We raise/ have raised chickens, geese, sheep and cows. We cut our pet food costs in two ways from the leftovers from butchering. A lot of organs from the chickens, the geese and sometimes the larger stuff gets run through our meat grinder once then we pressure-can it. This becomes our "wet" cat food. We feed our cat middle of the road dry cat food and supplement with a healthy dollop of the wet food nightly. The cat looks great!
While butchering a cow or other large animal we strip a great deal of meat off that isn't up to snuff for our consumption (the dried pieces that were on the outside of the cow after hanging etc) at the end of processing we run all of it through the grinder on coarse one time. It then goes into plastic baggies and gets put in the freezer. This is "dog burger" every couple of days I pull a bag out and that's the dogs' dinner.
Doing this definitely has put a dent in feeding the animals and I think it also provides some really excellent supplementation for them.
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Re: Homemade Cat Food
Date: 2024-02-10 01:27 am (UTC)While butchering a cow or other large animal we strip a great deal of meat off that isn't up to snuff for our consumption (the dried pieces that were on the outside of the cow after hanging etc) at the end of processing we run all of it through the grinder on coarse one time. It then goes into plastic baggies and gets put in the freezer. This is "dog burger" every couple of days I pull a bag out and that's the dogs' dinner.
Doing this definitely has put a dent in feeding the animals and I think it also provides some really excellent supplementation for them.
HV