Calcium Phosphorous Ratio / Calcium Supplement

[Flowergirl]

Hey guys!

I have gotten very concerned about the calcium to phosphorous ratio in my raw food.

I had purchased a bone meal supplement and was adding that but I recently put it all into google translate (it's all in german) and found that the calcium is equal to the phosphorous in it, so it's not doing any good.

I crush up the chicken thigh bones, chicken spines, chicken neck bones as well as I can and put them in there, but he spits the larger pieces out so I'm not sure exactly how much he is really getting.

His stool is small, dark brown, every other day, but it's not very firm.

I think I need to supplement with calcium. I've heard that egg shells are the best for that, any ideas where I might find them locally? I'm in Austin, TX right now.

If not, what are you using to supplement calcium?

 

[werecatrising]

I don't supplement but if I was going to I'd get the stuff this place has.

Kitty Bloom Supplements and Vitamins

 

[Flowergirl]

Why don't you supplement?

 

[Flowergirl]

In the end, I was not able to source crushed egg shells in Texas and even if I had I wouldn't have been able to bring them back to Europe.

For now I am feeding raw and canned products purchased at whatever pet store I can find because we are in hotels for a few weeks, but when we finally get into an apartment I will be making my own crushed egg shells I believe.
Still don't know what the availability of raw poultry/rabbit products will be like in North Sweden, but we will see!

 

[werecatrising]

Why don't you supplement?

I feed prey model raw and believe that contains everything a kitty needs.

 

[Flowergirl]

Ah, ok. I was trying to do that too but stool wasn't quite where I wanted it to be.
What do you do with bones?