Healthy Home Made Dog Food–Tips on Proper Canine Nutrition

Tips on the  balance of protein, fat, carbohydrate, and vitamins and minerals  needed to prepare a nutritionally balanced home made dog food. Please see the chart.

	Non-working Adult	Young Adult Pregnant Female or working Adult	Puppy or Lactating Female
Protein	16%	20%	24%
Fat	10%	12%	14%
Carbohydrate	44%	38%	32%
Calories from protein	20%	24%	28%
Vitamins and minerals	A	B	C

This chart is not complete but it should begin to give you an idea of how to approach making your healthy, nutritionally correct dog food. 

Keep in mind that dogs require a variety of food sources.  As much as dogs may appear to love different meats, they still need carbohydrates, starches, and vegetables, and just like us, they need protein, fats, carbohydrates, aand fiber.

To prepare a proper canine meal, you will also have to add vitamin and mineral supplements.  Here is an example of one such meal courtesy of CBS News:

Rice (white, long-grain, regular, cooked) 3-7/8cup
Oil (vegetable, corn) 4-1/4 tsp
Chicken (breast, cooked) 5-1/8 oz

You must also add these human supplements:
1-1/8 tablets of One a Day Maximum Multivitamin/mineral supplement
3-7/8 of Posture caplet (600 mg elemental calcium)
1-3/8 tablets of generic choline tablet (600 mg tablet w/250 mg choline)
1 tsp of Morton Lite Salt Mixture
1/8 tsp of Morton Salt Substitute
3/4 tablet of generic zinc gluconate tablet (250 mg tablet w/30 mg elemental zinc)

There is some controversy over whether or not to cook meats for dogs.  However, this recipe requires that you prepare the food in the following manner:

• Bake the chicken in the oven.
• cook the white rice without adding salt.

Rice must be thoroughly cooked so that it does not expand in the dog’s stomach. Also, to repeat, do not salt your dog’s food. In fact, as a general rule, do not salt any of your dog’s food unless you are following instructions from a vet or veterinary nutritionist.

When you finish cooking the chicken and rice, chop the chicken into small pieces, and then place the white rice in a bowl and add the oil and the supplements. Mix well.   Add the chicken to the rice mixture and then feed your dogs.

Want more information? See the Complete Dog Food and Nutrition Guide.

To find out how to feed your dog for astonishing nutritional results, click on, Healthy Food for Dogs.

 

 

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