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Short question.

If the recipe/formula of raw food calls for 100gm (3.5oz) of meat,
do I need to add more than 100g if I cooked it?

Detailed question :

There is a very common formula for "raw" cat food.
That is 3% of BW (body weight)/day (for adults), 5-10% for kittens.

Does the same applies if it's cooked?
Because the weight change when cooked.
For example :
1kg (2.2lb) (raw chicken) → 750g (1.65lb) (cooked chicken)

Is there is a different formula I should follow for cooked meat?
Or do I follow the same one?

If for example that 3%bw = 100g(3.5oz).
If I fed 100 (3.5oz) grams of cooked,
it will be like I fed 133 (4.7oz) grams of raw chicken.
Over the course of the week, that would be about 230g (0.5lb) of extra food.
– extra 300g (0.66lb) / week for my cat 5%BW
– 476g (1lb) if I followed the 10%

To make myself more clear, I'm afraid that by following the raw formula for cooked, I'm giving my cat more food daily than she should eat.

For more context.
My cat is a female [6 months].
I've been following the raw food formula for a couple of months now.
And i think she is getting overweight.
At the beginning of the month (1 December),
her weight record was 2.6 kg (5.73lb) (gained 400gm(0.88lb)/1mth).
She is probably 3kg (6.62lb) by now.

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The best thing is to provide your cat with raw meat - that is their natural diet anyway - IF you can find a reliable source of healthy meat.

As Elmy stated in a comment, cooking changes meat (vegetables too) a lot. What comes out is very different from what comes in.

So if you cannot provide raw meat, then go ahead with commercial food for cats. If the commercial food is too expensive, then go ahead and experiment with what you can.

One idea is: many people have cats and feed them with God-knows-what (or Allah-knows-what). And the cats still live a long life. You can just go this way (trying to provide the best food you can) and monitor the cat and adapt as needed.

virolino
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