Example of homemade diet recipe for a dog

Coco
Party
75012 Paris
Berger australien d'...

Id: DFR487475
11/09/2017
Female - Neutered
Adult

From the information that you supplied, the following recipe is formulated and prescribed for Coco, as its daily diet. Please make a smooth transition from his original diet, and refer below to find the steps on how to make the recipe for this new diet, including information about the ingredients and steps on how to prepare the diet...

Food transition

Changing food must be done gradually by mixing the old and the new foods for an average of one week: see our website for more details.

self-made recipe for a dog
custom made diet for a dog

DAILY RECIPE

The following recipe includes all the food (main food, and, if any, dairy and treats chosen) to be distributed during one day.
Weigh the daily amount allocated on a kitchen scale. Weights are shown raw unless otherwise noted. Water must be available at will in all time.

In any case, Coco must have clean water at all times.

ADULT

Check the body weight of your pet every month on the same scale. Proper nutrition, regular deworming and vaccination, and daily non-traumatic exercise are components of long-term health.

Ingredients information

Meat / Fish

10%Fat BEEF is either sold as is, or made as a mix (weight raw) of 50% of the amount as 15%Fat Beef minced + 50% of the amount as 5%Fat Beef mince. To avoid any infestation by parasites and contamination by bacteria, it is highly recommended to cook the meat (boil or steam, to reach 70°C inside for 5 minutes).

Viti5

Vit'i5 Home Made Diet (Orange) is available as a powder and as tablets. 4 g = one spoon as in the jar of 250g = half the spoon as in the jar og 600g = 2 tablets. Each jar of Vit'i5 Home Made Diet (Orange) powder contains a spoon, usable to measure Vit'i5 powder but also to measure the oil amount. If your animal has never consummed Vit'i5, start with a tiny amount each day, mixed oil, or even yogurt, prio to add vegetables and meat or fish. Once accepted, increase progressively to the recommended amount. A home-made diet with no mineral and vitamin mix is unbalanced and deficient, which generates numerous diseases. This Vit'i5 brings calcium, phosphorus, trace-elements and vitamins, all essential to the animal EVERY DAY along with meat of fish, even with dairy in the diet. Each jar of powder contains a spoon : a 5 ml spoon (which contains about 4 grams of powder) in 250g jars, a 10 ml spoon (which contains about 8 grams of powder) in the 600g jar. Tablets weigh 2 gram each.

Oil

Canola oil is rich in essential fatty acids omega 6 and omega 3 (olive oil contains almost none, sunflower and corn oil contain no omega 3), but must be neither cooked nor heated.It has to be mixed raw to the diet. Maintain the bottle in the fridge, protected from heat and light. Soybean oil can be used instead of canola oil. Each day, in order to bring very long chain omega 3 fatty acids such as EPA and DHA, fish oil can be added, but it does not replace Canola oil. Choose preferably fish oil in caps or airless container to avoid oxidation. Avoid cod liver oil, as it is also extremely rich in vitamins A and D, also essential, but toxic when ingested in excess.

Vegetables

Canned veggies must be weighted strained. They are cooked. They can be cut in small dice or mashed and then mixed with the diet.

Carbs

OAT FLAKES (do not susbtitue by oat bran) must be weighted dry, and mixed with the double amount of water or boiled in water or cooked in water for a few minutes in the micro-waves oven, until texture becomes smooth. DO NOT FREEZE/THAW cooked carbohydrates, that would impair severely their digestibility and may lead to diarrhea. If well tolerated, it is possible to substitute, at egual dry weight Oat Flakes, white Rice, Pasta, and Couscous one by the other. The 3 latest must be boiled twice the time for humans, and strained.

Dairy and treats

Watch the amount of sugar in the APPLE PUREE.

An average EGG weighs 50grams. The egg is given but not the shell. To be tolerated, the egg white must be given cooked. The yolk can be given cooked or raw.

Follow up and Nutritional advice

If the transition to the new diet is not successful, if the daily amount of food is not fully consumed, or if the behavior of your animal appears strange, please consult your veterinarian with no delay.
If you give this diet for a long period of time (months, years), we kindly ask you:

• To weight your pet once a month, and adjust the amount of food consequently (give more if the body weight decreases, give less if the body weight increases), or consult your vet.

• To weight the food and ingredients, to avoid errors that can impair body weight (by the energy provided) and long-term health (by the balance of the complete diet). If you change one or several ingredients, the recipe must be recalculated considering the new ingredients as different ingredients may not have the same nutritional proporties, even if they look similar.

• To not forget that, if the condition of your pet changes (neutering, activity, reproduction, disease...), it is necessary to recalculate the recipe, as the amount and proportions of each ingredient may need to be modified.

If you have several pets, recipes created for one animal are adapted to its own characteristics). Except if all characteristics are similar, in general, even if several animals live in the same household, their nutrition requirements are different and it is less risky to ask for a recipe for each.
Substitution of ingrédients: even if ingredients or foods may seem similar or close, avoid substitution without control. It is highly preferable to ask for a recipe including new ingredients, in order to adjust the amounts and balance.

Recipe © DrVet Géraldine BLANCHARD, European Specialist in Veterinary & Comparative Nutrition