| A little selection of different feeding methods |
| Written by Hedvig Tahlfeldt | ||||||||
| Tuesday, 18 September 2007 | ||||||||
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SKANSEN DIET. Worked out by Kennel Skansen, who has been raising German Shepherds, Rottweilers, and Giant Schnauzers for over 25 years; its motto is “you are what you eat”. It promotes natural, pure food; associates dysplasia with the lack of natural vitamin C. He has raised over a hundred dogs and none of them have suffered from dysplasia. He believes that not dysplasia but the dog’s increased need for vitamin C is congenital and he means the natural vitamin since synthetic ascorbic acid dissolves from the dog’s organism within only a couple of hours. RECOMMENDED FOOD: Raw young chicken’s meat with bones; raw meat chopped up or minced, especially mutton and beef; raw liver, heart, kidneys, flitch (a handful at least 4 times a week) or instead of those raw egg yolk; sardines with soy oil, one box a couple of times a week instead of meat and internal organs; 3 tsp cottage cheese + 1 tsp flaxseed oil every day; raw grated vegetables (e.g. carrot) every day and boiled vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli), boiled brown rice, porridges with added butter or egg yolk, oat brans, wheat brans, wheat germs and wholegrain bread; raw calf’s shinbones BARF (Bones and Raw Food) DIET. Worked out by an Australian veterinarian Ian Billinghurst. The main idea is to give the dog only raw food to imitate what the dog would eat if it lived in wild nature. 60-80% of the food contains of raw beef and pork, bones, turkey, mutton, chicken and fish; a couple of times a week internal organs; 20-40% grated vegetables, everything is allowed except for onions, which can give dogs anemia. Between meals, fruit can be given. BARF contains various diets, here is an example of diet for dogs suffering from dysplasia. RECOMMENDED FOOD: Red meat and all grain products, rice included, are forbidden; fish, chicken, and pork are allowed. Internal organs are not recommended, milk products are forbidden, an exception is unflavoured yoghurt of low calorific value. 70-90% of the food contains of grated or mashed uncooked vegetables and fruit; potatoes, aubergine and tomatoes are forbidden. Natural vitamin C and E are added to the food. YRJOLA (Yrjölä) DIET. Worked out by a Finnish dog-show judge and cynologist who has been raising Rottweilers for over 50 years. RECOMMENDED FOOD: Raw meaty bones (but not pork, old chicken or mutton), calf’s flitch, fish, raw grated or boiled and mashed vegetables and porridge cooked by his recipe. A recipe suggested in case of problems with ears and eyes: ca 10 carrots and 2-3 red paprikas are boiled and mashed. A couple of tsp with 1 tsp of sunflower oil is given during a couple of weeks to a dog of the size of a Rottweiler. The famous recipe for Yrjola Porridge: souse 1 dl buckwheat, 1 dl millet, 1 dl brown rice and 1 dl barley groats (beforehand washed thoroughly) in ca 2 l water for 6-10 hours. Do not pour the water away, but add 5 g sea salt and then whether boil the groats until they are done or cook them in the oven at 180° for at least 2 hours. The porridge stays fresh in the fridge for about a week but you can also deep freeze it. You can serve the porridge with sea kale, minced fresh nettle leaves or grated carrots. FINN SMED DIET. Worked out by a Danish veterinarian. Principle: 1/3 raw meat, flitch is recommended, 1/3 bread, boiled rice, e.g., and 1/3 vegetables (measured as parts of capacity, not as weight) + 1 multivitamin pill per 30 kilos + 1 tsp bone meal per 15 kilos. 3-6 month-old puppies are fed up to 3 times a day, in the morning buttermilk products with corn flakes or oat brans are given. 6 months to 1-year-old dogs are fed twice a day and 1 year to 14-month-old ones once a day. From the 14th month, every week one day is fasting, when only water is given to the dog. Views: 668
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