Description
Single Raw Duck Blend is a carefully formulated recipe using a single, novel protein with additional supplements to nutritionally complete the meal. This recipe uses Hare Today’s duck grind for the meat portion and must be served raw.
Who is this recipe for? Less active, adult dogs.
How should I serve this recipe? This recipe uses Hare Today’s duck grind, which must be served raw as the size of the bone fragments are not able to be safely cooked and could potentially cause damage.
How many days of food does this recipe make? The amount of food your dog needs depends on the caloric density of the diet. They’re all different! We’ll walk you through exactly how to calculate this in our Single Raw Duck Blend ebook.
What is the caloric density of this recipe? 48.92 kcal/oz
For the ebook with full recipe instructions, feeding guidelines, nutritional analysis, and more, click here.
Ingredients
- 3 lbs of Hare Today’s raw duck grind (boneless ground duck, duck wings, duck liver, duck heart, duck gizzard, duck neck)*
- 6 oz Brussel sprouts
- 6 oz Swiss chard
- 6 oz Cooked button and/or portobello mushrooms
- 30 gms Dried pumpkin seed kernels
- 30 gms Chia seeds and/or flaxseeds (All chia seeds or a combination of flaxseeds and chia seeds may be used)**
- 5 gms Ground ginger
- 5 gms Dried parsley
- 5 gms Nutritional yeast
- 9.20 gms Carlson cod liver oil, 1 tsp = 4.6 g
- 5 gms Eggshell powder
- 0.27 gms NOW Organic Kelp Powder, 1 scoop = 90 mg
- 3 gms Zinc, 15 mg / g, 1 cap = 1 g
- 3 gms Choline, 350 mg / capsule, 1 cap = 1 g
- 0.25 gms NOW Vegetarian Dry Vitamin E-400 capsules, 1 cap = 1 g
*Caution: The duck grind from Hare Today is very high fat. Therefore, the resulting recipe is also very high in fat.
**Dr. Recker prefers that flaxseeds make up no more than 0.75% of the total recipe volume out of an abundance of caution as there is concern for cyanide in flaxseeds.
For the ebook with full recipe instructions, feeding guidelines, nutritional analysis, and more, click here.
Instructions
For raw meals:
Cooking the necessary ingredients:
- Grab the mushrooms as they must be cooked.
- Since ingredients should be accurately measured in the state listed on the recipe (raw or gently cooked), add extra mushrooms to account for any change in weight after the cooking process.
- Chop the fresh mushrooms up finely or put them in a food processor to better allow them to cook through and make them more bioavailable for your dog.
- Cook the mushrooms at 300-400° F for at least 10-15 minutes.
Preparing the ingredients:
- While the mushrooms are cooking, wash all fruits & vegetables.
- Remove any skin, stems, or seeds from the fruits & vegetables prior to weighing.
- Accurately measure all food ingredients in their raw state using your kitchen scale.
- Ground any nuts, seeds, grains, and produce in a food processor.
- If you do not have a food processor, finely chop any nuts, seeds, grains, and produce used in this recipe.
- Mix thoroughly so all ingredients are evenly distributed.
- Practice safe food handling techniques, including washing your hands before and after handling raw meat. After cutting raw meats, wash all surfaces with hot, soapy water.
Remeasuring the necessary cooked ingredients:
- Once the mushrooms have reached desired doneness, remeasure the ingredients in their cooked state using your kitchen scale.
- Since ingredients should be accurately measured in the state listed on the recipe (raw or gently cooked), the measurements of your cooked mushrooms should now match the recipe.
Combining the food:
- Combine the cooked mushrooms with the rest of your raw food mix.
- Mix thoroughly so all ingredients are evenly distributed.
Preparing the supplements:
- Precisely measure the zinc, choline, and NOW Vegetarian Dry Vitamin E.
- Anything in a capsule (or tablet) is measured by number of capsules (tablets).
- For example, if it says “Zinc 15 mg, 1 cap = 1 g” and the recipe calls for 2 g, that means you should use 2 capsules.
- Capsule/perle ingredients must be opened and poured into food mix for better distribution in multi-day batches.
- Combine into a bowl and mix well.
- Once the food has cooled, add the supplement mix in. It’s important that the supplement mix is evenly distributed and thoroughly mixed into the recipe when making a large batch of food.
Serving the food:
- If you prepared a large batch of food, measure your dog’s mealtime portion using your kitchen scale.
Storing the food:
- Divide the mixture into daily portions using your kitchen scale.
- Store in airtight containers.
- Keep portions for the next 3 days in the refrigerator.
- Freeze the remaining portions for up to one month.
- When serving from frozen, thaw food in the refrigerator overnight.
For the ebook with full recipe instructions, feeding guidelines, nutritional analysis, and more, click here.
Notes
- Caution: The duck grind from Hare Today is very high fat. Therefore, the resulting recipe is also very high in fat.
- This recipe must be served raw as the size of the bone fragments are not able to be safely cooked and could potentially cause damage.
- Dr. Recker prefers that flaxseeds make up no more than 0.75% of the total recipe volume out of an abundance of caution as there is concern for cyanide in flaxseeds.
- Fine powder supplements and oils must be thoroughly mixed into recipe in multi-day batches.
- For the zinc supplement, any chelated zinc (such as zinc glycinate) works. Dr. Recker uses Solgar, Carlson, and Pure Encapsulations.
- For the choline supplement, any choline bitartrate works. Dr. Recker recommends Solgar because they make one that comes as 350 mg capsules as listed in the recipe.
