My dog needs 10% bone in her diet, 80% meat, and 10% other. A chicken leg is 27% bone. What size leg, and how much meat must I supplement so she has .93 pounds of total food daily?

Question

I need to set up an equation to measure serving sizes for feeding an animal a raw diet.

Answer 1

X is the weight of the chicken leg

Y is the weight of the meat supplement

X+Y = 0.93

0.27X = 0.1*0.93 <--- chicken leg is 27% bone; dog needs 10% of 0.93 for bone

0.27X = 0.093

X = 0.093 / 0.27 = 93/270 = 0.34

then y = 0.93- 0.34 = 0.585 of the meat supplement