Hello all! I'm getting my border collie tomorrow AM and want to start him raw right away. I'm petrified though...Really scared that I'm going to mess him up since he's so little and that maybe I should just chance dog food...

He'll be almost 8 weeks old when I get him and after much research (still scared) this is the meal plan I have come up with using mostly a guideline I saw and a few changes.(stick to it for a few weeks while he is adjusted and until i see that he's ready for more variety and then phasing out the milk meals one by one at 3/4 months and 5/6 months. ).


Meal One
• Goat’s milk
• One whole egg (yolk and white, no shell)
• Whole milk yogurt

Meal Two
• Hamburger (to be changed with organ meat when ready)
• Whole milk yogurt
• Veggy Pulp (to be added when he's ready)

Meal Three
• Goat’s milk
• One whole egg (yolk and white, no shell)
• Whole milk yogurt

Meal Four
• Chicken wings or Chicken necks (to you think this is a good RMB to start with? and which one neck or wings or backs, or wholes.... i dunooo)\

And adding in a recreational bones too.

what do you guys think?

Wow! I've never heard of a diet like that. It sounds like a lot of work too. When I bought my shih tzo a couple weeks ago I was told to feed him Eukanuba (sp).

wow alot of work. Hope it works for ya.

timber is on eukanuba and gizzy girl is on a more fiber dog food so she don't get constipated as often. once a year is ok if she must. but not weekly. I like our vet but not that much.

I have been feeding raw for 2 years.The key to put the dog on rawdiet smoothly with minor digestive problem is not to feed all kinds of stuff all at once.
Veg were fed too much,too much fiber cause diarrhea.Raw Egg tend to be softener for poop,and raw ground meat tend to be fatty so tend to have digestive problem if your dog did not have ability to digest that much of fat in the meal.Many people start with chicken because leaner and easy bone and easy to find source to buy.

If you were interested in reading other people's experience of raw feeding,you can visit my blog page,click on dog diet and I have3 entries there.I listed up how I introduced food to my dog,what I feed,what to do when boarding etc.

Good luck!