Ive been feeding my 7.4 kg bitch 70g of a good quality complete meal per day 30g morning and 40g evening meal. Feeding like this is keeping her weight stable but she's allways hungry.
Ive been looking in to changing to raw feeding for a month or so now but with two ch shows coming up im worried about her weight.
My question is, How much raw beef or tripe would be the equivalent 70g complete?
Im trying to get it almost right first meal rather than guessing and she starts looking to heavy.

I use to train racing greyhounds many years ago and always fed raw so I no how well/happy dogs can look when feeding them a raw diet.

Can't answer about weight of the food but I find raw puts the weight on a lot easier so therefore my dogs get only half as much of raw as they do/did of complete. Same with my cats, in fact all the cats have gained weight very nicely since we ditched complete foods and went raw only.

Thanks Goldmali it may be best to stay with the complete meal till the middle of January.

Well my girls get 200g of a good complete, and need 14 oz to a pound of meat if given instead.  So yours would need about 5oz of meat compared to 70g of dry.

In my experience if your feeding minced meats the raw will disappear out the bowl twice as fast as the kibble.  so if your looking to fill her up you might need to bulk meals out with low cal veg.

personally I would start on the basis of feeding 2.5% of the weight of the dog and then alter from there as and when you need to

I feed raw and would also suggest you start with 2 to 2.5 per cent of raw meat and bones of the dogs current body weight if he is at the right weight now. If not same percentage but of the weight you want your dog to be.   All types of meats and fish should be given including offal which includes heart and tripe

My estimate of 5oz would be 2% of bodyweight.

Have a look at 'Natural Instinct' website. it's excellent raw food already prepared with veg and they have a section where they tell you how much the dog needs according to his/her weight - or at least they used to. It's also not overly expensive and my dogs love it.

http://dogsdinner2.webs.com/quickstartguide.htm this contains excellent information to start you off.

Def a great Site Furriefriends gave- I love that site- awesome help :-)

Check out the Raw calculator http://www.raw4dogs.com/calculate.htm

If they have never fed raw and planning on switching now is there not a chance of the dog going threw a detox?
I was lucky non of mine did detox and think it had to do with the high quality food I was feeding- mostly dehydrated food.

I personally wouldn't get any with veggies in it- just the meat variety- cause well you can just add your own veggies if
you feel your dog should have them. I give mine veggies & fruit for treats which they love :-) I have frozen veggies & fruit
in my freezer- also great for stuffing kongs.