Question How much does the B.A.R.F. diet cost you on average?
We are getting a malamute& I was wondering if the B.A.R.F. diet was more cost effective than dry food? I know its much healthier and all that jazz, I just need to know the average cost. Cheaper? Evens out? More expensive?

Best Answer .75 - 1.00 per pound, average of the less parts (necks are only .45/lb) and the more expensive parts (beef chuck, chicken breast, pheasant, rabbit, venison are $2-3/lb). I've fed 10lb to 70lb mutts, specific breeds, personal, foster, patient, and friend's pets for over 11 years with raw diet. Occasionally, it takes longer than 2-3 days to transition a new raw feeder who has only had dry food their lifetime. Raw can be switched quickly, as there are not a huge variety of ingredients, specifically high carb and high fat, to which the GI tract must adjust. 14 year olds that didn't need a dental cleaning or extractions their lifetime, stayed in ideal body condition, beautiful bloodwork and coat, great heart and lung health, little to no arthritis, and stayed highly active until they passed. My breeder vet, that had #1 dalmatians in national specialty shows repeatedly for 20 years, and now top whippets, is Pro-Raw for over 15 years now. She promotes it among her allergy, skin and GI, patients, dogs with obesity, liver, stomach, or pancreas problems, IBD, cancer patients, geriatrics, and ALL cats, as cats are obligate carnivores. Many vets are finally catching up to her innovative predictions of animal nutrition's effect on disease and defects of our pets. She was a research post-doc prior to veterinary medicine, and confers with veterinary nutritionists, reproductive specialists, evolutionary ecologists, and many other professionals regarding recommendations and evolving new literature and studies regarding animal nutrition. We don't feed cattle, horses, or goats "cereal" only; they get primarily roughage, in the form of hay, because they're herbivores. Carnivores need meat. Meat that isn't cooked, ground, and pressed into tiny pieces. It seems obvious and intuitive, but the pet food industry has progressed too well and infiltrates too much of veterinary medicine. Vets and owners must learn to think beyond the AAFCO guidelines and talk to each other about better food options.

Question What are the exact calculations for the B.A.R.F diet?
Hi we are going to start our lab on the B.A.R.F diet and we have some specific meal plans and we await help. The question is how much turkey necks, cod and chicken backs(separately each) are in 12 oz. The answers only have to be a close guess. Also how much veggie puree should your dog eat(preferably by multiplying a precent by body mass). Thank you Also if this is easier for the formula p/bm=a precent times body mass equals amount

Best Answer Im not familiar with the BARF diet although I have done some research on it. Here are some helpful sites: http://www.rawlearning.com/ http://www.rawmeatybones.com/ http://www.rawfed.com/myths/ http://www.rawfeddogs.net/ Yahoo even has there own raw fed group you can join,I have heard they are very helpful,so you may want to head over there and start asking these questions. http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawfeeding/