Homemade dog food

For those that make your own dog food, what's your recipe?

Juno's stomach has gotten really sensitive in her older years, 11 years old. Couple years ago she was eating canidae, we then switched to science diet, and then most recently science diet for sensitive stomach. Recently she either didn't like eating it or just threw up what she ate. So we've been making her food the past couple weeks. We're trying to go natural so we know what's going into her food.

We've been making chicken breast, rice, sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots, eggs, and a pumpkin puree. She's been seeming alot happier and has more energy. What i worry about is she's not getting enough daily calories.

A week's worth of food consists of:

About 4 - 5 chicken breast
3 large sweet potatoes
3 cups of green beans
5 large carrots
6 eggs
3 cups of rice

Each serving is about 2.5 cups of this stuff.

Here's a pic of juno. Shes about 70 lbs.



Does anyone else have a preferred recipe or ingredients?

 

Not going to say that you shouldn't cook for your dog, what I will say is that it is important that the diet be balanced and micro nutrients/Calcium-phosphorous ratio is correct.
UC Davis's vet school offers a service to help create homemade foods as does a veterinary nutritionist online. Balanceit.com With balance it, they will sell you the necessary supplement to balance the diet once the ingredients are determined.
Good luck

 

Natures logic

 

Never heard of balanceit before. Very cool site. Yeah were still experimenting with what works for juno.

I think we're starting to realize that making homemade dog food isn't as simple as it is for humans. So were gonna mix in some dog kibble to hopefully supplement what she's missing.

But thank you for the balanceit recommendation. This is the exact kind of recommendation I was looking for. Thanks!!

 

You're welcome.
If your dog is vomiting a lot, it could be a food intolerance or inflammatory bowel dz. Food reactions are typically the young and old, so dogs under a year and older dogs that have been on the same ingredient (not necessarily the same food) for many years. I would recommend talking with your veterinarian about doing a diet trial with a hydolyzed diet, such as Royal Canin Hydrolyzed, for 8-10 weeks. You need to remove all flavored sources of treats, no table foods, chews etc.. to see if the vomiting stops. If things resolve, then you can move onto a limited ingredient diet or stay with the hydrolyzed and slowly reintroduce treats. The most common food reaction is to chicken. It is typically the protein and not the carbs. Stay away from grain free, there have been many documented cases of cardiac disease associated with them. It somehow interferes with taurine.
Also at 11 some basic labwork to be sure no metabolic or endocrine problems are present. An ultrasound of the bowels can help diagnose IBD.
Here is some reading for you
https://veterinarypartner.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=19239&id=4952600
https://veterinarypartner.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=19239&id=4951476