Beef Adult Dog Food Recipe
This delicious combination of ground beef, hearts and liver is formulated to meet AAFCO minimum requirements for adult dogs. Cook it or feed it raw. No grains, no synthetic vitamins and minerals.
NOTE: This food is for adult dogs only.
Ingredients
Makes 5.2 pounds of raw food. This is roughly a 5 day supply for a 50 pound dog. You may need to adjust the daily amount based on your dog’s breed and activity level.
- 2.5 pounds 90% lean ground beef
- 6 pasture-raised eggs without shells
- 1/2 pound beef liver
- 1/2 pound beef heart
- 4 ounces spinach
- 4 ounces kale
- 4 ounces fresh shiitake mushrooms
- 1/4 cup bone meal powder rounded or 1 Tbsp eggshell powder
- 2 Tbsp hemp seeds or hearts
- 1 Tbsp wheat germ oil
- 1 Tbsp ground sunflower seeds
- 2 tsp Himalayan pink salt
- 1/2 tsp (1 gram) kelp powder
Directions
Mix all ingredients in a bowl. If feeding raw, place in the fridge for no more than 3 days.
If cooking, move to a casserole pan. Bake in a preheated oven at 300 F for 45 – 60 minutes. The food should be warm and slightly pink in the middle.
Serve it warm and place the remaining food in the fridge.
Important
If you use beef that isn’t raised on pasture, this recipe will have an omega-6/omega-3 ratio of 8:1. This is quite rich in Linoleic Acid, a fatty acid that can cause chronic inflammation if not properly balanced with anti-inflammatory fatty acids including GLA and EPA.
It’s important that you don’t add any fish or marine oil to the recipe directly. To reduce oxidation, marine oils should not be cooked or sitting. If adding marine oil or Safe-Sea, add it to the food right before serving.
IMPORTANT
The ingredients in this recipe have been carefully chosen to meet AAFCO minimum nutrition requirements for adult dogs. Don’t replace ingredients or vary the amounts too much … this may unbalance the food. You can add a small amount of fresh vegetables or berries with every serving.
How Much To Feed
In general, dogs should eat about 2-3% of their body weight daily in raw food. Here’s a rough guide for this recipe:
- 10 lb dog: Recipe will make a 16 day supply
- 25 lb dog: Recipe will make an 8 day supply
- 50 lb dog: Recipe will make a 4-5 day supply
- 75 lb dog: Recipe will make a 3-4 day supply
- 100 lb dog: Recipe will make a 3 day supply
Nutritional Information
Typical analysis on a caloric basis:
- Calories per pound: 712.6
Analysis
- Protein: 21.7%
- Fat: 9.0%
- Ash: 2.5%
- Moisture: 65.0%
- Fiber: 0.5%
- Carbohydrate: 1.3%
Fats
- Total fat: 57.23 g/1,000 kcal
- Saturated fat: 19.27 g/1,000 kcal
- Monounsaturated fat: 19.72 g/1,000 kcal
- Polyunsaturated fat: 9.71 g/1,000 kcal
- Linoleic Acid: 7.54 g/1,000 kcal
- A-Linolenic Acid: 1.01 g/1,000 kcal
- Arachidonic Acid: 0.56 g/1,000 kcal
- Omega-6/omega-3: 8:1
- Omega-6/omega-3 with Safe-Sea: 3.5:1
Minerals
- Calcium: 2.58 g/kg
- Phosphorus: 2.57 g/kg
- Ca:P Ratio: 1:1 /kg
- Potassium: 1.88 g/kg
- Sodium: 0.83 g/kg
- Magnesium: 0.24 g/kg
- Iron: 20.90 mg/kg
- Copper: 9.84 mg/kg
- Manganese: 1.36 mg/kg
- Zinc: 29.19 mg/kg
- Selenium: 0.14 mg/kg
Vitamins
- Vitamin A: 26,520.43 IU/kg
- Vitamin C: 41.55 mg/kg
- Vitamin D: 130.76 IU/kg
- Vitamin E: 15.53 IU/kg
- Thiamine (B1): 0.60 mg/kg
- Riboflavin (B2): 3.93 mg/kg
- Niacin (B3): 33.61 mg/kg
- Pantothenic Acid (B5): 9.33 mg/kg
- Pyridoxine (B6): 2.28 mg/kg
- Vitamin (B12): 0.06 mg/kg
- Folic Acid: 0.31 mg/kg
- Choline: 872.11 mg/kg
- Vitamin (K1): 379.18 mg/kg
- Biotin: 0.00 mg/kg
