interested to know how u went about finding out about the diet?
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I used to go the whole hog, and do spreadsheets, which compare to the Nutrient Requirements of Dogs.  After over sixteen years of feeding raw, I’ve now gone full circle, and don’t “number crunch” at all.  I use a diet that balances over the week, and I follow the Billinghurst percentages.  Approx 60% Rmbs, 10% offal and the rest other meats.  I don’t feed vegetables or fruit at all, but my dogs do eat the apples off our tree.  And I do still use porridge oats some mornings.

All of my dog are raw fed and unvaccinated, and have never seen a vet through illness once.

[Anonymous]

Only cos she has to be different  ::)

[quote author=SuzAndTheDiva link=topic=12656.msg244611#msg244611 date=1223579808]
uhmmmm, well none –  🙂
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[Anonymous]

The pekes would live on fruit 24/7 with a little meat on the side with a rib thrown in for good luck.
The beardies like fruit and veg at the moment they are nicking apple and pears that are in the lane and browsing the blackberries every morning

[Dree]

[quote author=Mark. link=topic=12656.msg244589#msg244589 date=1223575856]
Cass loves watermelon and usually shares an apple with my mum in the evenings. She has fruit & veg pulp with her food 3 times a week. Has anyone heard of giving oats to dogs? Is there any benefit in doing that?  :confused:
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The diet I started off with, and the one my dogs were on for years, included oats as part of their brekky.  I was following partly Juliette de Bairacli Levy and Billinghurst.  Combining the two of them seemed like a good idea…..the dogs certainly did well on it.  I honestly don’t think there is huge beneft in feeding oats…..but I have to admit that I still feed a small amount….seems to be a habit I can’t get out of.  And for dogs that cannot tolerate a high fat diet, then the addition of something like oats is good.

Also, I gave a diet sheet which included the porridge to someone who had a dog with seizures.  Within a few weeks the dog went from grand mal seizures every day to petit mal every few weeks….an incredible difference.  Of course, it could have been just that the dog had been put on to a natural diet as opposed to kibble.  I have since learned that oats “have a selective action on brain and nerve cells.” (“Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine” by Thomas Bartram.)  Oats also contain the highest amounts of zinc, iron and manganese of all the grains.

[kizkiznobite]

the are a good pre biotic

[Dree]

[quote author=Aly12 link=topic=12656.msg244588#msg244588 date=1223575111]
I just thought I would mention the grapes and raisins as a lot of people I have mentioned this to didn’t know about them – I hope I wasn’t offending anyone
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No, of course you weren’t.  🙂 🙂

[Dree]

[quote author=kizkiznobite link=topic=12656.msg244648#msg244648 date=1223591001]
the are a good pre biotic
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What are?  Oats?

[kizkiznobite]

yeah….oats  🙂

slows down the minxing up of the digestive enzymes and bile acids with the rest of the gut contents
reduces the time of breaking down lipid 
slows absorption by as the intestinal contents are bulked up which allows longer for absorbable nutrients to reach the intestinal lining.
slows the digestion process right down too and so the absorption of starches and sugars is reduced in the blood glucose

[kizkiznobite]

and add a narnie and that gives the pre biotic inulin…

honey narnie and oats…ami’s fave kong  🙂

[Misty23]

Thx for all your replies, I will start giving more fruit and oats to my lot

[SuzAndTheDiva]

[quote author=Val link=topic=12656.msg244644#msg244644 date=1223588599]
Only cos she has to be different  ::)

[quote author=SuzAndTheDiva link=topic=12656.msg244611#msg244611 date=1223579808]
uhmmmm, well none –  🙂
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cos she special  ;D shed live on fruit too – but well just tough luck I guess  :-\

[Sweetypye]

Mine get a banana every day as it is a great FOS prebiotic.

they also get other fruit as and when often in a fruit smoothie, live yoghurt, banana, other fruit and a raw egg.

I do not feed oats or any other grain.

[kizkiznobite]

my lot get narnie everyday too…and much the same as your other stuff….poor honey though has a fructose intolerance…yeah …she a diva  ::) ::) but we love her  :-*

[parsonsmum]

Doug and Jack have always refused fruit straight from my hand,. So yesterday I grated half an apple each into their meal and today they had half a  banana mixed in. All eaten with relish ;D Must buy some pears tomorrow to try them.

[Anonymous]

Banana’s with relish??  :surprise: :vomit:

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