We make available to the public the supply chain, inventory and production details about our products. This post contains information from a specific product production run.  More information about our product production logs is here.

This picture is of Sally, a great dane boarding with us who gladly agreed to sit while we snapped a pick with finished product on its way to the freezer for storage.

Inventory and Production Notes

This is the production log for Peak Power Raw Dog Food Beef/Chicken Blend produced on this date.  Notes are as follows:

• Lot code:  11/15/18; Expiration:  11/15/19.
• Total lot weight: 172 pounds.
• Meat defrosted 8-days before; vegetable and fruits purchased 5-days before.
• Vegetables, fruits, meats ground on separate days, so final day was assembly only
• Environment: 65 degrees and humidity 25%.

Ingredient Inputs

Beef Muscle Meat

• Whole beef from All About Nature purchased as 2-whole beefs.
• Meat was originally processed in April 2018 from D&L Meat Company
• Delivered to The Light of Dog Farm April 12 2018 and remained in freezers at The Light of Dog Farm.

Beef Liver

• From Farm2Table Meats as whole cow liver.
• Meat was originally processed in May 2018 time frame by Jensen's Blue Ribbon Processing.
• Picked up on August 3, 2018 Farm2Table in Sedalia, which came direct from the processor.
• Transported to and remained in freezers at The Light of Dog Farm.

Vegetables and Fruits

• Vegetables were zucchini and carrots grown from The Light of Dog Farm in 2018.
• Fruit was apples grown from The Light of Dog Farm in 2018.

Additional Ingredients

• Fish:  omitted for this lot because it was the wrong type purchased and we could not use it.
• Eggs:  from The Light of Dog Farm chickens, fed organic layer corn-free and soy-free feed.

Packaging Inputs

• 2-quart Glad food storage containers.
• Label is 1 x 2 5/8 Avery brand from Amazon.
• Labels are not biodegradeable and ink is not plant-based; we hope to move to biodegradeable labels in 2018.

Equipment Inputs

• Logistics:  we use gas-powered vehicles for pick up of ingredients.
• The Light of Dog Kitchen, freezers, refrigerators, mixing and holding containers, grinder, utensils, weight scale:  please see this post on Dog Food Production and Processing Equipment at The Light of Dog Farm.

Resource Inputs/Outputs

• Water: no additional water is added to the product; we are on well-water and are chlorine and fluoride free.  Click here for most recent well water test.
• Electricity: supplied by IREA.  We are not yet on solar/wind.
• Recycling: we separate trash items for recycling.
• Ingredient waste:  we feed any ingredient waste or excess to our chickens or it gets composted and used in our farming.

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