I don't know... it costs too much. Part 1

OK, so by now hopefully you are cottoning on to RAW being Biologically Appropriate, and making a lot more sense, given all the rubbish and very little actual meat that makes it into commercial pet food.

But the next barrier is cost. Because people assume that to raw feed it must cost a fortune... meat's expensive, right?

Well yes, if you were to go to your local Butcher's or Supermarket and pick up a nice chicken, or a pack of mince, you could easily be paying  £4 to £10 per Kg. Maybe more.

But most raw feeders do not do that. Not as a regular thing anyway.

We find suppliers who sell carcasses cheap. The money has already been made - the chicken breast and wings and most of the meat has been sold and gone into making food for humans, what is left is the meaty carcass. Perfect for a dog.

If you do your homework you can pick these up dirt cheap. Personally, I tend to buy mine from Higher Hacknell. They charge £2 per Kg or less.
I recently placed a large order with them whereby I got 20kg of RMBs (mostly chicken carcasses, some chicken necks and lamb bones), as well as 2kg of Ox heart and 2kg of Liver, and it came to less than £45 including the delivery fee.
So it worked out at £1.87 per Kg. Higher Hacknell produce is all Organic.

Compare this to tins of Pedigree, which contains just 36% meat (most of it unspecified 'derivitives')... According to one supplier, a 6 pack of Pedigree tins work out at £2.08 per Kg


If you buy Baker's Meaty Meals biscuits (remember them from this post), it'll cost you £2.23 to £2.75 per Kg from this supermarket, for this over processed, inferior product, which contains mostly cereals, and only 30% meat.
That's almost £1 more per Kg than I'm spending on 100% organic meaty bones and offal.

The other bonus to feeding raw is that because so much of what you feed is utilised and digested, you don't need to feed as much of it. (And there's less waste coming out the other end too!).

Part 2 coming soon...