Turducken Raw Dog Food

Yes.

If your puppy was weaned onto a raw food diet, you can generally transition straight to a 100% Big Dog diet. You can start them on any flavour from our core range (Beef, Chicken, Combo, Tasmanian Salmon, and Lamb.). Most people choose Chicken as it is highly palatable, especially when starting off on raw food for the first time. Alternatively, our Combo for Small Dogs diet may be most suitable for smaller pups. Our Small Dogs recipes are minced more finely and is portioned into smaller sizes, which can help reduce wastage in the transition phase or in smaller breeds.  Our recipes for small dogs that are suitable for puppies are Combo, Beef, and Sensitive Skin.

Please be aware that our food will last about 2 days in the fridge once defrosted.

If your pup was weaned onto cooked or processed food (canned food, dry food or cooked rolls) then we recommend to introduce our food slowly. A raw food diet is very different to a processed cooked diet and any sudden change of diet can create stomach upsets and gradually transitioning helps to minimise this.

Please follow these guidelines, whilst monitoring your puppy’s stools. Loose stools are OK during the transitioning period, but do make sure there is no persistent, watery stools.

Day 1-3: 20% New Diet 80% Old Diet

Day 4-6: 40% New Diet 60% Old Diet

Day 7-9: 60% New Diet 40% Old Diet

Day 10-12: 80% New Diet 20% Old Diet

Day 12+: 100% New Diet

Just keep an eye on their weight to make sure you’ve got the feeding amount right – you’ll find our guide on our boxes and on each product page. This is a great starting point for feeding. Keep in mind that feeding guides are general and optimal feeding amounts may vary with age, size, breed, and activity level. Increase or decrease the amount your pup consumes daily to ensure a healthy weight is maintained.

A Guide To Raw Feeding Your Puppy

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Big Dog has a product suitable for dogs of all shapes and sizes.

Our core range of diets are flavour based, mixed protein diets that provide all the macro and micronutrients your dog needs to be healthy and happy. These include protein, amino acids, healthy fats (including omega-3 fatty acids), moisture, antioxidants, probiotics, prebiotics, fibre, phytonutrients, active enzymes and essential vitamins and minerals. Mixed protein raw food diets, most closely represent an evolutionary diet. The predominant protein source in each of our core diet range represents the flavour of that product. Our core range consists of Beef, Chicken, Tasmanian Salmon, Lamb, and Combo (combo being a mix of all those proteins).

Our single protein, allergy range is formulated for dogs with food intolerances to certain meats, most commonly being beef and chicken. As a single protein diet, our Kanga and Turkey diets contain only muscle meat, offal and bone of these species. Additionally, Kanga is a low fat option that may be suitable for overweight dogs.

Our Scientific range has been formulated to address dogs with health conditions, assisting from the inside out. The Sensitive Skin diet contains an abundance of natural anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids designed to promote healthy skin, coat and a stronger immune system, as well as long term healing and reduction of potential future skin issues. Our Wellbeing Diet has been specifically formulated to support dogs with common chronic health conditions including arthritis, pancreatic issues, liver problems, renal conditions and some cancers. It is lower in fat with a mixture of traditional healing, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and health-promoting herbs.

Nourish Nutrition has two specialised recipes, Optimal Support and Joint+ Support. Nourish Nutrition is a targeted range of raw, functional diets designed to support dogs managing chronic health conditions, naturally. Backed by research and crafted with care, each recipe combines whole-food ingredients with functional nutrients to delivery gentle, effective support for joint, immune, and organ health. Trusted by pet parents and vets alike, Nourish Nutrition offers a holistic, science-informed approach to feeding our pets.

For more information on each product, see our products page for dogs.

Our patties are safe to use up to their expiry date as long as they have been correctly stored and frozen for the whole duration.

After thawing the patty, we recommend they be kept in a sealed, airtight container in the fridge, and used within 2 - 3 days. Discard any thawed product that no longer looks or smells fresh.

Raw food diets by definition are diets comprised of nothing but raw food. These can take many forms and the most popular of these is a BARF diet. BARF stands for biologically appropriate raw food or bones and raw food. This dietary model is based on the evolutionary diet animals would have eaten in the wild. Evolutionary raw diets are made up of fresh raw meat, offal, crushed meaty bones, vegetables, fruits and other healthy ingredients.

For more information on a Raw food diet for dogs – visit, “Evolution for dogs and a species appropriate diet”

Raw food diets are different for dogs and cats as they have different and unique dietary requirements.

All Big Dog raw diets are 100% natural, no synthetic vitamins and minerals, artificial chemicals, colours, flavours or preservatives are present. All Big Dog diets are raw and uncooked to best preserve the quality and nutritional value of the proteins.

Check out the Big Dog product range for dogs and cats here.

No. Our dog recipes contain crushed real bone. Not only does cooking change the nutritional value of the fresh healthy ingredients, cooking bone results in it becoming brittle, potentially splintering and should not be ingested by your dog in this state.

The exception to this is our Nourish Nutrition and cat recipes. While we recommend feeding them raw, it is safe to lightly cook these recipes, if necessary as they do not contain crushed bone.