Everyone who has looked into raw feeding has seen the breadth of opinion about raw pet food, and they've seen the people who feed their pet mince (ground meat). While mince is one great building block of a raw food diet, and why we create a high-quality chunky mince in our Raw Food range, it is not everything your pet needs. If you want to build your pet's raw food from the ground up, consider these five very important things:
One. Calcium.
Sometimes, it's this simple: calcium is a very important mineral for your pet's body and a lack of it can cause many problems in your pet's joints, skeleton, coat and teeth. A high quality, biologically available calcium source is vital for creating a healthy skeletal system. Traditional mince, the kind sold on supermarket shelves for humans, do not contain calcium, which is found most often in bones but also small fish, eggs and egg shells and in the nails of pet-approved snacks like chicken feet.
If you're going to use mince as a base for your pet's raw food, ensure you're also including small fish and bones like chicken necks for calcium.
Two. Missing essential nutrients.
Mince is packed full of essential iron, zinc, and B12, but there's dozens of other vitamins missing from mince. Vitamins like Vit A, E, K and D are vital for a healthy pet. You can find A, K and D in organs like liver and kidney, and Vitamin E in leafy greens and eggs.
If you're starting your pet on raw mince, bones and fish, add some eggs and organ meats, too, to improve the nutritional profile of your pet's food.
Three. Fat ratio.
It can be incredibly hard to manage the fat ratio of pre-ground, human-approved mince. You can not choose how much fat is included in even a pre-determined mince (such as low-fat, 80/20 mince) due to labelling laws, nor can you control the quality of fats in pre-minced meat. With this inconsistency in fat, your pet can be at risk of becoming overweight, having fatty organs, or even a deficiency in high-quality biologically-available fat that assists in the functioning of your pet's brain and their coat.
Adding to your mince, organs, fish and vegetables, is egg yolks and a small amount of high-quality fats such as olive oil.
Four. Lack of trace minerals.
Trace minerals including iron, zinc, copper, manganese, iodine, selenium, and chromium are available in such a huge range of pet-approved foods that relying on just mince to provide insignificant amounts of many of these trace minerals is only disadvantaging your pet. Roughage and greens like seaweed, flaxseeds, spinach and leafy greens provide these trace minerals as well as diversity of flavour and probiotics in these fibres.
Five. Convenience.
So, have you been keeping up? You need your base of mince, then to add organ meats, bones, eggs or small fish, nuts, leafy greens and seaweed. And you need to provide this for every meal, every day. Not sounding so easy? Knowing how to feed your pet a nutritionally complete diet can take mince from convenient to complicated really quick.
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