[rawfeeding] New with questions

Hello,

I've just joined and also just stared rawfeeding our 2 great pyrenees/anatolian cross puppies. We have Badger a 7.5mo old 90lb male and Felice almost 6mo old 50lb female. They live with our sheep and poultry. They were doing fine on growing puppy food until Felice started limping really bad. Vet said large breed puppy food, made it worse, so when they went in for spay and neuter, the vet gave her a special pain med to help with the limping, no help. So online I went and found PANO, so started them on adult food and vitamin C. She got better for a while, then not so much and Badger's front legs finally started to grow to catch up with his hind legs and he started limping. On a visit to a large pet food store, we were not satisfied with the large selection and decided to go raw. We're very happy with our decision for these 2. We do also have 6 couch potato dogs in the house, but we're concerned they are too old to go raw and a couple of them can't even eat food without
soaking, plus I don't want to start fights that haven't happened in years.

So back to Badger and Felice, we bought chicken leg quarters, thighs, chicken livers, beef livers and beef stew. Badger won't eat the chicken livers, but likes everything else, though he is exceptionally slow at eating. Felice wolfs through everything and seems to want more, walking around Badger's pen wanting in. We're feeding them twice a day. Felice gets a leg quarter, a thigh and some liver, maybe a few pieces of beef stew. Badger gets either 2 leg quarters or a leg quarter and 2 thighs, beef liver and a few pieces of beef stew, took him an hour to eat all that this morning. Is that normal? We have to cut the leg in half for him before he starts to chomp, she'll chomp down on hers without help. Are we feeding them enough? I just looked outside and had to run and rescue a chicken from their mouths. Are they relating their food to the chicken on the foot running around and going to get their own if we don't feed them enough? We only just started this on Saturday
night. Do they need anything else added to the meat and bones? I know I read 2-3% of their bodyweight, is that per day? Then we're probably feedin them too much, but they're still hungry. We were freefeeding them their food before and the large breed stuff was just going right through them, runny stools, now with the few days of raw, their stools have already firmed up and become so much smaller, it's wonderful.

I see some of you feed fish, we have some in the freezer that we didn't know how to cook for ourselves. So we can feed it to them??? Bones and all??? It won't hurt them???? Defrost them, right?

Thanks so much,
Marion
http://mbldesigns.com

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