Breeders Mix

• Beef. New Zealand beef, the main red meat in the mix.
• Horse. A second red meat that adds variety to the week.
• Goat. A third protein, and one many dogs haven’t had before.
• Offal. Organ meat, mixed through so every block carries some.

No chicken, lamb, fish, venison, alpaca or grain. It does contain beef, so it isn’t one for dogs that avoid beef. With no chicken in it, it suits kennels that keep poultry out of the bowl.

Most adult dogs eat about 2 to 3% of their body weight a day. For a kennel, add up the weights of the dogs you feed, work out the daily total, and you know roughly how many boxes a week you need. Our feed calculator does the sums one dog at a time, and our guide to raw feeding more than one dog covers mealtimes and freezer space.

Per dog, on the calculator’s amounts for a moderately active adult, one box lasts a 10 kg dog about 6 weeks, a 20 kg dog about 3 weeks and a 30 kg dog about 2 weeks. Two 20 kg dogs get through it in half the time.

Move the next day’s blocks from the freezer to the fridge each night. Thawed food keeps for two to three days, so a few sealed containers on rotation keep a kennel fridge tidy.

Add a raw meaty bone a few times a week, like Beef Neck Bones or Beef Brisket Bones. Both are beef, so they keep the week in the same protein family. For dogs that need a change from beef, Wild Mix uses horse, goat, venison and alpaca instead.

Breeders Mix is one of the boxes on our bulk raw dog food page. Raising a litter? Our guide to weaning puppies onto raw food goes week by week.

Breeders Mix is made to order in the Waikato and delivered chilled across Auckland and the Waikato. Order by the weekly cut-off for delivery the following week, and plan your freezer space: each 10 kg box measures 36 × 27 × 18 cm, with the blocks stacked in a liner inside.