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I'd like to see what fellow farmers make for their pets.

I have a semi feral cat that I look after, besides regular food I like to make it chicken broth (especially when it gets cold). I get dirt cheap chicken necks from my butcher, and just put those in my instant pot with water to pressure cook. I freeze individual servings and warm them to coolish body temp in the morning for him.

Otherwise, before my elderly cat just passed, she had tummy issues. I made her the aforementioned broth, with rice, chicken breast, and pumpkin. It wasn't her every meal food, but a every few meals dish. Close to a cat congee.
 
A family member of mine used to put chicken breasts into a heavy duty food processor bones and all. An old cat of mine stopped eating and once we gave him that plus some catnip as garnish, his appetite came right back. We got several more years of life out of him. Catnip really is magical that way.
 
People have lived with domesticated cats and dogs for several millennia. Until the twentieth century said dogs and cats ate table scraps and the guts and hides of slain animals as their primary nourishment. I'd say that's the best diet for them. That has been the preferred diet for any cat or dog that I have ever had. They will eat the dog food if they are hungry, but they crave the table scraps, and if you butcher animals, they will visit the gut pile and come back so fat you can hardly recognize them.
 
my parents had a dog with a sensitive digestive system, they'd just boil the crap out of leg quarters or whatever chicken was cheapest and rip the meat up
it was way cheaper than "good" dog food
 
White rice with peas and carrots. Use filtered water. Don't forget some lean chicken.
 
I've seen people breed mice and rats for their snake food. Does that count?

For real though, that's something I've been thinking about whenever I get a dog again. I don't have cats or dogs, but I have chickens. They'll eat practically anything but their main diet is layer crumbles from the feed store. Maybe sometime I'll look at prices of getting all the raw ingredients and combining them myself. I'd just want to make sure they get all the calcium, protein and other nutrients they need.
 
In my logic, it's best to give your pets whatever is a part of their natural diet or close to it, maybe with improvements safe and healthy for them.
 
I feed my pets regular food, but I do make my own dog biscuits. Just mix flour with pumpkin or squash puree, cooking oil and eggs. Maybe bananas if the dogs like them. Then I knead the dough and even have a bone-shaped cookie cutter. My dogs like that shit.
My parents feed their own dogs with only chicken meat and cow entrails. The problem is I don't know if that's really good for them because they got fat and one of them seems to have digestive problems. I'm always telling them to feed the animals with something better but those seniles just won't listen.
 
Coffee Druid dijo:
I've seen people breed mice and rats for their snake food. Does that count?
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I'm trying to transition my snake from rats to rabbits. It was a hard transition from mice to rats, but we did it. It's another hard transition now. Wild snakes eat whatever comes along, but captive snakes get used to a certain diet. Reptiles are finicky.

Coffee Druid dijo:
For real though, that's something I've been thinking about whenever I get a dog again. I don't have cats or dogs, but I have chickens. They'll eat practically anything but their main diet is layer crumbles from the feed store. Maybe sometime I'll look at prices of getting all the raw ingredients and combining them myself. I'd just want to make sure they get all the calcium, protein and other nutrients they need.
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Only production chickens need a special diet. Regular chickens like grass and bugs and that is all the nurishment that they need. If you have the space and no predators just have some yard chickens. If you have a fenced in yard you can clip their wings so they don't fly over the fence. It doesn't hurt them. You just snip some feathers from time to time like a hair cut. If that isn't your circumstance, research chicken tractors. Feeding grain to animals is another 20th century innovation. The three shepherds that visited baby Jesus didn't stop by on their way to the feed mill to buy a bag of Purina Sheep Chow.
 
Cup Noodle dijo:
I'm trying to transition my snake from rats to rabbits. It was a hard transition from mice to rats, but we did it. It's another hard transition now. Wild snakes eat whatever comes along, but captive snakes get used to a certain diet. Reptiles are finicky.


Only production chickens need a special diet. Regular chickens like grass and bugs and that is all the nurishment that they need. If you have the space and no predators just have some yard chickens. If you have a fenced in yard you can clip their wings so they don't fly over the fence. It doesn't hurt them. You just snip some feathers from time to time like a hair cut. If that isn't your circumstance, research chicken tractors. Feeding grain to animals is another 20th century innovation. The three shepherds that visited baby Jesus didn't stop by on their way to the feed mill to buy a bag of Purina Sheep Chow.
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I have two dozen chickens in a 650 sq foot covered run, plus a coop inside. Our area has hawks, coyotes and other stuff so free ranging can be dangerous, not to mention the fence around our property is pretty shoddy. As it is, I try to give them scratch seeds, fruit and veg, dried bugs, crushed egg shell and alfalfa to eat besides their bagged food. Never had a soft shell egg or any other issue. But I wouldn't mind looking into mixes I can make myself. I'm even curious about fermenting chicken feed, as I've seen others do it.

Maybe one day when I move out on my own I can have a nice little field to free range the kiddos in.
 
He gets plentiful bone chewing aswell and generally enjoys a good hog foot off the grill while i am cooking something

I also save all my eggshells for him and put them in his kibble. My dog loves eggshells and they are good for his coat.

Ive been thinking how much cheaper it would be to just make him food and it makes sense. You can definately feed your dog for $20. A bucket of Chitlins for example is like 99 cents. Gizzards and tongues...bag of rice. All that shit is cheap and way more healthier than the bagged stuff
 
My rabbits really like those compressed hay and pellet cookies as treats. You can make your own by taking pellet dust/ground pellets and combining a ripe banana and some ground hay and baking them at 340-350 for about 30 minutes. sometimes i add carrot or greens. Feed sparingly but if you have rabbits they go crazy over these. guinea pigs might be able to eat this too.
Not as many home made options for rabbits since they eat hay 90% of the time but it's a fun little project.
 
I have a pet apple snail, I make her snello (snail jello) because she is a picky little bitch and refuses to eat spirulina (which most commercial fish foods have)
Usually you just steam and puree vegetables like carrots, brocolli or green beans. Add like 2 packets of unflavored gelatin to the hot vegetable puree and calcium carbonate powder. The amount of gealtine to puree is dependent on how much vegetables you are using. You could add spirulina too but she won't go for it.

Other than that she eats normal vegetables that have been blanched and other little dried sea critters for protein.
 
Our mostly outdoor, semi indoor partially stray boy needs some warmth so I've been making him some soup. I get a ton of chicken necks (mostly free from my very sweet butcher) and cook them in my instant pot to make a broth. The boy loves it, he gets it body temp in the morn. I posted that recipe in the op, but now I add some chicken breast and mix it with regular wet food. He seemed a bit ill last week, but the broth perked him right up.
 
My veterinarian just sent me this, am cat person but I was curious about basic bitch bugout food requirements for doggos

Homemade diets very slippery slope. All commercial dog food diets even the absolute shittiest are fully balanced and supplemented with appropriate minerals and nutrients. Yes they are adding in calcium for egg shells but think about how many other minerals dogs would be missing out if just ate that. Taurine? Vitamin D? I tell owners if going to cook for their dogs at least feed some dry food so they can get full minerals and nutrients.
 
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