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Most people usually buy dog food for their dogs, but some ingenious owners also make dog food by themselves, which not only saves the cost, but also enables owners to know more about dog food. However, it's not easy to make dog food by ourselves, and there are many places that we need to pay attention to, so let's talk about the precautions of making dog food by ourselves.
1. Balanced nutrition, differential treatment: the dog's feed should be prepared to meet the needs of all kinds of dogs with nutritious feed, and the dog's health should not be affected by a certain nutritional deficiency. Different treatment is based on the development and physiological changes of different dogs.
2. Pay attention to hygiene: feed preparation should meet hygiene requirements. Feed, whether animal or plant, is usually cleaned, then processed and cooked. Plant feed can be ground, then added with fish meal, bone meal, salt, etc., steamed into cakes, cakes or steamed buns, or boiled into thick porridge paste. Animal feed, such as meat, fish and leftovers, can be washed, chopped, heated and cooked, or boiled into soup. When feeding, you can crush steamed cakes or steamed buns, add soup of meat, fish, vegetables, etc., and stir into porridge for feeding. You can also add grain feed, bone meal, salt, etc. into pork or root tuber soup to make porridge paste. In addition, green leafy vegetables and various additives can be added to the pot for a short time, and cannot be overcooked, so as to prevent the effective ingredients from being destroyed. In short, the feed should be fresh and clean, and it is forbidden to feed the dog with rotten and moldy feed to prevent food poisoning.
3. Improve the palatability and digestibility of the feed: When burning the feed, it is not advisable to burn the feed to prevent the bitter and burnt taste from affecting the dog's appetite or causing the dog to refuse to eat. Sure. It can't be made into raw feed, because raw feed will ferment abnormally in the gastrointestinal tract of dogs, and cause diarrhea and vomiting.
4. Keep the dog feed relatively stable, and prevent the feed from being single: the dog feed should be relatively stable, and can't be changed rapidly, because once the dog is familiar with a certain feed, the gastrointestinal digestive system will have a kind of adaptability. At this time, if a completely different feed is changed rapidly, it will easily lead to indigestion of the dog. Therefore, two or three kinds of feed formulas with similar properties can be selected, which can be changed but relatively stable.
There are many things to pay attention to when making dog food. Both the freshness of materials and the balance of nutrition need to be considered. Therefore, making dog food by ourselves is not a simple matter. If you can't make satisfactory dog food, you don't have to force yourself. Choosing professional dog food may make people feel more at ease.