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hello guys and welcome back to my Channel today I am going to be doing
some meal prep for Zeus I'm going to be preparing all his food for the next week
to two weeks we'll see how long it lasts so this week Zeus is going to be 13
weeks old he has been eating a raw food diet since I've got him and he's doing
really well if I do say so myself he has lots of energy well he's either sleeping
or running around like a crazy cat anyways so the plan for today I haven't
been following a really strict recipe would have been preparing his food I try
to follow the rule of 80/10/10 so 80% of his food is muscle meat 10% is bones and
10% is organs with 5% of that being liver and I talked about why I have
chosen to feed him this way in a previous video so I'll link that up
above if you want to check it out but basically this is what cats should be
eating they do not require carbohydrates and most generic cat foods are filled
with carbs but that's the short answer so check that video out after this one
but anyways let's get into it okay so here is what I'm going to be
prepping for Zeus today the first thing we have is these chicken necks what I'm
going to do with these is half of them I am just going to cut up into smaller
pieces what happens is he tries to get the meat off the bones and it's really
good for their teeth the other half I am going
grind up the meat and the bones together and that is going to be his source of
bones in his diet then I have some chicken giblets so just gonna chop these
up into a little bit smaller pieces I don't really want to grind anything up
too much I want him to have to chew to eat it then I have some chicken livers
so again just gonna cut those up with the smaller pieces and then I just have
some diced lamb so as you can see this was on special that's why I grabbed it
but really any type of meat diced or not will do so yeah as you can see this is
$4 I'm only going to give him a small fraction of this and then freeze the
rest separately and use that later this was $6 this was 350 and this was $9 so
$20 in total for everything I'm gonna prep this will probably last about ten
days to two weeks depending so the one thing I'm going to mention is that I
haven't found a type of heart that Zeus will eat fresh I've given him beef heart
lamb heart chicken heart and he hasn't been keen on any of it so what I've been
doing is when I serve his food sometimes I add this heart powder and this is just
freeze-dried beef heart the other thing I might add when I serve it is either
some of these dried sardines for else I'll give him one of these capsules not
the whole thing I'll just poke a hole in it or cut it in half and give him
between a quarter to a half of a whole capsule and that's his source of omega-3
is one of these and yeah let's get prepping so I have a whole bunch of
little containers we're gonna start with the easy part which is just chopping
everything up and that'll show you what I do with the chicken necks afterwards
and I don't want to cut everything up into pieces that are too small I want
him to sort of have to chew on it chew through it sort of work to eat it and
this will help keep his teeth nice and strong right from the start and he loved
these chicken giblets he loves chicken in general actually the chicken necks so
these obviously have bones in them they're chicken necks but they also have
muscle meat on them so what I'm going to do with some of them is cut them up into
pieces like this and then again good for his teeth he just has to chew and try to
get the meat off of them so I'll put like one or two of those in for each day
I'm gonna try to break them down and then I'll put them in my blender so I
will blend up the meat with the bones and then that's his source of bones that
he's gonna get and there you have it this is this is food for the next week
to ten days probably so what I do is I'm gonna put all of these in the freezer
and each night I will take one out and that will be his food for the next day I
give him about a quarter of it first thing in the morning and he usually eats
that right away and I pretty much just keep refilling his bowl as it empties I
don't let anything sit out for more than a couple hours I get rid of it if it is
still sitting out but yeah I pretty much just let him keep eating and keep eating
he is a growing kitten so he needs a lot of food like I said before each day I
will add a quarter to a half of a fish oil capsule as well as some beef heart
powder but I mean I think it's a lot about experimenting and seeing what your
cat will eat the next batch of food I make I'm going
to completely switch things up get different types of meat different bones
different organs different everything and that's it guys so that literally
took 30 minutes probably cost me at 20 bucks
which actually might seem a little bit expensive but you have to keep in mind I
didn't use all of those chicken necks I didn't use all of the chicken liver
probably cost about let's say $7 a week but yeah really no time at all super
easy and my kitty it will stay super healthy so thank you so much guys for
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lots more cat content to come thanks again I'll see you guys next time
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