SUGGESTED FEEDING GUIDLINES:
Adult Pets: 2% to 3% of total body weight daily.
Puppies up to 1 year: 3% to 6% of total body weight.
Pregnant and lactating bitches: 3% to 6% total body weight
Example based on 2% of body weight:
10-20lb animal 3-6 oz per day
30-40 lb animal approx 10 oz per day
50-80lb animal approx 20 oz per day
80-100lb animal approx 40 oz per day
SAFE HANDLING INSTRUCTIONS:
Keep frozen, remove wrapper and place in covered bowl or plastic container to thaw in your refrigerator. Once thawed, use within 5 days. Allow 20 minutes to be eaten; uneaten portions can be returned to the refrigerator for the next feeding, or discarded. Raw meat will spoil if left unrefridgerated for extended periods of time. Wash and disinfect working surfaces, untensils, bowls and hands agter touching meat or poultry.
WEANING AND BEGINNING RAW FEEDING:
Once thawed begin weaning your animal into our diet by offering the same volume of food that your animal has been eating by mixing one-third HPP meat diet and two-thirds animals old diet for three days. After three days increase the HPP meat diet to two-thirds and one-third the old diet for an additional three days. Then go to all HPP meat. If you feel the stools are a little to loose at the time, you can add a small amount of dry food or rice to the next mealand continue where you left off the following meal.Keep in mind a healthy stool is not rock hard. A healthy stool fluctuates firm to soft and back to firm again over a period of ten days to two weeks. HPP complete blends are designed to offer superior health if it is the oonly food being offered at all times. It is beneficial to add additional Omega 3 using a high quality Salmon Oil. We recommend adding one serving of salmon oil every day for the two weeks, then reducung it to 3 to 5 days per week.
DETOXIFICATION AND NORMALIZATION:
Continue feeding the base diet of HPP Beef Complete and salmon Oil for several weeks. If your animal was on a dry diet continue for several weeks. If your animal has been eating a full or partial raw diet or meat diet, continue this phase for about three weeks. Do not feed ANYTHING else
not even a cookie. You can offer our HPP Freeze Dried as a cookie as it is the same product as the frozen diet. We want the animal to detoxify, whatever is not consumed will flush out over time. After a couple of weeks have passed and detoxification has occurred, the system will begin to normalize. Everything will work better.
BUILDING THE DIET:
After going through this phase of detoxification and normalization you begin to decrease the volume of food being offered by 10%. Begin to watch your animals body weight. You should mantain a layer of fat over the ribs, but when you look down at your animals body weight you should be able to see a waist. At this time we also recommend introducing an additional source of protein on the same day each week. A good example of this would be fowl. Pherhaps on Thursday only fowl is offered for mealtime, no beef this day. We offer HPP Duck Necks on fowl day. Chicken parts or turkey are fine as well. You can offer a groung chicken or duck blend, chicken wings, quarters or backs depending on what size your dog and what size bones they can chew. Consult us for the approriate size for your animal. Feed fowl on Thursdays but only for the next four weeks. After four weeks feeding fowl on Thursday, begin to offer another source of protein two days
later so you are coming back to the basic diet of beef between protein sources. As an example begin to feed fish every Tuesday. Also continue adding Salmon Oil a few days per week. Now your feeding Tuesday fish and Thursday Fowl and Beef Complete in between. After four weeks you are now on the Raw Diet! You Can introduce a third day that you change each week. We call this exotic day. This means either more fish or fowl or possibly something different like lamb, pork, green tripe or another good protein source. You can also start to alter days and mix things up a bit! You may feed fish or fowl more than one day a week, but we do recommend that you always maintain beef as the main diet at least several days a week. We like to add the additional sources of protein no more than three days per week with beef being the diet on the other four!
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