Reddit reviews Raw and Natural Nutrition for Dogs: The Definitive Guide to Homemade Meals

A few good resources to start out is https://www.rawfeedingmiami.com/apps/help-center (i use them to also order organs and more abstract stuff i cant get regularly from the store) and https://perfectlyrawsome.com/

This book was also very helpful with the transition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1556439032/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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I feed mostly Chicken thighs(with skin and bone) pork shoulder meat (sometimes ribs or riblets) and various assortments of red meat(typically not with a beef bone) Beef bones i dont use much as they are much harder for the dogs to break up and not necessary if they are getting other bones. they do make good chew toys from time to time if i want to give him something to chew on outside. Then organ meats are very critical for nutrients especially liver. Some things to add in that help supplement i've found are coconut oil, chicken feet, green tripe, bone broth, fish oil and eggs(raw or cooked).

For transitioning you'll want to stick with 1 protein, usually chicken is the easiest most people find. I would go boneless 1st then start trying to give a chicken thigh bone or wing and see how it works. My dog took to it right away no issues but it could just be him. You'll SLOWLY want to work in organ meats. Just a little bit at a time as it may cause diarrhea the 1st couple of times while you transition them as their gut biome gets use to the change.

The books and resources above can help with giving you example meals and even have very structured step by step transition guides to help. Eventually you'll start to get a better understanding and you can also tell based on your dogs stools to an extent. If they are straining and its very solid almost chalky its too much bone, if its too soft not enough bone, diarrhea too much organs. Organ meat you want about 2:1 of liver:other organs. Again maybe its just my dog but he LOVE liver, 1st thing he'll take out of his plate (they also say in the wild this is the 1st thing wolves try to go for) Anyways eventually you'll find the right balance. Some people like to feed organ all at once as a meal like once a week but i prefer to include small amounts with each meal or every other meal.

I found a good balance around 2:1:0.5 for Muscle meat(skin & fat):Bone:Organs (chicken thighs are pretty much perfect ratio of bone to muscle ratio) My dog is 90+ lbs and pretty active so he gets around 2lbs of food per day. Typically that looks like 1 chicken thigh or drumstick, a few additional muscle meat chunks of pork or beef and then a small serving of liver or kidney etc maybe an egg cracked on top, scoop of coconut oil or chicken feet(his absolute favorite thing to eat) sometimes. I feed this twice a day. Originally i would get a bunch of the food together at once and meal prep a bunch of daily meals then freeze them and take them out as needed but as its been a few years I'm pretty good at making them as i go and eyeballing the proper amounts per each meal.

It seems like a lot of work to begin but its pretty easy once you get use to it and use to the ingredients. Also its not as expensive as it seems if you are good at finding deals, it can actually be cheaper than high end dog food. I always load up on chick thighs and pork shoulders etc when they are on sale less that $1/per lb. I personally am also use to meal prepping for myself so it was an easy undertaking when i started also meal prep for my dog, just bloodier lol.

Check out Raw and Natural Nutrition for Dogs. It's an awesome book and has a great homecooking section/guide.

If she really does have allergies it is best to keep her on a home-made [whether cooked or raw] diet, since that way you know exactly what she's eating and can eliminate certain ingredients that could be the culprit. A dry food does not allow you to do that.

I would start by adding eggs and ground eggshells to her diet [good for the skin and coat, the eggshells provide calcium] and removing the rice since it does not provide any nutrition. Make sure she is getting a lot of meat, it should make up 60-75% of the meal.

https://www.amazon.com/Raw-Natural-Nutrition-Dogs-Definitive/dp/1556439032?ie=UTF8&dpID=51yqhF7xf3L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_

There are sections specifically for kidney health, liver health, etc.

Fads or not, where i am from we did not have a concept of "pet food" up until 20 years ago. We also did not neuter. Millions of pets were fed raw and/or home cooked, yet I have never seen the amount of health issues US pets have.

I picked up a copy of Raw and Natural Nutrition for Dogs: The Definitive Guide to Homemade Meals and was very surprised to find exact same recipes that we've fed our dogs decades ago