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My dog is a picky eater. How do I balance a homemade chicken diet?

Updated on September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Chihuahua | Female | unspayed | 1 year and 4 months old | 3 lbs

im cooking home made diet i need to know how many oz of cooked chicken breast to feed (i will be adding veggies and a multi vitamin is there any multi vitamin you recomend) and will add in chicken heart iv all ready tried diffrent brands of dry dog food leaving it out for days and starving her she just wont eat or canned she wont eat canned too

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Dr. Melanie, BVSc MS

Answered By Dr. Melanie, BVSc MS

Veterinarian

Published on August 18th, 2017

It's very hard to get the correct balance of nutrients to keep your dog healthy with a homemade diet and instead of trying to do it yourself, I recommend checking out these two websites I will link to below. They are run by veterinary nutritionist and provide recipes for homemade diets that are both healthy and balanced for dogs, providing al the nutrients they need. I would feed Sasha a diet from recipes you find on there. I hope this helps :-)

https://secure.balanceit.com
https://www.petdiets.com
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