Transition Guide

This is the process that we follow with new customers.

Other Groups/Shops may suggest a slightly different method, however we have been following this method with great success for a number of years now.

This guide is aimed at healthy dogs with no known allergies.

Once you have worked out how much to feed per day based on the dogs ideal bodyweight, and age,  along with whether or not the dog in question is neutered (neutered dogs can need around .5% less than entire dogs) we recommend following this process to enable your dogs digestive system to efficiently adapt to the raw diet.

Puppies

1. Chicken and Tripe mince with approx. 10% bone.
   • Landywoods,  Just Natural and The Dogs Butcher produce a suitable product for this stage.
   • If out of stock, you can mix Bulmer's Chicken Mince with Bulmer's Tripe Mince 50/50.
   • Feed for 3 days.
2. Chicken and Beef Mince with approx. 10% bone.
   • Just Natural produce a suitable product.
   • If out of stock, mix Bulmer's Chicken and Beef Mince, or Landywoods Chicken and Beef Mince with Bulmer's Tripe 50/50.
   • Feed for 3 days.
3. Chicken and Lamb Complete.
   • Preferably Just Natural, as their Chicken and Lamb Complete is a nice mild product.
   • If out of stock, Chicken Tripe and Offal Complete or Chicken Beef and Offal Complete will suffice.
   • Feed for 3 days.
4. You can now go through the Completes, adding one new meat at a time, for example:
   • Chicken and Lamb to Turkey and Lamb, Beef and Lamb, then perhaps Duck and Tripe, Turkey and Tripe.
   • Feeding a new flavour roughly each 3 days.
   • Once your puppy is happily eating 4 or 5 different varieties you can go wild and try all the different flavours available from all the different brands in stock.

Always remembering to only introduce one new thing at a time, so that any issues can be identified easily.

For adult dogs, follow the same guide, but up to 5 days each on steps 1-3

For senior dogs (7+)

1. Begin with 1-2 days on Lamb Tripe, (Furry Feasts or The Dogs Butcher) then follow steps 1 to 3 above
2. 5 days in each step.
3. Senior dogs often need less bone in their diet, so if the dog does become constipated add boneless tripe to the diet to dilute the bone content of completes.

Once fully transitioned, you can then add a raw egg to the diet a couple of times a week, then you can add raw fish. We prefer to feed raw fish frozen, as there is a much lower likelihood of regurgitation when fish is fed frozen.

Puppies at 8 weeks, require approximately 10% of their current bodyweight per day.

• From 10-16 weeks approximately 8%
• From 16-20 weeks approximately 7%
• From 20-24 weeks approximately 6%
• From 24-36 weeks approximately 5%
• From 36-56 weeks approximately 4%
• From 56-68 weeks approximately 3.5%

Once fully grown, which can differ by breed, the average adult will require between 2-3% of their bodyweight per day.

Be guided by the dog in front of you, if the dog is overweight reduce the amount, if the dog is underweight you can increase the amount.

All dogs have different metabolic rates, just like humans so whilst one dog may thrive on 2.5% of its bodyweight per day a dog of the same breed may need much more, or even much less.