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u/SunRaven01 ยท 14 pointsr/dogs

You're already doing frakenprey. ;) I think you meant to say whole prey, and no, I don't do that either.

The easiest thing you could do is stop grinding yourself and buy pre-mades; if you're on the east coast look into www.topqualitydogfood.com and see if you can make one of their distribution points each month. That gets pricy, though, which is why I do home prep.

Your best bang for your buck is to upgrade away from that Tasin, like I said in your other thread. A #12 or a #22 grinder is going to cut your grinding time by so much it's not even funny. You'll cry when you do your first grind because you wasted so much time with the Tasin (which I also started off with). They also have a larger throat than the Tasin, so you can drop in a whole leg quarter with no trimming. Necks are a friggen breeze. Fresh chicken backs squeeze in, but they fit.

I have four dogs, three Rhodesian Ridgebacks and one Canaan Dog. They vary from 13-38 ounces per day, per dog, so I'm going through about 250 pounds of food per month. I'm keenly interested in minimizing the amount of time I have to spend on food prep and storage. I thaw ground muscle meat (which comes in chubs like the ones your ground rabbit comes in) in a dish in my fridge. Raw meaty bones are ground straight into freezer tubs, and those get thawed in the fridge as well. Whole chunks of muscle meat get slapped on a cutting board and hacked to size before being thrown into a bowl.

I buy my RMBs by the case, rotating through chicken backs, chicken leg quarters, chicken thighs, duck necks, duck frames, pork neck bones, etc. Everything but the neck bones can go through the grinder. Don't bother making an all-in-one mix. Grind the RMBs (or feed in whole form if you're comfortable doing that), and bam, done. Scoop directly from tub to bowl.

Next, stop making the supplement slurry and just add supplements straight to the bowl. Personally I'd stop all that work you're doing with the capsules and the this and the that, and replace it with a daily vitamin blend and some fish oil caplets chucked straight into the bowl with muscle meat and organs. You can drop the taurine supplement because chicken, beef, and organ meats are naturally high in taurine already, but if you're really concerned, replace some of that beef trim with some straight beef heart and boom, you're covered. You don't need a glandular supplement (seriously, wat?). Swapping to a daily vitamin blend will simplify this for you greatly because it's a palatable powder that gets sprinkled on (or stirred into) the food.

Same deal with eggs: no need to grind up 8 dozen eggs at a time, just chuck one into a bowl every day. Done. (Shell or no shell is your choice; I feed RMBs so I don't need the extra calcium.)

Muscle meat: Learn to love meat chunks. I buy whole beef heart by the 60-pound case. Slap one of those on a cutting board, cut off big hunks, throw it into a bowl, and that will cover breakfast for the dogs for two days. Turkey hearts can be chucked whole into a bowl. Ground beef doesn't need more grinding. Pork hearts can be chucked whole into a bowl. Pork tenderloins can be sliced into hunks. Whatever I'm feeding as an RMB, I don't use as muscle meat (in other words, if I'm giving chicken backs as an RMB, all my other meats are anything BUT chicken), and I hit at least four different animals through a month (pork, chicken, turkey, duck, beef, venison when it's available, lamb are my mainstays).

My mornings I throw four bowls on the counter, chuck in some muscle meat, scoop some ground organs, drop in fish oil caplets, sprinkle on some vitamin powder, throw in an egg and a scoop of plain yogurt, and then it's off to the dogs. Start to finish takes me 2 or three minutes to weigh out everyone's bowl and then plunk it down in front of them. My evenings are even faster because it's just ground RMB scooped into a bowl.

Finally, I'd do some reading: https://www.amazon.com/Raw-Natural-Nutrition-Dogs-Revised-ebook/dp/B00Q1HZM6I/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Extensively sourced and footnoted (extensively), includes information for home cooking for people who are uncomfortable with raw.