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Questions for Webmaster
last updated 01/04/2004
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East Tennessee & the net
Feeding dogs Raw/BARF can either be outrageously expensive or cheaper than
super premium kibble -- depending on your sources.
If I buy it, it's a bargain or it's on sale. I want to give my dogs the best
possible food. But reality is "The Budget" and I need to
find regular sources that are bargains. Note: I shop
the bargain bins and reduced baskets and can often find prices lower than these,
or find meaty chicken backs half the cost of chicken quarters, so that's what we
feed that week.
Whole Fresh or Frozen Animals
 | Rabbit, Rocky Top Rabbitry, Rogersville in Upper East TN (also ships), glsmith@planetc.com
$1.10/lb 4-5lb bunnies, killed no processing |
| Chicken (fryers), .69/lb Food City |
| Fish
 | Tilapia $1.78/lb Wal-Mart |
| Whiting $1.50/lb Russell's Food Town |
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Raw Meaty Bones (RMB)
| Beef knuckles & Ribs, H&R Custom Meats, Crossville, TN, .10/lb |
| Chicken
| Frames (backs/ribs/necks) McKenry's Knoxville, TN, .25/lb |
| Wings, McKenry's Knoxville, TN, .66/lb |
| Quarters, UGO, Harriman, TN, .19/lb sales (.33/lb McHenry's, .37/lb
Wal-Mart) |
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| Pork necks, Russell's Food Town, Rockwood, TN, .69/lb |
| Rabbit (skinned or whole ground), Rocky Top Rabbitry, Rogersville, (Upper East)
TN, glsmith@planetc.com
$1.75-2.00/lb |
| Turkey
| wings, Nashville Meats, .69/lb |
| necks, wings, drums, .99/lb, Russell's Food Town, Rockwood, TN |
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Muscle Meat
| Beef
| Beef Heart $1/lb Wal-Mart |
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| Fish
| Jack Mackerel, canned, Wal-Mart, .67/can, |
| Salmon, canned, watch for .99/can sales |
| Sardines, canned, watch for .79/can sales |
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| Lamb
| whole leg, sliced free, Bi-Lo, $4/lb ($2/lb after Easter) |
| shanks $3/lb Wal-Mart |
| ground, $4/lb Wal-Mart (watch for Use-Next-Day Sales for $2.87/lb) |
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Organ Meat/Offal
| Chicken Liver, McKenry's Knoxville, TN, .59/lb |
| Beef
| Liver $1/lb, Russell's Food Town Rockwood, TN |
| Kidney, Wal-Mart Crossville, TN, .53/lb |
| Green Tripe
 | Pamela Newman AR/AL/TN/KY plnkdh@aol.com
$6.25/5lb |
| Barfworld.com $2/1lb |
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| Pork
| Liver .69/lb Food City, Oak Ridge, TN |
| Brains, Piggly Wiggly, Spring City, TN, $1.59/lb |
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Oils
| Norwegian Cod Liver Oil, www.KVvet.com,
$7.99/32 oz |
| Salmon Oil liquid, Club Canine (CANADA) with pump 2500ml/$50 Can www.clubcanine.net |
| Arctic Vigor Marine Oil -- the US won't let us import it, but if you can get a
source GET IT. |
Extras/Supplements
| Kelp
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| Alfalfa meal, farm stores, $7/50lb |
| Menhaden Fish Meal, Pennine Farm Stores,. Spring City $20.50/50lbs |
| Eggs, Grade A Large, Wal-Mart $2/2.5 dozen |
| Yogurt, plain, Wal-Mart $2/32 oz |
| Cottage Cheese, Wal-Mart $1.78/24 oz |
| Raspberry Seed Powder/Tablets (aleic acid) docvite@aol.com |
| Vit E powder www.kvvet.com
| Gen-E-Vite 300 IU/scoop, 2.75oz |
| /4m supply $7.99 |
| Gen-E-Vite 300 IU/scoop 1lb $36.95 |
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| Vit E pump liquid www.sheepfeed.com/survive.html
1 pint $17.50 |
Multi-source supplements - some do, some don't. I did with kibble
(g). I still do 1x/week looking for a source for Zinc, usually Zinpro.
| Source (Plus For Dogs (Seaweed meals, brewer's yeast, garlic, Vit E, Zinc,
Beef Flavor) www.kvvet.com 5 lbs,
$22.95 |
| Nupro (liver, kelp, bee pollen, yeast, flax, borage, lecithin, garlic,
Lactobacilla Acidophilus) www.kvvet.com 5
lbs $29.95 |
| The Missing Link (Flax Seed, Blackstrap Molasses, Rice Bran, Primary Dried
Yeast, Freeze Dried Beef Liver, Sunflower Seed, Dehydrated Alfalfa, Dried
Carrot, Freeze Dried Beef Bone Meal, Freeze Dried Cod Fish Protein
Concentrate, Freeze Dried Oyster, Spirulina, Sprouted Green Barley, Dried
Kelp, Lecithin, Garlic, Yucca Schidigera Extract, and Nettle) www.kvvet.com
5 lbs $38.95 |
| Zinpro (Brewer's Yeast, garlic, beef digest, zinc, Vitamin E, biotin) 5.5 lbs for $29.95 |
| The Edge (Brewer's dried yeast, brewer's dried grain, dried whey, cane
molasses, powdered garlic, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin
E supplement, ascorbic acid) 5 lbs $12.99 |
Exotic Protein Sources
Besides poultry (chicken, turkey, & duck) pork, beef (& buffalo),
rabbit, and lamb, it's had to get other protein sources. There are a few
options:
| Local Slaughterhouses - venison, lamb (during Fall 4-H kills), sometimes
goat |
| A relative who hunts |
| Feed store message boards for goat, lamb, etc. |
I think I got it, so
where can I learn more..?
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