but it does come with access to the animal diet formulator and that's what I'm going to use to
balance Jericho's diet of these bags that are for my new tool and my diet sheet so for this
one I'm going to put the quail and the duck in there see if maybe that'll soak up some of the
moisture oh that seems to work a little yeah it looks like it's getting a lot of the moisture
so this is what it looks like four days after I vacuum sealed it so it's been in the freezer
for four days there's still some ice but I mean it's still better than without using it these are
the bones so the chicken wings and chicken necks I think that that has less crystals probably because
it's more Compact and this is it two weeks later hey Jericho so this is one week's worth of food
and it's been in the freezer for two weeks this is the one where I put the coil on top so there's a
few a few bits of ice but I think that it held up pretty well it looks like it held the vacuum seal
pretty well it's pretty tight so we'll see what it looks like after I thought so here it is in the
refrigerator thawed I put this in here about a day and a half ago no leaks so that's good that means
there's no holes and it looks like everything's still sealed so I'm gonna put it on the counter
and also get out Jericho's dinner dish because he's going to eat one of the Ducks that's in here
the little baby duck so it looks pretty good I I think I really like this I have some tips for the
next time that I'm have to portion it of course Jericho is always on top of the counter so I'm
gonna use it again in like two weeks and get some good tips so I'm going to put this in my stand-up
bag to keep everything together because I don't want any of the juices to run out and I'm just
going to snip the top off of it and like I said grab this baby duck for Jericho to eat for dinner
so this is some leftover Meats from the last time I portioned on the last day so I fill up the day
with this little baby duckling right here it's all wet because of the moisture that's in the bag
so I'm just going to cover this for now and zip up this bag and return it to the refrigerator
Jericho and return it to the refrigerator so that I can feed Jericho because I need to feed
him on this mat so let's get Jericho ready for his food he's got his duck and some pieces of
looks like gizzard and some other meat so I'm just going to lay this down on the mat
I wonder if he's gonna go for it sometimes he goes for it right away sometimes he doesn't but
maybe because he smells the juices maybe I don't know I think I'm just gonna have to dump this on
the mat it's really hard to do it with one hand while I hold the camera so I just pour out all
the juices I do add some water and I've been putting it in a warm water bath just so that
it isn't straight cold from the refrigerator so let's see if jerk was what he's gonna go for first
probably the duck yeah he's gonna go for the duck first so he of course drags his food all over the
floor but that's all right so anyway the benefits of feeding the whole parade duck is because it's
natural you know cats outside would eat whole prey so my superhero for whole prey is baby ducks and
the adult quail but we'll talk about that in a second I would love to feed baby chicks only
like even if it's like a large variety obviously is better but if I could feed just the baby chicks
that would be the best because I could just feed them whole because they're around two to three
ounces but baby chicks aren't that old most of the time they're just a day old so their bones aren't
fully calcified yet so unfortunately he wouldn't get enough calcium if it was just the babies
that he was eating he needs the adults and the adult wings and you know I'll talk about all of
those other superheroes after I clean up this mess so I got this little Furniture piece that
I'm not using and I'm gonna see if he'll stay off my counter because as you can see I don't have a
lot of room so I want to see if this little hack helps so I'm gonna get my garbage bag ready first
for the quail I like to chop off the feathers before I chop up the bird and I actually do this
a little differently so I'm just gonna get my bag ready and then I'll explain everything and again
all of these meal prep supplies they're always in the description below of course Jericho's up
on the counter so let me see if I can just put him on to the top of this cabinet here where the
blanket is let's see if he'll actually lay down and be a good boy let's see he's checking it out
so I don't know maybe all right we'll see we'll see how it goes oh it looks like he might just
lay down and stay there all right so here's the adult quail and I put just work over the garbage
bag but this is what it looks like it's super moist because of all the juices from the bag
because when I use the vacuum sealer it kind of soaked everything up so first usually what I'll
do is I'll snip the wings I just snip off some of the extra feathers because sometimes Jericho was
like this is too many feathers so I just snip off some of the feathers but really this is a
great superhero because it's small enough so that Jericho can eat all of the bones
unlike an entire chicken you know cats probably wouldn't hunt down a chicken but an adult quail
this is probably around five or six ounces so this is a little more than he eats for the whole
day but what I do now instead of cutting it into a bunch of separate pieces is I just cut it into two
pieces so he's getting some of the dental benefits of gnawing through the entire prey and instead of
like smaller pieces but I really like to feed this even though I do have to do some maintenance on it
but you know because it's you get the brains the eyes all of the glands and I'm going to cut it
over this jar because the last time I did this some blood did come out so I'm just gonna cut
it over the jar and I just split in two so I'll do two jars he's gonna eat both of these pieces
tomorrow and I'll just do it over the jar so that all the blood goes in there and then none of it
gets wasted and I usually start with the kitchen shears to get through the bones and then I'll use
these other smaller ones just to get through some of the skin these are just craft scissors
but you see all those guts in there and you know that's everything literally the entire prey so the
skin the connective tissue the tendons the ligaments this is all stuff that's usually
missing from prey model raw or ground diets so really this is a great superhero food to have
feed your cat whole prey because then he gets everything so I'm gonna go through my bag and show
you each ingredient and explain why I'm using it so this is boneless turkey five there's a little
bit of fat on there but mainly it's just the the muscular meat so this is the big base of the
diet and I'm going to cut it up into bite-sized pieces so that Jericho has something to chew but
this is really great for all the amino acids and especially taurine the harder the Muscle Works the
more taurine there's going to be and we all know how important taurine is there are some vitamins
there's also phosphorus meat is typically higher in phosphorus compared to calcium there is some
potassium and chloride and there's some small amounts of other minerals so this is a great
base to the diet because you know we need the taurine but all of those extra nutrients are also
important okay what's next in my grab bag we have some turkey heart so this is a muscular organ and
the difference here is that it does not secrete it is a hard-working muscle so this is also great for
amino acids Jericho just jumped into the kitchen this is also great for amino acids like taurine
it's also great for vitamin A and choline there is more phosphorus than calcium but there is a
little bit and I also cut these into chunks so that Jericho can chew on them next we got some
chicken wings and this is mainly for the calcium major source here because calcium is very high in
bones but there's also protein and fat because of all of this skin so you always want to feed with
the meat on the Bones skin is really great though for the fat there's phosphorus of course because
there's meat there's potassium and other minerals there's also vitamins A and E and some B vitamins
and choline but aside from nutrition chewing on these whole raw meaty bones is also great for
working the face muscles great for dental health great for mental stimulation and this is really
the best way to keep your cat's teeth clean is just chewing on Raw meaty bones because that's
what nature intended my other calcium source and raw meaty bones are the neck and there's a
lot more fat on these guys I like to cut them up so that it's easier for Jericho to chew so he'll
have a chunk of fat and then a chunk of raw meaty bones so there's also calcium phosphorus same type
of minerals and vitamins as the wings I mainly Focus to on more of a wing than the neck but
I do still like to include the next four variety these necks have a lot of skin on them so the fat
is super important because the turkey that I use is basically fat free and so is the other meats
that I use so this fat really comes in handy because it increases the caloric density and
also the palatability of the food so I'm gonna put this the bones into this separate jar for
how to do that before so I put the bones in a separate jar that way I can divvy out the bones
you know at least one meaty bone per day and I'm just going to return the fat to the bag
next up my superhero turkey gizzards this is a hard-working muscular meat as well it's tough
fibrous great to chew through so I'm going to cut them up into bite-sized pieces they're also high
in taurine because it's a muscular hard-working muscular organ also has vitamin A C D and E and
B vitamins there's lots of chloride and it's also good for potassium as well so these gizzards are a
muscular organ that birds use to break down their food they actually swallow rocks and then it mixes
in the gizzards to break it down very interesting this is beef spleen This Is My Superhero for
iron and it also has a lot of potassium actually there's more potassium than iron but this little
bit fulfills Jericho's iron requirements and this is a secreting organ so I'm going to cut this up
into very very small pieces because I want to make sure that he's only getting a tiny bit each day
rather than a big chunk because you know it's very rich in nutrients and so you want to make sure
that it's just more equally spread out throughout the week that way it's not so many nutrients all
at once these nutrients are great but they're very dense so we want to make sure that it's spread out
evenly amount among the week our next secreting organ is turkey liver this is a big superhero
for taurine this has it's the highest amount of taurine with compared to all the ingredients that
we're using so this is also highest in vitamin A so there's a massive amount of vitamin A in in
liver so again this I'm also going to chop up into very very tiny pieces because you want it to be
even and equal throughout the week this is another secreting organ typically this is a mandatory
secreting organ and it's typically used in all of the base diets and we don't want to overdo do it
because we don't want hypervitaminosis especially with vitamin A that's a fat soluble vitamin and
that's more likely to cause toxicity it's also good for B vitamins phosphorus potassium and
sodium kind of looks like pudding and beef spleen looks a little similar but you could you could see
this one's a bit more on the darker side and a little bit more liquidy loose so I also have a
bit of ground beef in here it's a little mushy so it's hard to find but this ground beef is
80 20. it's low in taurine but provides B vitamins iron potassium chloride and zinc there's also some
salmon in there that's my superhero for vitamin D but it's pretty mushy and hard to find it and
it's but it's also great for chloride and choline there's some green beef tripe also that's ground
and that has a great calcium and a phosphorus ratio also provides magnesium so it's a superhero
for magnesium also provides sodium zinc vitamin E and choline but I mainly use the beef try you know
for those nutrients of course but really it's also a superhero for probiotics and enzymes because
this is the best way basically to mimic the cat eating the stomach contents of prey so the tripe
includes some of that pre-digested plant material that the cow out or land whatever type of tribe
you have I use cow tripe so it contains those prebiotics and enzymes that the cows has in his
gut so this is what my grab bag looks like I just kind of mix everything together when I portion out
the food and as I said I do the bones separately and I'm going to turn on my digital scale and
start portioning out Jericho's meals and I'm going to use one dish for each day instead of individual
jars and then the night before I feed him I split it into two jars so I can do the warm water bath
so I start with the bone that way he gets one each day so that he's chewing on that each day and then
I just plop the rest on there until I fulfill his daily requirements and if it goes a little
over that's all right but I try to stay as close as possible to that just so that I have the exact
amount that I need for the week so I might have to put a little back into the bag I might have to
you know find a smaller piece I might have to switch out some things but I try to keep it as
even as possible so I'm just going to put it into this one dish because that's just easier and these
are actually freezer friendly the jars that I was using are not freezer friendly and then I
have my mild glove and then I saved from when I portioned out his food so I like to add that
to each day so Jericho also eats egg yolks raw egg yolks and that's my superhero for choline
I mean egg yolk is basically a super hero for all nutrients but I mainly use it to fulfill Jericho's
choline requirements my superhero Friday is kelp this one is USDA organic and it actually tells
you the species that they use and it also tells you the amount of iodine that's in it but you can
see that even one serving of this level scoop is like 300 the amount of iodine needed for an
adult so you would only use a very very tiny amount and I like that it's ground up into a
very fine powder rather than keeping it in the flakes because that's much more easier to dose
out and it also won't get stuck in the teeth Jericho also eats wheat grass AKA cat grass
This Is My Superhero for filling in minerals like selenium zinc manganese potassium also has good
calcium phosphorus ratio lots of vitamin E and B vitamins so really I just leave this out for
Jericho I get a fresh plant every two weeks from my local farmer's market I just leave this out
for Jericho whenever he needs it he knows where it is he'll eat it typically he eats it like 20
to 30 minutes before his meals so I just let him choose I don't put it on his food if he needs it
he can grab it and if you can't get it at the at a local farmers market maybe you don't have
a local grass man that same brand that I use now also has wheatgrass powder so I got some
of their wheatgrass powder just to have on hand just in case I mean my grass man is available
year round but just in case you know at least I have it in stock and this one is also USDA
organic and this one is also broken down into a very fine powder look at Jericho being a nice
good boy I'm really surprised that he stayed up there my counter is nice and clean because I use
the mat and then I just dump everything in the sink I really like using this food mat because I
don't have to scrub the counter afterwards I just clean everything with soap and hot water and then
I use this dishcloth that I wash every week so in the refrigerator I have Jericho's cut up Quail so
that's tomorrow's breakfast and dinner and then I have the next day's breakfast and dinner in one
jar so I like to split this up and then in the freezer I have Jericho's Quail I just got and
then I also got some baby goose chicks so he's never had those before so I had to raise the the
Shelf in my freezer to fit everything but now he has some new baby hole prey and all of his other
food that I portioned out so I have two days of meals in the refrigerator and then three four five
six and then a half a day so then I'll fulfill the rest of the day with the duck and then the
quail makes seven so this is everything my freezer and how I sort it out [Music]