Essential Ingredients for Homemade Dog Food

dr jones what exactly needs to be in a homemade dog food in this video i'm going to show you exactly what ingredients you need to add hello welcome back to my channel if you're new welcome i'm having a brand new webinar called how to stop the most common dog diseases at home with pet food supplements and my selected natural remedies you can click the link in the box below to sign up you want to make your dog's food at home and you're kind of wondering like what exactly do i need to add first i want

to thank one of the subscribers you suggested like dr jones can you please do a video on what exactly needs to be in a homemade dog food recipe thank you and this is it many pet parents that i talk to have this big concern about not having a nutritionally balanced homemade pet food recipe rightfully so i mean so much of the information that you might read on the internet coming from veterinarians it's got to be nutritionally balanced and many of those same people say like when in doubt eat this stuff this kibble it's quote unquote

balanced but in my opinion i really feel that most homemade dots they're just far healthier like you're making fresh ingredients you know what's going into it they're not toxin contaminated filled [Music] number one you need to start with a good quality protein focusing on lean beef lean chicken lean turkey including eggs that have a high quality balanced amino acid profile we want the animal protein to be the primary part of the diet and that's the first thing that we're focusing on for this video and often what i'll feed tula is i suggest grab this ground

turkey which is an awesome source of protein as well i'm adding in an egg which is another great quality protein probably the most balanced amino acid profile in making this recipe i would start with one pound of the ground turkey and add in one to two eggs number two the carbohydrates they're not needed to be part of your dog's diet but i would prefer you choose one of the healthy carbohydrates be it ground rice potato or sweet potato i'm choosing sweet potato for today's recipe and in particular they also provide those healthy ones some really

good key nutrients this sweet potato here is rich in fiber protein vitamins a c e the b vitamins as well as potassium in making a recipe for tula i'd be adding in one cup of the sweet potato fat it is a key ingredient and needs to be added to every dog food the sunflower oil can give us a balanced omega-6 omega-3 fatty acid ratio really important for just general dog health secondarily sunflower is really high in vitamin e one of like the most important antioxidant vitamins and you really need to have adequate levels of vitamin

e in your dog's diet a coconut oil is another great source as far as a healthy fat and it's also really rich in vitamin e a general rule of thumb is you're adding in one tablespoon of the oil per pound of meat right so we've got one pound of ground turkey we'd have one tablespoon of this [Music] number four i would add in additional omega-3 fatty acids we're looking at krill oil doses of about 500 milligrams per 20 pounds of body weight daily for this recipe she would get one tablet lucky dog and we add

that in after everything's cooked calcium if you're not feeding your dog bones you're gonna need to be adding calcium in some form of a supplement to make this a balanced diet i prefer calcium in the form of ground eggshell it's inexpensive and eggs are part of a recipe so to make the grown eggshell i'll rinse out my egg i put it in the oven for about 10 or 15 minutes and there it is here's our oven roasted eggshell and i grind it in a coffee grinder for each pound of meat that's being fed we're feeding

one pound mixing up one pound you're adding in about a thousand milligrams of calcium so that would equate to one half a teaspoon of our ground eggshell after the meat the sweet potato the veggies are cooked up then i'd be adding this [Music] remember what your mother always said you gotta eat your veggies dark green leafy vegetables are probably the best ones to be adding kale as i prefer under spinach you know it's rich in many of the vitamins vitamin a vitamin c they're rich in some of the minerals calcium zinc and potassium all like

key nutrients that should be in your dog's diet you're getting all of these including things such as flavonoids gluten and kale and when i'm making something like this for tula i'd be adding in about a chopped cup full cup of the kale and i lightly steam it [Music] the last big kind of overall ingredient group you need to be thinking about is fiber i mean if you're using the kale the spinach you've got additional fiber using a sweet potato you've got some additional fiber fiber is one of those big key things that keeps your gut

keeps your dog's gut much happier the fiber source i prefer is ground flax just so happens to be in one of my supplement bottles i take blacks daily too a standard amount of ground flax is about a teaspoon per cup of food fed daily you know tula get one or two teaspoons a day there it is there you could smell it you could say like oh so so good [Music] then lastly it's the vitamin minerals they're in all the things that we've just discussed i'm going to highlight the big important ones that really need to

be in a balanced homemade diet some of those vitamins we overlook so vitamin d high amount for an egg yolk you're beating eggs you've got your vitamin d covered vitamin e there's a ton of vitamin e and sunflower oil if eating sunflower oil your vitamin e is covered the b vitamins so important for healthy brain healthy nerves guess what they're in kale they're in sweet potato then lastly many of those minerals we often overlook iron there's a bunch of iron in the meat that we're feeding also in the kale zinc it's in our animal protein

it's also in our ground flax iodine super important mineral to have a normal healthy functioning thyroid gland what's rich in iodine egg yolks you're feeding eggs your iodine is covered the last big key micronutrient that is often left out of dog food recipes potassium what's rich in potassium many you think of banana you know what else sweet potato you got your sweet potato in there your potassium is covered as well last but not least say you don't want to worry about all that stuff you just want to sort of make a balanced recipe you're going

to do some animal protein some healthy carbohydrate like the sweet potato maybe some carrots and kale and you just want to make sure all the other vitamins and minerals there i have something for you may i suggest my supplement dr jones's ultimate canine advanced health formula it's a complete multivitamin multi-mineral supplement with a number of other key ingredients that are added in to help keep your dog healthy naturally prevent disease thanks again for watching this video i'm going to put specific descriptions of all those things that we've just discussed then lastly i really encourage you

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