Finally, we have survived the hot summer months and are entering the good old days of fall. However, although the temperature in the fall is suitable, it is dry, so how can cats eat healthy? Into the fall, cats will slowly grow a thick coat to prepare for the winter cold, so in this season, the diet structure is best to effectively promote the growth of the coat. This issue's cat meal focus: hydration and oil replenishment!

It's a good idea to drink more water in a dry climate, which can be solved by eating wet food, but what about supplemental oil?

The epidermal water barrier on a cat's skin retains water in the body. If there is sufficient linoleic acid in the body, the epidermal water barrier can be fully utilized and the cat's epidermal water loss will decline. In this way, the external drinking more water, internal water locking, two-pronged approach, will not become a hair flying static cat. So today, Misao Ma Ma will teach you to make a duck meat beautiful hair cat rice suitable for feeding in the fall.

Homemade duck meat beautiful hair cat rice

A cat rice recipe:

Meat: 800g of duck breast, 100g of duck liver, 100g of duck heart, 60g of duck skin

Vegetables: okra, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, Buddha's hand melon, 50g each

Fat: sunflower oil 15g

Dietary supplements: salt 3g; taurine 4g; brewer's yeast powder 25-30g; adult cats add calcium 3g, phosphorus 1g; kittens add calcium 4.5g, phosphorus 2.5g.

Note:

1. Dietary supplements refers to a specific nutrient, and the amount of this nutrient in the nutrient should be noted, and converted if necessary. need to be discounted. If you are not good at calculating portion sizes, you can directly replace it with the Comprehensive Cat Nutritional Supplement, and refer to the instruction manual of the Comprehensive Cat Nutritional Supplement for specific portion sizes.

2. This cat food should not be used as a substitute for staple food, and should not exceed 20% of the daily calorie intake as a snack.

3. Kittens are cats that are less than one year old, and adult cats are cats that are more than one year old, and cats that are in heat or not in heat.

Two:

1, all the ingredients to buy home, clean, drain the excess water, weigh.

Water not drained will usually result in an error of 10 to 20 g. It is better to have more ingredients than less. If you are using frozen meat, some of the juices will be lost when thawing. It is recommended that frozen meats be thawed a day in advance in the freezer at a low temperature to minimize the amount of juices lost. Juice can be excluded from the raw weight of the meat.

Homemade Duck Meat Mehair Cat Rice

2. Grind all ingredients in a meat grinder and mix well.

First, cut both the meat and vegetables into small pieces, and then put them into the meat grinder, which will be easier to grind. It is recommended to grind the meat first, and then the vegetables, so as to shorten the time for the vegetables to be oxidized in the air. Finally, mix all the ingredients well.

3. Add the dietary supplements and continue to mix well.

(1) Salt:

In order to ensure the balance in minerals, cat food or canned food will use some chlorides, such as sodium chloride (table salt), potassium chloride, etc., when producing, and achieve a balance of potassium, sodium and chloride by mixing the ratio. However, it is more difficult to purchase all these ingredients for home-made cat food, and it is also not easy to achieve the balance of minerals, so the amount of salt listed is based on the amount of chlorine exceeding the AAFCO standard. Most of the salt contains about 600mg/g of chlorine, so if you don't need to consider the mineral balance, adding 2-3g of salt to this recipe is enough.

(2) Taurine:

Taurine can be added at least 1g, but I still give a higher amount for two reasons:

①Taurine has a very high upper safety limit, and a moderate overdose is beneficial;

②The amino acid content of the meat-based cat meal is mostly several times the amount recommended by the AAFCO, and so the amount of taurine should also reach several times the recommended amount. The amount of taurine added should also be several times the recommended amount, so that it will be sufficient in amino acid metabolism.

Homemade Duck Meat Meat Meal for Cats

(3) Brewer's Yeast Powder:

The content of vitamin B complex varies in different brands of brewer's yeast powder with different manufacturing methods, and the amount of vitamin B complex added is for reference only, as the nutritional data of a certain brand of brewer's yeast powder in the U.S. is used. For adult cats, to achieve a magnesium content of less than 1mg/kg while adequate vitamin B complex, adding 25-30g is more appropriate. Vitamin B in brewer's yeast powder is not heat-resistant, so it is recommended to add it after the cat's rice is steamed and cooled, or add it before feeding.

(4) Calcium:

Calcium content in meat and vegetables is not sufficient, and if calcium is not added to homemade cat rice, the total intake of calcium will inevitably be reduced when the total calorie intake remains unchanged, so it is recommended that even if it is a snack cat rice, it would be best to add some extra calcium to ensure that the total intake of calcium is sufficient.

Compound formulations of calcium for human consumption are not allowed, single-party calcium formulations for human consumption are allowed, and compound calcium formulations for pet consumption are allowed.

(5) Phosphorus:

This recipe is designed to meet the NRC's recommended amount of phosphorus if no additional phosphorus is added. However, to meet AAFCO standards and taking into account the calcium-phosphorus ratio, an additional 1g of phosphorus should still be added. The most readily available phosphorus-containing preparations are pet calcium-phosphorus powders, which have a calcium-to-phosphorus ratio of 1.4 to 1.6:1. If you are using pet calcium-phosphorus powders, you can disregard the phosphorus content and just add the recommended amount of calcium.

Homemade Duck Meat and Beautiful Hair Cat Rice

4. Mix the cat rice with added dietary supplements well in a blender.

It is highly recommended to use an electric whisk/blender to blend the cat meal into a homogenized texture. The amount of nutrients is very small compared to the total weight of the cat food, so it is best to use an electric whisk/mixer to mix the cat food thoroughly in order to prevent clumping or uneven distribution of nutrients, and to prevent nutrient buildup or deficiency, which is not possible with hand mixing.

5. Weigh the well-mixed cat rice, divide it into equal portions and steam it for 30 minutes.

How many servings of cat rice is appropriate? The total calorie content of this recipe is about 1500kcal. According to the calculation that the daily feeding amount of cat meal should not be more than 20% of the main food, for a 4kg adult cat, such a cat meal should be fed at most 50kcal per day. For most cats, it is more appropriate to divide this meal into 25-30 days. You can divide this meal into 5 equal portions and feed each portion over 5 to 6 days so that your cat does not miss out on adequate nutrient intake.

Non-staple recipes for cat meals cannot replace cat food as the main staple for long-term feeding in large quantities. Take this cat rice recipe as an example, even though the nutrients I suggested were added according to the portion size, the nutrients such as choline, vitamin K, vitamin D, potassium, zinc, manganese, iodine, etc. are still not sufficient and the minerals have not reached a balanced ratio, which is unsuitable for long term feeding. However, as a side dish, cat rice is qualified, and the average homemade home can reach this level as well.

Homemade Duck Meat Mei-Mao cat rice

Third, the nutritional analysis of the autumn duck cat rice:

Total calories of cat rice is about 1,500kcal, when the calorie density of cat rice is 100kcal/100g, the nutritional analysis: water ≤ 78%, protein ≥ 10%, fat ≥ 4.5%. Carbohydrate ≤ 4.5%, fiber ≤ 1%, ash ≤ 2%.

Four, special tips:

1, the type of fat and the total amount of fat have a role in the beauty of the hair, but the beauty of the hair not only need to supplement the oil Oh. For more principles of hair beauty see my other article - "How to make your pet have a healthy coat? : /article/9032.html

2. Brewer's yeast powder is a very rich source of B-complex vitamins and a powerful way to increase the palatability of your cat's meal, but its high magnesium content means that it can't be added to all cat meal recipes, and it needs to be used with caution in cats with a urinary pH > 6.4 or those suffering from guano. The recipes in this issue have been calculated to ensure that if you don't add more than 30g, you can still keep the magnesium content below 1mg/g, and cats with urinary problems can also enjoy it safely (you can reduce the amount of brewer's yeast powder added to 25g).

3, linoleic acid can enhance the function of the epidermal water barrier, and sunflower oil is a high linoleic acid content of oil. Similar fats and oils are soybean oil, peanut oil, canola oil, corn oil, etc., linoleic acid content of 50 to 70%. If you don't have sunflower oil on hand, you can substitute similar fats.

4, I listed five kinds of vegetables are mainly fall seasonal vegetables. You can also use other vegetables instead, such as Dutch beans, eggplant, pumpkin, lettuce, etc. Note that the difference in the categories of vegetables should be large, and you can just pick one vegetable from each family. The proportion of vegetables is not high, and the impact on the nutrients is not very large, so you can freely replace them. Cats that need to remove hairballs can increase the portion of each vegetable to 80-100g, while increasing the portion of duck liver to 120-150g.

Article from: Mimi Sauce Ma Ma