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During the epidemic period, many children had a food crisis. In fact, in ordinary life, dog food and cat food may not be connected, because the purchase is not timely or other logistics accidents, parents can choose homemade staple food to replace or connect dog food or cat food.

Self-made staple food should be balanced.

Homemade at home needs to pay attention to balanced ingredients, fresh ingredients and rich variety. Match principle reference: meat more than 70% (including animal viscera 5%, eggs 5%), vegetables and fruits 30% (grain 10%), meat is best with more than two kinds, such as chicken + fish, chicken + beef.

Choose the ingredients with nutrition

Meat: source of protein.

Chicken, fish (without thorns), beef, pork (tenderloin), mutton, duck.

Animal viscera: provide trace elements, including iron, vitamin A, etc.

Beef liver (preferred), beef heart, beef spleen, pork liver, chicken heart, duck heart, chicken liver.

Vegetables and fruits: provide vitamins and carbohydrates.

Carrot, broccoli, pumpkin, purple potato, apple, banana.

Cereal: a source of carbohydrates.

Wheat, oats, quinoa, corn, soybeans, chickpeas, peas

Eggs: eggs, pigeon eggs, duck eggs

Dairy products: cheese, yogurt, goat milk powder, etc.

Fats: Provide fats, fish oil, chicken oil (animal oil), olive oil, flaxseed oil.

Salt Addition: 0.5% Kosher

Salt Eggshell: Provides calcium. Natural calcium powder

can be made (eggshells are washed and dried, crisped in the microwave oven, and then powdered with a cooking device).

Seaweed powder: vitamins and iodine

Self-made equipment: cooking machine (blender, meat grinder), steamer, oven, microwave oven, etc.

Homemade food storage: It is recommended that the homemade food should be fed for 3-4 days at a time. The homemade food should be sealed and refrigerated with plastic wrap or plastic bags. The storage time should not exceed one week.

Look at the recipe and learn it.

There is no perfect recipe for homemade, but as a reference, the shoveling officer can also think about how to match it.

Homemade staple food with rich collocation

Protein supply: chicken breast, beef, eggs

Fat: Salmon accessories (skin, fish), or choose fish oil instead of

vitamins and carbohydrates: chickpeas, purple potatoes, pumpkin, broccoli, carrots

with goat milk powder (containing milk calcium, vitamins) and cheese (containing calcium, protein, fat, vitamins). Flour increases the adhesion of ingredients.

Note: Seaweed powder and eggshell powder can also be added.

Preparation method

1. Meat ingredients are crushed with a cooking machine (blender, meat grinder).

2. Mix the ingredients, put them into a mold (you can also make them into balls and cakes separately for later storage), and add cheese.

3. Place in oven or steamer (15-20 minutes).

4. Self-made food fresh-keeping bags or fresh-keeping films that can not be eaten are sealed and packed separately, and refrigerated for 3-4 days.

Diversified choices of self-made complementary food

When the dog food is insufficient, it can also be supplemented with homemade complementary food. Complementary food can be more diversified, but we should also pay attention to the amount of feeding. Choose a single meat (fish, shrimp) with vegetables.

The following reference: Chicken meatballs

Chicken breast (50%) + broccoli (20%) + carrots (30%), flour and eggs can also be added.

The production method is also very simple, use the cooking machine to crush the ingredients, then knead them into cakes or balls, and steam them for about 10 minutes. You can add food after your dog eats the dog food as a reward to avoid your dog's picky eating.

Special period of self-made as an emergency measure, inexperienced shoveling officer also need to have the confidence to try oh, but also pay attention to the dog's stool after eating, if there is soft stool or slight diarrhea can be fed probiotics conditioning. Long-term homemade staple food also requires rigorous nutrition, animal nutrition knowledge, shoveling officer needs to spend time and energy to learn oh. Dogs who eat homemade food for a long time need extra calcium supplements (lactose-calcium, calcium carbonate) because of the high phosphorus content and calcium deficiency in meat.

Finally, I would like to thank Chen Yun, the pet nutritionist of Xiaoxianliang brand (the second-level technician of national pet nutrition), for reviewing the content.