Well I usually use dehydrated raw but I had purchased 20# of chicken thighs and quarters and my organ meat. I definitely did not want it to go bad so I picked up apples, oranges, squash, carrots and broccoli. I had already purchased a meat grinder, great knife, poultry scissors, etc. this was on the advice of Miss Raw.
So off I went to grind up everything, this is a really, really messy job. Broccoli is a pain to grind, don't ask me why but it is. OK then we go on to the meat, I thought I had a decent grinder but I had to stop many times to clean the blades of bone, I was getting a little frustrated, OK a little more then frustrated.
Now I'm on the down hill slide, not. Putting everything in containers is a royal pain the the butt.
I started with the total amount to feed 5 dogs per feeding per bag and decided that was not very practical for me. Then I thought why not make medallions so I made some 2oz ones for Ginger and Amelia, very slow process. I'm getting better as the night goes on, did I tell you I'm a slow learner. :) I brought out my 1/8 cup measure and it makes medallions pretty damn close to 1 oz so that's what were doing. I put as many possible on a pizza tray and freeze then into bags in the deep freeze. I average about 50 per bag, I'm still not done and this is the second day, did I tell you this is a real pain in the ass.
So I figure making 26#'s of raw will take this average bear around 14 hours. I really don't have an extra 14 hours so I will stick with the dehydrated unless I get some game meat this fall for free or really cheap.
Did I tell you MY DOGS LOVE ME FOR THIS.
It sounds like you had your blade in backward -- Susan, Cheryl and I have all done it at least one time. It takes me 2 hours (max) to grind and package 26-27# of raw food -- unless the blade is in backward. It's what I'm doing right now!
ReplyDeleteI was going to tell you the blade was in backwards, but Penni beat me to it. That will also fix the problem with the broccoli.
ReplyDeleteWhat I do is cut the chicken leg quarters into either 4 or 8 oz pieces(depending if I am feeding once or twice a day), then grind the rest and add it into the container. I use the Glad or related containers and make one container per dog. They freeze well and you have no leakage as they thaw.
Doing it this way (not grinding the chicken legs), it takes me no more than an hour to do 20 pounds of food. It is also pretty easy to clean up.
Can you all guess who Miss Raw is? Ok so the star blades go towards the churney thing?
ReplyDeleteYou should have a pretty picture in your instructions. Both Cheryl's and mine did. I must confess that I stayed with it two or three times before I was ready to throw in the towel. Then I figured out that the blade was wrong. It has been easier since then. I did 24 pounds of food tonight in an hour.
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