Home Cooked Dog Food for Organ Impaired Dogs

The following recipe is a good general use recipe that I developed for dogs with most kinds of organ impairment. This food has been used for dogs with liver disease, kidney impairment, heart problems, diabetic and pancreatic problems and food allergies.
I have utilized my degrees in agriculture and the animal nutrition courses I've taken and built this recipe from scratch. There are many years of revision and editing and thousands of hours of work in this particular recipe. It has been reviewed by our veterinarians and is backed by a 9 page spreadsheet containing nutrient requirements and contents for everything down to individual amino acids.  While I don't mind it being shared as needed please respect the effort that went into creating it and give proper credit to the author.

"Edgar Food"

2 pounds uncooked whole grain brown rice.
2 pounds ground turkey (85% lean)
5.5 ounces uncooked pearl barley
10 ounces old fashioned oatmeal
1 cup egg
1 cup rice bran oil
1 tbsp Alaskan Salmon Oil
2 "Ultra Minerals by Vitabase" tablets crushed (1 Women's Once Daily vitamin  can be substituted for short term use.)


Place all dry ingredients into a 16 quart stock pot. Add 1.5 gallons of water. Over medium heat, bring to a boil.

In a mixing bowl mix oils, egg, crushed mineral tablets, and thawed, raw turkey until mixture is a homogenous slurry. Add mixture to boiling pot. Stir thoroughly. Allow to return to a boil. Remove pot from the heat, cover and allow to stand until grains have absorbed most of the liquid. Refrigerate between feedings. Freeze what cannot be fed in 3 days.

(You may also cut the recipe in half and cook in a large crock pot, on low, until grains are cooked. This will be a much runnier food than the above cooking method.)

per cup fed nutrient unit amount kcal kcal/ME/day 171.4 protein g 5.8 fat g 11.2 carbohydrate g 3.9 dietary fiber g 0.36 calcium mg 525.9 sodium mg 27.2 iron mg 1.8 Rough daily energy requirement for average 10 pound dog: kcal kcal/ME/day 300