Meat grinders
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Meat grinders
OH has been thinking about making his own cat food.
We spend about £120 a month on special diet meat and biscuits, but the cats are rejecting it. They often vomit too. Checked out with vet and they are healthy cats so it's the food they don't like.
Consulting the oracle, aka t'internet, you can make cat food from ground up chicken thighs but you must add powdered taurine. He wants to try this but we haven't got a meat grinder. and the ones I can see on the internet grind meat but not bones (and ground bones are an important part of the diet plan).
So, my question is does anyone have a meat grinder that grinds bones?
We spend about £120 a month on special diet meat and biscuits, but the cats are rejecting it. They often vomit too. Checked out with vet and they are healthy cats so it's the food they don't like.
Consulting the oracle, aka t'internet, you can make cat food from ground up chicken thighs but you must add powdered taurine. He wants to try this but we haven't got a meat grinder. and the ones I can see on the internet grind meat but not bones (and ground bones are an important part of the diet plan).
So, my question is does anyone have a meat grinder that grinds bones?
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Re: Meat grinders
Never tried grinding chicken bones but I found this fairly old review of grinders suitable for the purpose
https://www.petfeedertips.com/best-meat ... e-grinder/
It looks as if most heavy duty grinders, of the type used by butchers and chefs for making sausages might work, though you'd probably have to check with the manufacturer
https://www.petfeedertips.com/best-meat ... e-grinder/
It looks as if most heavy duty grinders, of the type used by butchers and chefs for making sausages might work, though you'd probably have to check with the manufacturer
Re: Meat grinders
wouldn't an old fashioned 'spong' be ok? - there are plenty going cheap on marketplace and bay.
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Re: Meat grinders
Is it easier to buy the ground bone?
Then if the home made food works, buy the grinder.
Then if the home made food works, buy the grinder.
Re: Meat grinders
Where would we get ground bone though? The only bone meal I know about is that J.Arthur Bowers stuff for gardening, and it's not food grade.
Spong will grind meat nicely but we can't risk splinters so a proper meat/bone grinder will be obtained. <sigh>
Spong will grind meat nicely but we can't risk splinters so a proper meat/bone grinder will be obtained. <sigh>
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Re: Meat grinders
Good question!
I can certainly see it when I google "ground bone for cats".
Locally, we have a "purrfect petcare" shop.
I'm not sure if Pets at Home would have it. The stores are everywhere tho.
And my not being a nutrition savvy cat person, I don't know if human grade is what you'd require. I can see human bone meal supplements.
That might be a wild goose chase for what you're asking.
I can certainly see it when I google "ground bone for cats".
Locally, we have a "purrfect petcare" shop.
I'm not sure if Pets at Home would have it. The stores are everywhere tho.
And my not being a nutrition savvy cat person, I don't know if human grade is what you'd require. I can see human bone meal supplements.
That might be a wild goose chase for what you're asking.
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Re: Meat grinders
Good points Gill
I did a bit of Googling myself, and it seems that in the UK there's only one widely available brand of bone meal for supplementary feeding of cats, it's AniForte
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AniForte-Mea ... 3679107641
I did find a good review article about feeding bone meal, but it's American so brands are irrelevant
It did remind me (bear with me, it's over 40 years since I studied this in depth) that for cats (and ferrets) the calcium to phosphate ratio in the diet is critical, if it's wrong that's when you get the bladder and kidney problems to which cats are prone.
https://petcareadvisors.com/cats/bone-m ... upplement/
I did a bit of Googling myself, and it seems that in the UK there's only one widely available brand of bone meal for supplementary feeding of cats, it's AniForte
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AniForte-Mea ... 3679107641
I did find a good review article about feeding bone meal, but it's American so brands are irrelevant
It did remind me (bear with me, it's over 40 years since I studied this in depth) that for cats (and ferrets) the calcium to phosphate ratio in the diet is critical, if it's wrong that's when you get the bladder and kidney problems to which cats are prone.
https://petcareadvisors.com/cats/bone-m ... upplement/
Re: Meat grinders
scullion wrote:wouldn't an old fashioned 'spong' be ok? - there are plenty going cheap on marketplace and bay.
If you get a German one it comes with an attachment so you can make bisccuits for Christmas ....
Re: Meat grinders
OH made a lemon drizzle cake yesterday and has saved the eggshells. He's baking them now with filleted chicken thighs, and will pop the lot in our Magimix as an experiment for the cats dinner. Bless.
Re: Meat grinders
I had a hedgehog over winter many moons ago and I would cook a whole chicken with the same weight in carrots, then take out all the bones, mixe the chicken meat and skin with the carrots and some of the liquid plus some dog vegetable flakes and then blitzed the whole lot ... Ludmilla ate well that winter ...
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