The following is a modified recipe from homemadedogfood.com. I’ve been preparing it myself for years.
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Ingredients & supplies: 10 pounds chicken thighs, 18 eggs, 5 cups white rice (makes 10 cups), 8 ounces salmon oil, 3 cups Dinovite powder (dinovite.com), 2 all-purpose cooking pans, 10 1-gallon freezer bags.
Instructions: Cook the chicken at 425 degrees (sealed tightly with tin foil) and cook for an hour and a half. Cook the rice, and hard-boil the eggs.
Remove the cooked chicken, and leave the drippings in the pan.
Mix 4 ounces of salmon oil into each pan with 1½ cups of Dinovite powder per pan. When well-blended, mix 5 cups of rice into each pan.
In a food processor, pulverize the eggs (do not remove the shells) and blend into the mixture with your hands (nine in each pan).
Remove as much chicken as you can from the bones and pulverize in a food processor. Mix 5 pounds into each pan with your hands.
Distribute the food evenly into 10 freezer bags. Flatten and seal, and place in the freezer.
Serving size depends on the weight of your dog. Plan on ¼ cup of food twice a day for each 10-15 pounds of body weight.
