I have found in my quest for knowledge that there are BARF'ers (Bones and Raw Food) and then there are
RAWFEEDERS.  The BARF'ers add all kinds of supplements to their meals (veggies, minerals, etc)....rawfeeders feed only raw meaty bones.  Both will say that their diets are the correct diets.  However BOTH would agree that either is better than kibble.  I've truly found that rawfeeding is just as easy to do as kibble - and much healthier for my boy...BARFing is a lot more complicated....but those who BARF will tell you that there dogs are much
healthier and happier, too, on their diet.  It's whatever works best for you and your dog(s).

We rawfeed. Instead of trying to stick to a specific menu, I will usually incorporate a few organs into his meals every day (then I don't forget), and as I've been told Boxers tend to be anemic, I feel this will probably work best for my boy.  If you can get your hands on spleen - this is one of the highest iron level organs you can feed your boxer (and not nearly as slimy as liver!)

Every meal has raw meaty bones (RMBs).  Sometimes this will be a whole chicken carcass with a bit of extra chicken, other times it will be a pork neck.  I make it as easy for me as possible--to which I've learned to give him a towel to haul his meals onto, to save the mess on my floors and carpets (right beside his eating area).  The longer you raw feed--the easier it becomes!

The secret to going completely raw is to start one protein at a time (ie; chicken for a week, add a few
organs, but not alot or you dog might get "cannon butt"… then add pork for a week, then add another meat. Follow the whole prey model - feed green tripe, heart, kidney. liver, anything you can get your hands on.  I gave
Sugar Ray turkey feet one day to see what he'd do...ended up being more a toy than anything!  But, it was great fun for him in the backyard! From my research into this, I've seen a few posts where dogs threw up what they
were given for a meal.  The responses to those posts are usually that the dog is being fed too much at once, and also, when new to raw, the stomach can't handle lots of different proteins.  It takes a little while for the stomach acids to build up to the level of being able to digest the harder bones (which is why you should start with chicken - because the bones are very soft and easily digested).  You might want to try feeding several times a day of small meals (ie, start with chicken necks and backs).

What should you buy? Anything you can get your hands on;  Chicken, Beef, Pork, Buffalo, Deer, Fish (Salmon, freeze 3 weeks to be on the safe side...), Caribou, Elk, Ostrich, Imu…liver, kidney, heart, tongue, you get the idea…If it's meat--any and all - feed the whole prey method (ie; what would they get if they were accomplished hunters in the wild) - but in smaller cut down portions (ie; we don't give a whole rib cage at once, altho some do...we cut it down to serving size). If you know a butcher - MAKE FRIENDS WITH HIM OR HER!  Don't tell them at first it's for your dog - or they'll try to give you (with the best intentions, I'm sure)...the extremely clean bones
(ie; recreational bones).  Make sure there's lots of meat!

I approached the head butcher in a grocery store and explained that I wanted restaurant quality chicken necks/backs, pork necks, etc ... and could I get them at the restaurant prices?  He obliged....might work for you, too.  Otherwise, sometimes you can go to your bigger grocery stores and find boxes of frozen meat (ie chicken legs, fish, porkchops, etc) at a cheaper price than the 'fresh' stuff on the meat counter.  I would probably start with chicken halves/quarters. As long as the bones are raw--they can eat them.  Since graduating from necks and backs, we now feed duck and chicken carcasses (call your local poultry farm and see if you can buy them there!).

Don't forget organs and green tripe - they are where the vitamins and minerals are at - in abundance.  Also, when you buy tripe - don't buy the bleached out white stuff in the grocery store - get it from a slaughterhouse, or from your local pet food store (sold in cans).  The bleached out stuff has NO NUTRITIONAL VALUE whatsoever - you need GREEN TRIPE.

I was told to stay away from weight bearing bones (except for chicken, they are soft and easily chewed, crunched,
broken down).  All other weight bearing bones are too hard and can break teeth.  Thankfully, our Sugar Ray was
always given weight bearing bones from a pup...and so has the experience on how to chew them (not to say that he couldn't break a tooth, just that it hasn't happened yet).

Also - when you first start, if you're dogs weren't puppies raised from raw - they might be gulpers.  That's the only thing I would watch out for.  It's a dog's nature to chew on bones, and to relish them .... just watch them while they eat (you can still putter around and do things, just be aware of what they're doing).  We've not had any problems whatsoever.  If Sugar Ray ate too fast, and didn't chew the bone small enough, or if he tried to eat a chunk of meat basically whole, it would come back up, he'd lap it up, and start again!  Gross, I know...but he loves it!

As for supplements…I've been reading that in the wild wolves only eat 'fruit' if it's in season - and rarely. With all the pureeing that you have to do with veg and fruit to make it digestible for the dog - what's the point?  It wouldn't get pureed in the wild (unless Kitchenaid has come up with a paw friendly, solar operated blender!).  Having said that - I know that they drink lake water - so, spirulina grows in lakes (it's a blue green algae, available at health stores) - and is considered by 'the powers that be' a complete food.  Now, I only just recently started giving it to my Boxer - occasionally (read into that, whenever I remember). 

Not sure how much you should feed your dog? Raw4Dogs has a calculator that figures it out for you!  You should be feeding your dog 2-3% of it's total adult body weight (what it should weigh as an adult).  

If you've read this far, you must be researching ...I would also recommend checking out discussion lists (see my links above) --full of extremely helpful people who've been feeding their dogs RAW for years!