Balance Mix

• Green tripe. Unbleached stomach lining, a long-time favourite with raw feeders.
• Liver, kidney and heart. Liver and kidney are the organ part, about 10% of a raw diet on the 80/10/10 rule of thumb; heart counts with the meat.
• Tongue and cheek. Rich, hard-working muscle meats with plenty of flavour.
• Chicken mince. Minced with the bone, which brings the bone part into the bowl.

The night before, move one block of Balance Mix and two blocks of your chosen protein from the freezer to the fridge. Next day, mix them together and let them sit for 10 to 15 minutes before serving. The ratio stays the same whatever protein you pick, so you can rotate through beef, veal, goat and chicken over the week with the same routine. Our guide to the BARF diet explains where organ, bone and meat fit in a raw diet.

Whatever is left keeps for two to three days in a sealed container in the fridge. Our guide to thawing and storing raw dog food has a weekly routine.

On the one-to-two routine, one box of Balance Mix goes with two boxes of mince or mix and lasts a 10 kg dog about 19 weeks, a 20 kg dog about 10 weeks and a 30 kg dog about 6 weeks.

No lamb, goat, fish, horse, venison, alpaca or grain. It does contain beef and chicken: the liver, kidney, heart, tongue and cheek are beef, and green tripe counts as beef too.

Balance Mix goes with any of our mixes or single-protein minces, like Beef Mince, Veal Mince, Goat Mince or Chicken Mince. Our guide to liver and organ meat for dogs explains how much organ to feed.

It’s one of our speciality raw dog foods, along with Green Tripe, Tripe Rolls and Wild Mix.

Balance Mix is made to order in the Waikato and delivered chilled across Auckland and the Waikato. It comes in a 10 kg box, cut into blocks of about 500 g so the one-to-two routine is easy to keep. The blocks are stacked in a liner inside a 36 × 27 × 18 cm carton.