Make your own dog food?

Hey guys,

I have 2 active short haired border collies who are about 6 month old.
1 is in particular is very active, or maybe the right word is 'alert'. I have have working borders my whole life and understand their nature etc, but she doesn't seem to relax at all. Where as the boy will relax and be active on and off like a normal dog. My friend had heard food can make a difference with behaviour? I feed them roll meat, chicken and vege I think it is and then a scoop of Optimum puppy, which is food I have used to for all my dogs in the past.... but she has heard you should make a mix of rice,vegies and mince.... apparently some dogs can be funny with preservatives etc....

Does anyone on here know of a good recipe?? I thought I may as well give it a go to see how it goes and whether or not it makes her less stressed. It's funny because I am very careful with additives/preservatives with my daughter but have never considered it with my pups!!??

Ta
:)

I literally just buy cheap packs of mince or meat chunks (not lean) and fry it with a large tin of fish (any cheap type...so the dog gets her good oils) and cheapest bag of frozen veg I can find (no onion!) then stir it through cooked rice.

Note that it doesn't include anything crunchy to clean their teeth, so you can stir through some hard dog food or give them some bones or etc.

hey amanda, how much of that do you feed your dog??
We have a9 month old labradoodle and we have no idea if we are feeding him the right amount and i dont really like giving him the tin food

My Labradoodle Ebony is 9 years old and she gets 1 cup of the food with extra bikkies (for her teeth).

However she is rather podgy...but she is old and slow so it's more likely caused by a lack of activity rather than overfeeding.

Also, instead of rice you can use pasta, it's probably a little better for them instead of white rice (I usually use brown rice for Ebby)

Another way to do it is to stick all the ingredients in a slow cooker...that way you can just leave it to cook all day and all the goodness in the meat is retained...great if you cook it with a cheap, fatty, marrow filled hunk of meat!

I used to make our staffy food, with cheap mince, beef stock and a bag of frozen mixed vege, all boiled up, then add rice and turn off heat, leave to cook.
Or I would use left roast chicken boiled up, til all meat fell off, strained to check for bones, then add vegies and pasta/rice.
Easy!!

There's a great sticky at the top of this forum about raw feeding that you may be interested in. We feed mainly raw here and I find it great for our dog, and you can tweak the recipes/feeds to suit what you can find. If you're the main pooper scooper it makes for a much easier job too! Might be worth looking into and see if it suits you - I realise it's not for everyone or not for every dog!

adding cracked eggs is also brilliant for them
we used to by pet mince from the butcher(all the left over meaty/offal bits) mix in mixed veg rice then freeze it in batches..