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Post by Sherry on Oct 10, 2011 21:23:57 GMT -5
Fantastic! Since she takes the thinner variety so well, you can start adding a wee bit less water to it over time. Example, if you use 1/2 cup of water in the mix, measure it out, and remove one tbsp of water before adding it. Give that for 2 or 3 days, then make it again, adding yet a tbsp less, until it's of the consistency of wet ground.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2011 20:20:37 GMT -5
I had to take a big step back recently. She was eating pretty good for awhile, water down even with chunks and heart and liver. All raw for long time. Then she started really wanting at the cupboard where her kibble still is. She heavily refused to eat the last couple days and I'd have to scruff her a few times. So I gave in and started mixing a bit of kibble back in. Not too much, maybe 10 little pieces per meal and crushing it in to the melted cubes. She seemed to enjoy getting what she wanted Ate it very willingly, and took in a lot of the chicken chunks while doing so. So I'll just continue from here and keep lessening the kibble as we go forward. I guess she decided it was moving too fast and she needed her crack kibble. I cooked up a chicken breast and blended it. She seems to eat that in her cage a bit.
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Post by Sherry on Oct 15, 2011 23:21:48 GMT -5
Sometimes you have to take a couple of steps back to go forward that's ok. Keep doing what you've been doing, and just go forward a bit more slowly. And once she's completely off the kibble again, you may want to either get rid of it, or put it in a sealed container so she can't smell it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2011 2:22:32 GMT -5
Ah good progress now. She's a few times now gone to the soupy on her own, and will eat it with no fight now if it has enough water and kibble in it. Water seems to big the thing. She's taking less and less kibble each day, but the ground chunks always need a certain amount of water mixed in. She's eating much more than before though now. I have her up to on average about 3 cubes a day. Some days before she was only taking in maybe a cube because she liked to lick the water off. Now she mows down on the chunks pretty good and doesn't spit to the side.
Tonight I bought and blended up a bunch of lamb kidneys, some lamb liver and heart. Also bought some halibut, and ground venison. Chicken gizzards too. I'll have to do a request to my meat shop to get some of the other organs like pancreas and brain.
Haha I've got about 130 assorted cubes now. That should last her a good month and a half to two months I think. I made a lot of cubes really thick. Mayhaps by then she'll be eating nice big chunks.
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Post by Sherry on Oct 23, 2011 9:46:46 GMT -5
That's fantastic news Since she's now going up to the dish on her own, try leaving the kibble out during the day and only refilling the raw soup as needed. You can put the kibbles back in at night if she doesn't appear to have eaten enough. And once she's taking it the consistency of wet ground meat, start slipping in some slivers of meat. In the interim, you can always try offering her tiny slivers to see if she'll jump forward a step or two as well
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2011 16:53:10 GMT -5
She had started to become really reluctant to eat ground meat consistency so I pureed up some raw chicken really well for her. The combo of the two (about 2/3's pureed and 1/3 ground) seems to work really well and she's eating it without any kibble at all and a lot less reluctance (almost none). I'd rather have her eating this then full ground with lots of kibble mixed in like before.
Is one quail egg a day alright? They're really tiny and I figure its a good way to get daily bone in her diet with the egg shell. I figure the 7 little eggs per week add up to about 1 big chicken egg or close to it.
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Post by Sherry on Oct 31, 2011 20:04:42 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with quail eggs, but I don't see why not. You can also powder up some regular eggshell and mix that in for the extra calcium. Some really seem to have a problem getting past the texture of ground. We can work through that Just move a bit more slowly for her. Keep her on the mix she's eating for a couple of days, and then instead of going up even to 1/2 and 1/2, try just adding an extra tbsp of the ground to the mix every 2-3 days. It should be a slow enough move that she won't notice the difference quite so much. Again, once she gets to a very wet ground consistency, we'll start slipping in slivers of real meat
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