What Hucksley's Bowl is

Hucksley's Bowl™ is your all-in-one companion for feeding dogs and cats homemade raw, BARF, prey-model, or fresh-cooked food — plus a backyard-chicken corner. You build recipes, check them against real nutrition standards, find out exactly how much to feed each pet, cook one batch for the whole household, and print professional food labels. It runs in your browser on a phone or computer, works offline once loaded, and saves everything privately on your own device.

Getting started in 10 steps

1. Set up your pets Tap ＋ Add pet at the top. Add a name, photo, species, breed (up to 3 for a mix), birthday (it auto-fills age & life stage), current and goal weight, activity, allergies, and conditions. Pick a calcium source, a supplement strategy, and check any supplements you already give so the checker never double-suggests. Every calculation uses the selected pet.
2. Find out how much to feed Open Feeding calculator — it turns weight, age, activity, and goal into daily calories and amounts. Weight-loss math uses the goal weight, not the current one.
3. Build a recipe In Recipe builder, tap Create new recipe, name it, pick a type, then search ingredients by typing. Enter amounts in cups, tbsp, tsp, oz, lb, or grams — no converting. Build it at normal recipe-card size; the batch step scales it later.
4. Check & balance it Open the Nutrition Checker. It scores the recipe against AAFCO / FEDIAF / NRC targets per batch and per serving, gives a plain verdict, and recommends fixes you Accept or Decline (calcium, omega-3, vitamin E, premix, moisture). It also flags what it can't verify and what it doesn't track.
5. Feeding alongside kibble Open Toppers & mix-ins: enter your kibble's calories per cup and how much you feed, and it tells you how much homemade topper fits the calorie budget.
6. Cook one batch for everyone Open Batch meal prep — all pets are checked by default. Pick the recipe and number of days; it sizes the whole batch and shows each pet's portion per meal, with a label button for each.
7. Print a label for each pet Open Label generator, search the recipe, pick a pet, and Print or Save as a 4×6 image for Avery or a label printer. You can add a food photo.
8. Recipe cards & shopping Browse Recipe cards (scale 1–10 lb, print), and build a Shopping list that totals everything from the recipes and treats you pick.
9. Treats & enrichment Explore frozen treats, Kong & Toppl stuffers, and lick-mat recipes — and add your own.
10. Organize & back up Track Pantry and Freezer inventory, star Favorites, print Nutrition reports, and use Backup, export & cloud to keep your data safe and move it between devices.

Switching species — Dog · Cat · Chicken

Use the Dog / Cat / Chicken toggle at the very top.

🐈 Cats

Cats are obligate carnivores, so the checker holds them to feline targets including taurine. Build cat food in the same Recipe Builder — just have a cat selected (or set the checker's Guideline profile to Cat). The easiest balanced structure is meat + organ + water + a complete feline meal completer; there are 20 cat meals and 10 treats built in, and the Paw Lickin' Good blends work for cats once you add taurine or a completer.

🐔 Backyard chickens

Chickens get their own section: feeding by life stage, calcium & oyster shell, grit, the 90/10 treat rule, a safe-and-toxic foods list, feed ideas (fermented feed, sprouted grains), and a flock feed calculator that tells you how much feed to buy and how long a bag lasts.

🐾 Puppies & kittens (growth)

When a puppy or kitten profile is active, the checker automatically grades against stricter growth targets — higher protein, calcium and phosphorus, with a tighter calcium cap. A recipe that passes for an adult may read low for growth; that's expected. Large- and giant-breed puppies are especially sensitive to excess calcium — review a growth plan with your vet.

Saving your data & getting updates

Your pets, recipes, inventory, favorites, and labels live privately on the device you use — they don't go to any server. To move them to another device, use Help & Data → Export backup on one device and Import on the other (or save the backup into an iCloud/Drive/Dropbox folder).

Install it — your own icon, offline & auto-updating

Installing puts a Hucksley's Bowl icon on your device and opens the app in its own window, like a normal app:

• iPhone / iPad (Safari): tap Share → Add to Home Screen → Add.
• Android (Chrome): ⋮ menu → Install app (or Add to Home screen).
• Mac (Safari): File → Add to Dock. In Chrome/Edge, click the Install icon in the address bar.
• Windows (Chrome/Edge): click the Install icon at the right end of the address bar → Install.

Always open it from your link and install it — a saved file won't get the icon, offline use, or automatic updates.

Your membership & how to cancel

Hucksley's Bowl is a monthly or yearly membership (you chose at checkout), billed securely through Stripe. It includes all updates automatically.

Cancel anytime

1. Open any receipt or renewal email from your purchase and click Manage subscription (or use the billing link Stripe sends you).
2. Choose Cancel subscription.

Your access stays active until the end of the period you've already paid for, and you won't be charged again. Before each yearly renewal we email you a reminder, so there are no surprise charges.