Thank you Catgirl, I do not have a Sprouts. I have a choice of Walmart, two local (local to the Northeast USA I mean) grocery chains, or Aldis. I never go in Aldis, that building is along the river and floods often and I find the smell of mold too awful.
I have not yet fed the pork. I can't get past my early conditioned fear of raw pork. I may cook it and feed it that way. Jennie and Queen Eva do go nuts over the cooked pork bits (from the bone broth) I give them.
Jennie continues to really show no pattern to the smelly poops. Sometimes I THINK it might be turkey, but then there will be days and days with normal non smelly stool, regardless of what she is fed.
There haven't been any of those bigger soft ones in a month or so, though.
Rats. I am sorry you don't have Sprouts. If pressed to describe it, I would say it's part health-food store, part Aldi's, due to some of the prices, and part Whole Foods, minus the ambiance.
Our Aldi's is in a nice location, and we shop there with some frequency, but I generally do not buy meat for the cats and dogs there. Their whole roasts usually have some sort of solution, and it's usually whole roasts I am looking for, due to the cost of feeding eight animals. Sometimes I will get fresh chicken there, if no one else has a good sale going on.
I never would have expected to be promoting Walmart, but it is possible to find meat there that doesn't have a lot of additives. Should you decide to offer cooked pork or overcome your reservations about giving it raw, an easy way to start is with what they call "country style ribs." They aren't really ribs at all - at least the ones I have gotten are not - because they don't have bones, but they are already partially cut up and generally fairly lean.
Turkey. I haven't fed turkey yet. I want to try it if I can find breasts or whole birds that haven't been adulterated. The prices they ask here for legs and wings are ridiculous, given the proportion of bone to meat. Once I've cut the meat off of a leg that cost $3/lb., I'm left with so little that I might as well have gotten them lamb. Wings are undoubtedly useful as a bony meal for people who feed prey model, or as a treat for pets who love them. So far, most of mine don't.
Bandit likes bones, but a cut-up Cornish hen would keep him happy for a week, as a "side dish."
The issue of bones brings me to one final question about broth. I've pretty much decided that deboning whole leg quarters is a major headache, but I will continue to buy them for J and myself, as they are a favorite when cooked on the grill. My question is, can I save these bones to make the cats' broth? Seasoning will have been used, obviously, but I cannot imagine that it will have penetrated all the way to the bone.