this prey model raw recipe we're going to use chicken necks muscle meat and some organs to
balance it out based on the pmr guidelines now of course every cat is an individual
so you'll have to adjust these ratios based on your individual cat's needs hey friends
it's jess and jericho and today we're going to use hare today's raw food ratio calculator so
this is on their website i'll leave a link in the description this video is not sponsored but there
are affiliate links in the description so when you go to the calculator you're going to choose
cat under the animal type and you're going to see these different ratios right here so the goal
for the meat category is going to be between 83 to 85% the bone goal is 7 to 10% and the organ
goal is 5 to 10% and then below you'll have the results right here recommended and actual so as
we add ingredients we'll see these numbers change so we're going to use chicken here so let me go
through here to find some chicken stuff so we have boneless chicken thighs then we're going to see
boneless chicken breast we also we want to include chicken hearts and i saw that they
have chicken gizzards chicken gizzards and we need bones so let's do chicken necks skin on
i'm choosing skin on for the fat and then we need an organ so chicken livers so at first you'll see
this this graph is off so we need to adjust these so right now we have two pounds of everything
so let's increase this to six pounds and this to six pounds okay so we're getting a little closer
right now for the meat category we have 84% which is right in the middle of what's recommended i
want to add more hearts so we'll go to four pounds for that we need more bone that went down since we
increased the meat so let's leave gizzards as is and let's increase the bones to three pounds
okay so that's much better eight percent which is right in the middle of the seven to ten percent
and then if you wanted to let's see if we do gizzards at 2.5 so that didn't really change that
much but i mean more gizzards the better right so we have the graph here it'll show you each bone
and meat bone and organs so it's right in the middle here recommended is 83 to 85% for meat
actual is 84% for bone it's between 7 and 10% and our actual is 8% for organs 5 to ten percent and
our actual is nine percent so again another note is that you'll have to adjust these based on your
individual cat's needs some cats do better with more bone some cats do better with less bone and
the only secreting organ that hare today has for chicken is liver ideally you would have a variety
of secreting organs and not just rely on liver but liver in this recipe is better than no secreting
organ variety is also key in your protein options so this recipe i wanted to keep it simple and
just do one protein chicken but let me know in the comments what other proteins you'd like to see and
i can make more videos like this and i'd also be curious to know if you can't buy from hare today
what's available to you at your local farm or your grocery store what kind of proteins do you have
access to and what kind of meat cuts do you have access to for example my grocery store i can get
beef kidney lamb kidney lamb liver lamb tongue i can get chicken livers chicken hearts chicken
necks chicken wings so let me know what you have access to and then i can try to make
other recipe videos like this how much you feed your cat is again going to vary depending on your
cat's individual needs hare today has this other calculator raw food feeding calculator so you put
in your cat's weight in pounds and they also have kilograms and then you choose the percentage of
that weight that you want to feed it's recommended to do between two and three percent so if you
don't know where to start you can start with three percent and you can always adjust from there
so if your cat is 10 pounds and you want to feed three percent of that weight it's recommending
4.8 ounces of food per day now it's going to be easier if you do the maths for the entire week
so for example you would take four point eight times seven for seven days of the week to see
the total number of ounces that you would feed that whole week then you would go back to your
ratio calculator add up the weight of all of the foods to get the total weight then you would take
each individual weight and divide it by that total so that you can see what percent of this recipe is
boneless chicken thighs what percent of the recipe is chicken breast and so on then you would take
the weekly number of ounces that you're going to feed and multiply it by each of those percentages
for the ingredients and that'll tell you how much of each ingredient you're going to feed
each week i completely understand this is a lot of maths and some of you might glaze over
and skip the rest of the video i get it but you just have to do this math once and then
that's it you're done now for meal prep tips this is what i personally do
i use a food grade silicone mat put that on the counter so that my counter stays sanitary now use
a food digital scale you should also get a cutting board a meat knife or meat shears and the meat
shears will definitely come in handy especially with cutting bones just check the description of
the actual product and maybe even check reviews to see if other people have used those shears for
bones i've left some amazon shopping lists in the description below you can also use nitrile gloves
and i'd suggest using glass containers to thaw and store the meat because plastic traps bacteria even
with regular washing give me a polydactyl thumbs up if this video is helpful so far so more parents
interested in feeding a prey model raw diet can see this video thanks so much so now let's talk
about how to transition your cat from what he's currently eating to this prey model raw recipe so
it'll definitely be easiest if your cat's already eating raw or at least wet food and i'd suggest
starting with the muscle meats and the raw meaty bones first organs are super rich so you don't
want to start out with those you might get some gi problems so you'll save those till later in
the transition save the juices from the meat when it thaws because that's going to contain a lot of
taurine and other water-soluble nutrients so you want to save those juices don't discard them save
them and pour it over your cat's current food and that'll get your cat in the eating habit and
recognize the the muscle meats and the raw meaty bones as food i do this with jericho when he's a
little picky about his whole prey quail chunks or you could just pour out the liquid on your cat's
feeding mat jericho loves lapping it up you can also use your cat's treats to entice your cat to
eat a little bit more i do this with jericho and i did this with my mother's four cats they all like
lamb tripe so i take little freeze-dried pieces and let them smell it and then put
it down on the plate or the food mat and then that'll get them going and once they're kind of
in the action of eating then they'll continue eating so i'm currently transitioning jericho
to prey model raw diet he's going from ground raw to whole prey and whole chunks that i'm
getting from the farmer's market and if you're wondering which supplements to use you can check
out this video right over meow to see the only supplement that i give jericho thanks for watching