Animal Feed & Recipes

Udder wash – ( just warm water or warm water with a splash if brown vinegar)

Teat dip (1 part brown vinegar to 1 part water plus 3 to 4 drops Tea Tree oil per ounce)
I’ve worked out the Tea Tree oil to be 1 teaspoon per quart of mix.

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Goat feed:

50 lbs 12% sweet feed
25 lbs crimped oats
10 lbs black sunflower seeds

Prairie grass hay
Alfalfa hay

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Homemade Dog food

5 lbs ground meat (a combination is best)
10 lbs unbaked homemade **animal egg bread (made with meat juice, broth, a little grease instead of water)
10 c cornmeal
extra eggs
extra meat juice or water
ground cooked vegetables like carrots, peas, corn …

cook meat and crumble. Mix everything into bread dough, add more flour or liquid as needed to make it bread-like. bake until done in bread pans, cake pans, muffin pans …. when done and cooled enough to handle, crumble meat bread onto cookie sheets in dog size bites and bake low until dry and crunchy.
Our dogs love it.

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** Animal egg bread is just a basic egg bread recipe with meat juices and broths added instead of liquid.

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Homemade Dry Cat Food

1 lb ground meat (a combination is best)
2 lbs unbaked homemade **animal egg bread (made with meat juice instead of water)
extra eggs
ground cooked vegetables like carrots, peas, corn …

cook meat and crumble. Mix everything into bread dough, add more flour as needed to make it bread-like. bake until done. when cooled enough to handle, crumble meat bread onto cookie sheets in cat size bites and bake low until dry and crunchy.

Our cats would not eat it with cornmeal.

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Rabbit Food

20 lbs alfalfa pellets
5 lbs blck sunflower seeds
5 lbs whole corn

dried and fresh carrots
dried and fresh leaf lettuces
raisins

grass hay
alfalfa hay

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Suet Cakes

1 pound lard
16 to 20 oz. crunchy peanut butter
1 cup raisins
1 cup sunflower or mixed birdseed
6 cups cornmeal
5 cups all purpose flour

In a sauce pan, over medium heat, melt lard. Remove from heat and add peanut butter, stir till melted. add raisins, birdseed, cornmeal and flour a bit at a time stirring until mixed. Spoon into some kind of mold and freeze until needed. I use a hamburger maker to form circles then separate with wax paper and store in old bread bags in the freezer.

You can also add old stale cereal, cookies or bread if you want.

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~ Cat Yum ~ (to repel fleas and ticks on cats)

2/3 to 1 c wet food (store or homemade)
1 beaten egg
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder (never garlic salt or raw garlic)
1 Tablespoon brewers yeast (or distillers yeast)

very warm water ** but not hot

Mix all ingredients except water and store in airtight container in fridge. When ready to feed, mix 1 teaspoon warm water per Tablespoon of Yum. cats rarely like to eat cold things so the very warm water warms to Yum and most cats love it.

Feed 2 Tablespoons per 10 pounds per day

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~ Flea Biscuits ~ (to repel fleas and ticks on dogs)

2 c flour (whole wheat is best but all purpose is fine too)
1 c cornmeal
2/3 c brewers yeast (or distillers yeast)
2 t garlic powder (never garlic salt or fresh garlic, both are very harmful to dogs)
2 egg yolks
1 1/2 c boiling chicken broth ( I make my own by boiling the leftover chicken bones) (you can also use beef broth)

Put the broth to boil. Mix all the dry ingredients together then add the egg yolks and work in with a heavy spoon. Add the broth to the mix and mix well with heavy spoon. Set aside and allow to cool. When it’s cool enough to handle use a little flour/cornmeal mix to dust hands and form into a large ball. Add more flour/cornmeal if it’s to sticky. Now you can either pinch off pieces and flatten or roll out and cut like biscuits. Any shape will do (bones, circles, stars …) but they shouldn’t be more then 1/4 inch thick. Bake at 375 for 15 mins then turn and bake 15 mins more. Allow to cool fully and store in an airtight container. Makes about 70 medium biscuits.

I make 2 inch circles, between 1/8 and 1/4 in. thick, and give them for fleas and ticks, 1 cookie per day for every 50 pounds. You can break them in half for 25 pounds or make smaller biscuits.

It may not seem like enough at first but the garlic and yeast build up and work wonderfully.

**Can be stored on the counter, the dryer they are the longer they last.

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~Critter Nips~ ( to repel fleas and ticks for goats and rabbits)

5 c oatmeal or rolled oats
2 c flour (whole wheat)
4 shredded carrots
1 T garlic powder
1 t ginger root powder
1 c raisins
2 c applesauce
1 c vegetable oil (canola or corn)

Combine all and drop by 1/4 to 1/2 Tablespoons on ungreased cookie sheet. bake at 250 deg for 2 hours. Remove and allow to dry overnight before storing. Store with lid ajar so they don’t mold and they last for months.