Hi all,
to those of you that feed the barf diet, do you feed all offal raw aswell? I know this is probably a silly question, but just wondered if it was ok, do you chop up say hearts if you give them? how often do you feed offal aswell. Sorry for all the questions!!

i feed hearts whole. 

i feed offal a couple times a week. liver, kidney or heart usually.  all raw.

ok thankyou,
i am not completely feeding Barf at the moment but I do alot just wasn't sure about the offal thing so thanks!
Emz

Heart doesn't count as offal - it's a muscle meat, like steak. :)

Should have known that really as they say your heart is the strongest muscle :rolleyes: Just having one of those days with the easter term break

JG's right!
It does depend on which diet you prescribe to
A. the 20% Organ
         40% RMB
         40% Meat (muscle etc) 
         Diet
or..
B. the 75-80% RMB
         20-25% offal
         Diet

Emz: to be honest I think your best port of call as a novice is to find a good mentor for BARF from your own breed (found some links for you to get you started) With mine and Caileaq's breed (sibes) it really varies from working dogs to sedentary as to amounts and frequencies used. protien levels are very high for heart so be aware according to your dogs fitness etc...
They call it Species appropriate but sometimes especially for novices's I (personally) believe it should be breed appropriate too :D

http://www.auntjeni.com/barf.htm

http://fabertdobes.com

hopefully some of the Dobe peeps will be along soon but if not pop 'Doberman,BARF' in your search engine and you should get lots of breeders to have a look at and maybe cherrypick a few to email?
Good luck HTH
(Love to Blade too! x)

Thanks Husky!
thats given me some food for thought! pardon the pun :-)
I am not completely barfing (maybe barking lol ) but maybe oneday when I get enough knowledge etc!
Blade sends a big sloppy kiss :rolleyes: :-D

yeah, i know heart ain't really offal.....sorry for that..  i just usually lump it in with the 'offal' in terms of how much/often i feed it if you know what i mean? 

i would have though that 40% rmb is quite low?????  is this type of diet used in certain cases?? 

I started with 60% RMB's but found that my dog was constipated so reduced to 50% and extra veggies.

Emz I feed kidneys, lungs, tripe, heart and liver regularly, each about once a weekish.  I don't bother chopping them up though! :D