Does anyone make their own dog food?

[Orion Guide]

Was wandering what people are using as far as ingredients!! I have a simple recipe I use!

Boil chicken quarters, throw in some shredded carrots, oats, eggs, rice.... I am feeding cheaper then just feeding straight dog food. I mix this with dog food!

Any others out there that do this!!! Throw out a recipe!!!!

[lionhunterdaves]

I make my own food. I use bone meal, sunflower meal, corn, wheat, minerals and vitamins, wormer, and a few other things. I run mine through a pellet meal. The protein is 31% the fat is 28% so its good food. In the winter I add sunflower oil to get the fat content up a little more. Have actually been selling it locally and people seem to like it pretty good.

[Orion Guide]

That sounds pretty dang good.... what you think it's costin per dog to feed your way. Is it saving you money or just saving you from skinny dogs!!

[lionhunterdaves]

It does both, saves money and skinny dogs. It costs us around $600 a ton in materials to make it. Not including our time. Been selling it for $50 a 100#'s.

[cougarhound]

I make my own food. I use bone meal, sunflower meal, corn, wheat, minerals and vitamins, wormer, and a few other things. I run mine through a pellet meal. The protein is 31% the fat is 28% so its good food. In the winter I add sunflower oil to get the fat content up a little more. Have actually been selling it locally and people seem to like it pretty good.

sounds good daves but, why corn just curious, from my knowlege corn is not digestable by no animal. just used as a filler in store made dog food, oats would be a better choice,not starting anything just an opinion

[inchtowntracking]

Where do you get your materials for your food any of you?

[cougarhound]

Where do you get your materials for your food any of you?

i go to a couple butcher shops they are more than willing to give scraps away i then run it through my grinder give a one pound frozen burger in the winter on top of the dog food high protien good fat conted for the cold hard winter and cat races

[lionhunterdaves]

I use the corn because I got the recipe from a guy that used to make dog food, tried it and it seems to work really good. Why change what work.

We get a lot of the materials by salt lake city, and some locally.

[Orion Guide]

The smaller the corn the more it digest, just something i seen on some channel they did a study on... so cornmeal probably good!!

[driftwood blue]

way back when I first started, most houndsmen baked cornbred for the hounds... dang little meat supplement .. and those hounds usually made 10 -14 years old.
one fellow that lived 4 miles from us had running coyote hounds fed them the same as his cows except he poured hot water over it.... lots of ground corn-- might have been a trace of "meat and bone meal" in it but probably not much--- his name was Dale W. Lee--as far as he knew he was not related to the Lee brothers.
he usually had 20-30 coyote hounds , 8-10 coondogs and a pack greyhounds.... fed them in big long pans.... kinda like a hog trough. what a site!...--- I will guarantee there were no timid eaters there LOL!

[Arkansas Frog]

do you cook it? was that a pellet mill? My Grandpa had always 20 to 40 fox dogs had a large farm growed corn took it to the mill and had it course grounded, and had a neighbor lady that baked corn bread for him all the time, and the butchers saved him bones & scraps.I have a friend here in Arkansas that has 50 July dogs, coyote hunts plus 3 coon dogs and lot full of beagles he get 3 garage cans full of food from the high School,per day, you ought to see the dogs eat them potatoes,beans,carrots.

If you don't mind could you tell us a little more in detail how you make it.

I am 76 years old don't want to open up no new business just curious.

Thanks

[Orion Guide]

i just put 3 chicken quarters in a big pot and boil the chicken carrots and oats for a while, then when the chicken done I throw in rice and eggs. After rice cooked I mix in some dog food!!

[lionhunterdaves]

Our corn is fine ground before we mix it in with the rest of the ingredients. We put everything through a hammer mill before it gets mixed together as well. Once it is all preped we put it in a big mortar mixer and then run it through the pellet mill. Once it has gone through the pellet mill it goes on a conveyor belt to a cooler, then we bag it.

[Arkansas Frog]

then you cook it?

[lionhunterdaves]

No, as it goes through the pellet mill it gets cooked. Or at least to 200 degree's