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Brewing a Kolsch this weekend. Looking forward to making my Rot some treats!
Brewing a Kolsch this weekend. Looking forward to making my Rot some treats!
I agree with this.. we raw feed our dogs.. because the existing food out there commerically available isn't really great for them.
Question...I brewed Sunday and put a few cups of spent grains into a tupperware container so that I could make these the next day. Well, I got busy and it was Wednesday before I got around to it. The grain smelled rotten, like ass, very sour smelling. I threw it out. What would be the longest you would hold onto the grains before tossing them? Is there a better way to keep them aside from tupperware?
We're brewing tomorrow and we're definitely going to try this. My parents' dogs will be the guinea pigs (I'm sure they won't mind though). I like the idea of selling them to local pet shops, too. Not something I can do on such a small scale, but breweries around here give their spent grain to wineries to place around their grape fields and keep the deer away.
Wha???
I would love to hear some science or proof behind this comment, because all the literature and research that I have ever read would beg otherwise. I grant you can make a nutritionally sound BARF diet for a dog, but other than waxing philosophic, have yet to see it be in any way superior to some of the commercially available diets.
I'm a little disappointed that a vet would not at least acknowledge the potential benefits of a raw food diet. Where is the literature you're reading coming from? I find this Wikipedia article has some good references to read through: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_feeding
The Dr. did acknowledge that a healthy diet can be created with raw food only. He was only questioning the statement that there are no adequate commercial foods available.
And for further reference it doesn't really bolster your argument to tell a professional that the journals they read are inadequate because you have a wikipedia reference that disputes them.
I've recently been feeding raw beef and chicken to my dogs. They go nuts over it. And then afterwards they want a Milk Bone... go figure.
Thats way to expensive for me. Do you cook the meat??
The afforementioned dirty little bast has some health issues when we adopted him as a puppy. Skin problems, digestion problems, and horribly undernourished, so we were advised to avoid giving him kibble or other store bought dog food, and make our own. It actually worked out cheaper (he gets kibble now, albeit high end stuff mixed 2:1 with Nature's Balance rolls) than store bought food - although it did turn him into (as mentioned) a food snob.Nope, raw = uncooked.
My dogs love these things more than any other treat out there. I'll have to do a test to see if they will go for meat over these though.
I love the dog food debates though, they are hilarious. Precisely the reason I don't visit any dog forums anymore. I couldn't handle all the "I'm a better dog owner than you, because they eat better than my kids" crowd. Sorry, not spending $50 for a 10lb bag of food for an animal that will eat 3 week old unidentifiable carcass and cat rockets for dessert. More power to you if you do though!
My dogs love these things more than any other treat out there. I'll have to do a test to see if they will go for meat over these though.
I love the dog food debates though, they are hilarious. Precisely the reason I don't visit any dog forums anymore. I couldn't handle all the "I'm a better dog owner than you, because they eat better than my kids" crowd. Sorry, not spending $50 for a 10lb bag of food for an animal that will eat 3 week old unidentifiable carcass and cat rockets for dessert. More power to you if you do though!
You should be careful when putting your dog on a BARF diet. Raw meats you buy packaged in the grocery store are meant to be cooked and therefore can contain parasites and bacterias that can cause salmonellosis among other things which normally are killed in the heating process. The longer the meat has been packaged the higher the risk. Dogs and cats are not immune to e.coli and salmonella, though tests suggest they may have better resistance than humans. The meat should be the freshest possible and thawed in the refrigerator, not out on the counter.
I raised my golden on a bones and raw food diet for the first year of his life and he was perfectly fine. I was very particular about what meat I fed him though. I gave it up mainly because of the time involved and the cost.
I usually don't even thaw the raw foods. I stick mostly to raw steak from the grocery stores and buy some frozen patties specifically made to be dog food. My dog loves chewing them frozen...
My dog loves these things. And as we were making them for her, we ate a little and they're not bad. So we decided to drop some sugar in a batch and make some for us too. We didn't use enough sugar and the next batch will be better, but for the most part they were pretty good. These may not only be our "go-to" dog treat but also our "go-to" human treat!
I was going to ask this very question if I could freeze grain and make the treats later.Our dogs go crazy for the grain treats. I freeze the spent grain a lot of the time cuz I don't have time to make the cookies right away.
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