You have really honed this skill to a level of becoming a proper feline nutritionist!

You do such a good job of taking time on you videos. You don't rush and you give us the information about all the ingredients, why you use them, and how it will help the cats. It is so helpful. Thanks Have a good week.

That is top of the line homemade raw food. The cats are getting all the nutrients and you can tell by their shiny, sparkling fur coat.

Love this, this is the only video that I've heard about explaining benefits of each part etc. Thank you

Pumpkin puree is a good laxative/hairball remedy for cats.

Thank you for sharing your recipe with us, along with the reason for each of the supplements! Very educational, a detailed look into what cats eat and why. 😊💙💙

Stella just wanted to help, lol. Great video, I've always wondered what all went into making the raw food. 💜💙❤🐱❤😺❤🐱❤😺❤🐱❤💙💜

Loved watching this video! I bet it feels super rewarding for your babies ❤️❤️

This is very informative. Thank you.

All best to dear Grandma Feral for her loving contribution to the kittehs' next raw batch; and thanks for taking us through your process, dear Lady, step by step. (When I can get access to a grinder like yours, I plan to work up a small batch for Tarbelle; if & when I do, I will report back re her response to fresh, raw food.) Of course, in her royal capacity as Feralian Food Inspector, Queen Stella has to oversee the procedure...and the salmon oil's scent didn't fail to draw her attention. 😉🐈👑🐟

@pheline24

5 жыл бұрын

C. R. Barboni It would be very interesting to hear her response to the handmade raw cat food. Heavy duty meat grinder first Tarbelle, then you will be eating like Lady LF’s gang! 😊

@semperfi818

5 жыл бұрын

@@pheline24 Yes, then she won't ever again be able to accuse me of preferring her cousin Boo. 😉🐱👑🐱

EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!! Feeding this quality of food is fantastic, we do raw food and find it is worth the work. Great information, well presented, Thank You.

Wow, you are so dedicated!!!❤️😻😻😻😻😻

You are so good to your cats Lady F, it’s obvious how much they mean to you. You put me to shame, I am seriously going to up my game as regards caring for my fur kiddies.

Wow Your Cats Are TRULY Lucky To Be In Your Care!

Loved this you had me at pumpkin seeds lol 💗

Good job

If your happy, & the cats are happy that's all that matters!

Excellent...how do you determine your bone to meat ratio? Also what about other meats? Do you add pork or beef etc? Love how specific & orderly you are in explaining this LUCKY Ferals for sure!!

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

I’ve done research and found out that drumsticks and thighs have a good meat to bone ratio. Chicken wings are too high bone to meat and obviously boneless meats have no bones. So if I add some boneless breast meat, I’ll add some wings to compensate. I don’t feed the cats beef or pork. I prefer to feed meats that are closer to something they would eat in nature.

I wish you'd have a written version of the recipe either in the description or on your website (I looked for it over there, but all I got was a link to this video). It would have been very helpful, for sure, but thank you for the video, it's a great starting place!

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

I don't have a written recipe because I change it all the time. Every time that I make food for the cats, I vary the recipe. I don't think I've ever made it the same way twice. I'm glad the video was helpful.

@GiovanaSimmer

3 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals That's fine! I've googling and I put together a little "Raw Food Diet Recipe Book" on Word. Hopefully in a couple of months I'll switch my kittens to a raw diet. Thanks again!

One day I'll try to make food for my little family. One thing about that bentonite...please be very careful when opening, closing and stiring the dry bentonite. It's really awful stuff to breathe in...awful for your lungs...it remains suspended in the air for quite a bit. You're not exposing yourself to too much of it, but when handling it as an artist (its often used in pottery) I use a full respirator mask.

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, if handling large amounts of it, it’s best to do that. Small amounts like the amount in this bag is not an issue as far as breathing in dust. I’ve taken this type of clay internally many times. I use it topically very often as well. It’s great on bug bites. 👍😁

@helenhuizenga9998

4 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals Is the clay really necessary for the cats?

Do you have this recipe written down somewhere? I'd like to make this, but scale it back the first time. I already raw feed, but my recipes are closer to 5 lbs of meat/bone.

Great supplement suggestions I also prefer giving them their vitamins in whole food form whenever possible. What type of grinder do you use? I have a KitchenAid and the bones get caught up all the time even after breaking them up.

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

I have a Weston Butcher Series #12. For more info, here's the link to it on Amazon - amzn.to/36UH7Hs

YUM YUM

Look at you, what an awesome recipe!!! You could sell that under your Lucky Feral name. Chef 👨‍🍳 Lucky Feral!

where can I find how much of some of these supplements to give .?? Do you have some resources that you have researched and come up with the amount?

@LuckyFerals

4 жыл бұрын

i just googled raw cat food recipes and looked for the ones with whole food ingredients

Hello, do you have the recipe written down that you could share for easy access?

How long do u keep the food out and if they dont finish do u throw it out

If I'm using egg shellls as a calcium source instead of grinding up bones, what's the math in how much egg shells to add when making to food?

@xtheory

6 ай бұрын

One thing they will be missing from just using egg shells is the nutrients in the bone marrow.

Just wondering how long does these food batches last per say 1 cat ?

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

For one cat, eating 1.5 to 2 scoops per meal twice a day, this would last about 2 months.

@semperfi818

5 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals Which is to say that, given that this batch is destined to feed five very lucky kittehs, it will last purrhaps a week and a few days. Again, dear Lady, your dedication and careful preparation inspire us all.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:14 🍗 Use quality chicken with no antibiotics or artificial ingredients for homemade cat food. 01:50 🐟 Add salmon oil for omega-3s. 03:22 🌿 Include vitamin-rich supplements like kelp, B complex, and vitamin E. 04:58 💊 Detoxify and restore with natural calcium bentonite clay. 06:19 🌿 Incorporate alfalfa for B vitamins. 07:26 🍃 Enhance nutrition with amazing grass trio. 09:02 🥜 Add freeze-dried pumpkin seeds, raspberries, and blueberries. 10:52 ⚙️ Use a meat grinder with the largest disc to process chicken. 13:11 🍴 Scoop out the prepared cat food for portioning. Made with HARPA AI

Where do you get all your supplements for your babies from? I see some from Amazon…also how many one and a half scoop meals do you feed your babies per day?

@LuckyFerals

2 жыл бұрын

Whole Foods, Vitamin Shoppe, Amazon, etc. The cats eat two meals a day and have a snack at night.

What type of meat grinder do you recommend

Is that not too much calcium? Calcium from bones, from kelp and detox powder? How do you know it is in a balance with phosphorus?

Will you please provide a companion video of the raw cat food version for our furry felines with kidney issues (CKD)? I suspect by modifying your recipe to remove the chicken bones and adding, say.. egg shell powder for calcium AND perhaps removing the kelp should do it.. do you agree?

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t have a recipe for kidney issues. Protein is extremely bad for kidneys but unfortunately cats are obligate carnivores and require animal protein in their diets. I would put my cat on a good quality herbal tincture for kidney support. Check out nhvnaturalpetproducts.com they have good kidney formulas. I’ve given their products to my cats in the past.

Is it obligatory to use the amazing grass and the alfalfa? and if so are there some other stuff you can use in their place? I have searched and searched and can't find anything close to them in my area not even online

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

I put those in for an added boost of nutrition and to mimic the diet of the cats when they were living outside in nature. They would often eat grass and still love to eat fresh cat grass on a regular basis. Unfortunately, I don't grow it for them as much as they would like me to, so I supplement it with powdered grass in their food. You can substitute with B Complex capsules. I don't remember if I had included B Complex capsules in this video or not. I would include about 300 - 400 mg instead of the grasses. Here is the link to where I buy the Amazing Trio - amzn.to/3uS0ATZ And here is the link to Alfalfa - amzn.to/3kF2J0V Hope that helps. I change up the recipe slightly just about every time that I make raw food for the cats. This video merely documented what I was doing at the time.

How many meals a day do you feed the cats? Our 3 cats have had 24/7 available dry food/water bowls and I am considering switching to this method.

@vutomi9874

9 ай бұрын

Dry food will kill them. Never make it available for 24/7 my goodness….dry food contains a lots of carbs, permanently eating carbs will destroy organs that produces hormones like pancreas. I learned it in hard way, I hope you make a change in your cats diet and spare from a lots pain, fear and eventually death.

Please I need a mix for one cat a step by step I’m in desperate need to know

How much time does it take for the whole process?

@vk311z8

5 жыл бұрын

i would imagine it just takes the same time as preparing any home cook meal like speghetti meatballs. Just like you normally would cook for your family it normally takes 2 hours to cook a home cook meal / But the good thing is you jus have to prepare this once a week and freeze it or depending on how many cats you have feed

@semperfi818

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure that the Lady has already found ways to optimize the procedure, say, by storing most dry, canned or bottled ingredients together near the commonly-used tools (grinder, bullet blender, aluminum pans & trays, bowls, spatulas, etc.). Once the ingredients have been acquired, the procedure as documented appears to flow easily and logically; exclusive of clean-up (which might take some time with the grinder, I'd wager), the process appears to take maybe a couple of hours or so.

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

On average about an hour and a half.

Very interesting! Do you use some kind of raw food calculator, to be exactly sure to what numbers of nutritional values all those ingredients sum up to? Some of the ingredients may deliver the same nutrients or minerals as others, and I always wonder, how to be sure not to oversupplement anything. Even if the excess of a certain supplement/nutrient gets peed out, it 'd still stress out the kidneys or the liver to a certain amount, right? Also: How do you now, if the calcium/phosphorus rate is correct?

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

I haven't used a calculator. Based the quantities off of research into recipes that other people are using or that are suggested by vets etc. I agree with not wanting to add too many supplements.

Do you worry about too much bone or skin content in your recipe? When you change to rabbit or pork what fats or bone amounts do you use?

@LuckyFerals

Жыл бұрын

There is a chart online for bone content and percentages. Skin content can vary. I don’t feed my cats only homemade raw food so they are getting a variety of nutrition. They also eat some commercial raw food, a little canned food, and a little bit of dry food.

What no one asks is, what if electricity goes out or food shortage, how to continue feeding raw cat diet in case of emergency?

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

I have a 2000w generator - kzread.info/dash/bejne/gq181JWNo7PRYZs.html Also several smaller solar power stations. Here is one of them - kzread.info/dash/bejne/qqVo06yze9DHhM4.html If there is a food shortage, canned food or dry food can be fed instead.

We feed a large colony and our concern is leaving the food and it’s not finished. Is that safe for them still? The price of tin food has skyrocketed so we’re trying to come up with alternatives to feed them.

@LuckyFerals

2 жыл бұрын

When my cats were feral cats living outside, they would sometimes kill prey and hide it or bury it to eat a day or two later. They never got sick from that. If the food goes bad, they won’t eat it. Cats are very smart. Also, as obligate carnivores, they have very different digestive systems than humans.

Did you grind all of the bones with the chicken pieces you showed?

@LuckyFerals

2 жыл бұрын

yes

How much do you think this all costs you per month? I have 2 cats and want to switch over to making homemade raw pet food. I am trying to figure out about how much it would cost me.

@katwilliams2950

2 жыл бұрын

I had the same question and you inspired me to try to calculate it. I'm approximating that it's around 200-400 to buy everything at once depending on when and prices where you live. But a lot of the items will be used for a long time. So maybe 30-50 per batch. Since you have 2 cats it'll be 1 month with of food feeding 1½-2 scoops twice a day. (She said in another post for 1 cat it would last 2 months). So about 1.70 per day for 2 cats if it cost you $50 to make that batch.... but I think you don't really have to do it exactly like they did it. If you grow your own stuff, catch sales, or exclude some things/swap out certain things by using fresh, or bulk stuff that you process your self (like the alfalfa for example) especially if you live in a more remote or high cost of living area it can be more reasonable..... I wish they would have broke down prices and given product sizes so we could approximate how much it would cost better. I hope this helps some...

@LuckyFerals

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I don't know how much it costs me per month because the prices vary every month. I try to buy the poultry/meat when it's on sale or when I see a good deal. I also vary the ingredients each month - sometimes all chicken, sometimes I add turkey, sometimes rabbit, etc. What I do know is that it costs me half of what I would be paying if I was buying commercially made raw food for the cats at $22 - $42 for a 3 pound bag which comes out to be around $7-$14 a pound. It also gives me the convenience and freedom of not having to rely on local store inventory since I'm now feeding 5 cats and none of the stores carry the amount of raw food that I need, so It saves me all of the time that I used to run around from store to store trying to buy raw food. Hope that helps. :)

@LuckyFerals

2 жыл бұрын

@kat williams Hi, There's no way to give price breakdowns since prices vary all of the time. Also, I think I mentioned in this video that I change up the recipe every time that I make food for the cats. So the ingredients are varying also. This video was posted about 2.5 years ago so prices have certainly changed since then. Like you said, catching sales helps, growing some of your own ingredients helps, buying in bulk helps. All costs are variable. The biggest expense is the meat grinder.

I have read that feeding liver daily is bad because it can cause vitamin A toxicity? So is it ok to include it in the raw food recipe?

@machiel5888

3 жыл бұрын

You have to use other organ meats. A bit of liver is good and you need the vitamin A but you should try to get kidney or spleen from another animal or the same animal in a pinch.

This is for adult cats only? Can/should you use this recipe for kittens ?

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

I've never fed this to kittens so I don't really know if it would need to be adjusted for them. I would probably use a finer grinding plate on the meat grinder. I change up the recipe every time that I make it for my cats.

Why all the additives,They don't get them in the wild.

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

in the wild, cats eat entire small animals including all internal organs, full digestive tract and the contents of the digestive tract, all fur, some feathers, etc. they also eat grass and some plant matter. making food out of only muscle meat, bones, and organ meat is not truly a complete diet.

How many cats does she have and how long does this all last ?

@LuckyFerals

2 жыл бұрын

If you are referring to me, the person who filmed and posted the video, the food was feeding 4 cats and it lasted about a month.

I live in India. I have no access to raw meat which can be directly consumed. So I am planning to either cook or par- cook it in a pressure cooker before feeding my cat. My question is what can I do to compensate for the nutrient loss? Is there anything I can add to the recipe to make up for it?

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

Usually a portion of the taurine is lost from the meat when cooked. Otherwise, the difference between raw and cooked meat is that raw meat is more efficiently digested, absorbed, and eliminated. Not so much about the nutrients. Hope that helps. 👍

@sita4488

5 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals ok, Thank you so much!

All commercial poultry is antibiotic free.

If I was a cat I'd want you to be my master.

@michaelachristine8495

3 жыл бұрын

You must be confused. Cat's don't have masters. This lady is working for her masters.

@michaelachristine8495

3 жыл бұрын

cats*

Do you count the calories in this?

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

No. I haven't found a calorie counter that includes bones. The estimate is about 100 calories per meal for the cats based on what they get fed. Hydrox gets about twice that per meal since he's outside and burns more calories.

Great video. If I had a food grinder I'd try making some for Marty. Come to think of it my neighbor might have one I should ask her. She has everything you can think of.

@semperfi818

5 жыл бұрын

If you're on friendly terms with your neighbor, why not ask to borrow her meat grinder? If she has any kittehs, you might make enough to give her some by way of thanks, or pawsibly create something beautiful for her (like that fantastic apron you made for the Lady and for Grandma Feral, say) in return. If you do make a batch, let us know how your charming boy Marty likes it (and hug him for me, of course).

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

I’d like to eventually do another video on how to make food without a grinder.

@semperfi818

5 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals That would be a great benefit to those of us who cannot afford to invest in a meat grinder, dear Lady; I look forward to that future video.

@zoalangford7016

5 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals That would be awesome. I'll be watching for it but no hurry. I know you're a busy lady.

@allisonisis

11 ай бұрын

just found this channel and this video is amazing. I'm wondering if there is a video for those without a grinder ❤️

I read some of your comments and it's got me thinking. Maybe I shouldn't even ask...I don't know but I going to. I would like to ask about ...species appropriate diet like maybe whole mice fur especially everything ground as well as other appropriate animals chick's,rabbits yes the whole animal fur head all of the Animal. Where would I get them shipped to me frozen?

@LuckyFerals

Жыл бұрын

I haven’t found ground species appropriate prey. If you find it online let me know. I’ve seen whole prey, but I can’t stomach that.

@susanbedard2295

Жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals I'm thinking of trying to find a place or places where they rehabilitate birds of Prey or other meat eating animals are. Where they feed a complete whole animal. Where zoo's get their frozen carcasses from. Just a thought

Are those vitamins for human ?

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

yes.

Can you cook this as well ?

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

Do cats living in nature cook their food?

@spicychickenstew

3 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals my cat tends to throw up when eating raw food, so my vet recommended cooked.

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

What kind of raw food have you tried? Boo throws up if I give him raw lamb. Splash throw up on raw pork. So I've learned to avoid both of those meats. They do great on chicken, duck, turkey, rabbit, quail, etc.

@spicychickenstew

3 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals oh wow, maybe ill try experimenting more. I've tried chicken, beef, pork, fresh tuna and salmon. Thanks for the input ! :)

@consueloenlatierra6680

2 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals they dont but until the transition to raw food happens in picky eaters cats sometimes is necesary to cook the food until they finally accept raw :(

Jonzee4drone. Getting a male Russian blue born on 13:10:2019 I have made up your beef and chicken mix with all the supplements with i put 180 grams snap lock bags M question is do i feed him 45grams a meal 180 last 2 days morning and night my some biscuits 3 am in the automotive feeder Are doing it right. Jonzee4drone I’m in love w your channel

@LuckyFerals

4 жыл бұрын

I never feed my cats beef. You must be confusing me with someone else.

Bentonite clay is literally kitty litter. You can ditch the kelp barley grass wheat grass and alfalfa. Cats are obligate carnivores. They do not eat vegetables at all. The only reason to give cats pumpkin puree is to stop them from regurgitating hairballs.

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

Cats living in nature eat plants and grasses. Anyone who has spent any time actually observing cats living in the wild knows that. It’s not a large percentage of their diet but it is an important supplement.

Shopping at wholesale like sams club or Costco is way cheaper I make raw for 3 of my hairless cats and I get all my theighs at sams for 99 cents a pound and then the organs from the Asian grocery store

@LuckyFerals

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could find organic chicken at my local Costco for that price. I’ve been buying the organ meats at Hmart.

@karakidder1545

2 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals yeah 99cents is the cheapest I’ve seen. Even Walmart is higher than sams. But where I live they put a limit you can only buy 2 or 12 of them. So I bought 12 I made 89 pounds of food

@LuckyFerals

2 жыл бұрын

Wow. You must have a very big freezer!

@karakidder1545

2 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyFerals ha I don’t at all it’s the only thing that’s in my freezer it’s literally stacked top to bottom… I need to get a deep freezer

Hi lucky ferals family how are you ? First.

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

👍😁

That is alot of work.

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

Not really.

@semperfi818

5 жыл бұрын

Purrhaps, but it's more than worth it for the well-being of the kittehs.

@joplindrivers4949

4 жыл бұрын

Doug Bloetscher agreed. I work too much for this recipe. But there are smaller recipes with just meat bones and supplements, that take about an hour to make a big bowl of 6lbs.

@raineybaby621

3 жыл бұрын

If you aren’t willing to take an hour out of your day for the well being of your animal you shouldn’t have one. It’s one thing to not be able to afford a higher quaility diet but it’s another thing to just be flat out lazy.

How can you have Alfalfa without Buckwheat? Wow, with all that pumpkin, the guys are going to be jumping all over each other.

@semperfi818

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm, Alfalfa, Buckwheat...well, this batch is going to feed "Our Gang" of extraordinary kittehs, I suppose, if you were going there. 😉🐱🐈👑😺😸🐱🍲 As for buckwheat, Splash did confess to me a craving for _soba_ recently -- and who knew that Splashie was a Nipponophile? (Maybe I should have expected his Crunchyroll queue to be filled with episodes of _My Roommate Is A Cat,_ at that...😉😺🗻) As for the pumpkin content causing the kittehs to jump all over each other, I confess that I draw a blank -- but they will surely not be hurting for Vitamin A, sure.

Cats do not eat the stomach contents of their prey unless it's very small like a mouse.

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

Yes they do. I have seen these cats consume entire birds from beak to tail including the entire contents of the digestive tract. Please do not spread misinformation.

@mairwaugus5203

3 жыл бұрын

Laughing, totally laughing. Please tell my wild/stray cats that. Rabbit, ground squirrel, rodents..Yah they do it the "innards"

Cats are carnivores. They should only eat meat. It's better to just let them eat a chicken wing or leg. Or a small whole fish. Feeding them a more natural diet. Not over processed "cat food".

@LuckyFerals

3 жыл бұрын

Feeding a cat a chicken wing or a leg does NOT provide complete nutrition for a cat. In nature, cats eat entire animals from nose to tail including fur or feathers, brain, organs, digestive tract, bones, etc. They also consume vegetable matter in the form of grasses and plant leaves as well as any vegetable matter in the digestive tract of their prey. A complete raw cat food that provides as much nutrition as whole raw prey is preferable.

You are wasting money on vegetable crap that will probably end up giving your cat kidney stones.

@LuckyFerals

5 жыл бұрын

Vegetable matter never causes kidney stones because it is alkaline. Acids are what cause kidney stones.