Nickel Plate Mills

09/04/2026

A SATIN TEXTURE OF EXTRAORDINARY SUBSTANCE. 🐑 This is the only commercially available sheep milk formulated for pets: and we make it.

🌟 Our Cultured Raw Sheep Milk is an exceptional food in a category of its own.
Made from fully pastured sheep, living and eating in their native habitat, is a full-fat fermented raw sheep milk cultured with raw sheep milk whey that's naturally richer in solids, calories, and nutritional density than other milks.

👉 It's especially valuable for kittens & puppies, growing animals, pregnancy, lactation, and recovery.

And sheep milk brings something particularly remarkable to the bowl:
📍bioactive peptides associated with ACE inhibition
📍oxidative-stress protection and immune regulation
📍exceptional vitamin density and nutrients that support bone and muscle development

👉 There are BILLIONS of living beneficial bacteria within the fresh milk matrix itself❗️

Rich. Living. Exceptionally nourishing. There's ONLY ONE product on the market.
🛍️ ❄️ Find it in your freezer section.

08/30/2026

We're WILD about fermentation. 🦠 Apparently, others are catching on without the same end-result.

FERMENTED
🔬 A fermented powdered milk, pasteurized cultured milk, or fermented kibble can all wear the word on their packaging. That doesn’t make every fermented food equivalent. Not. At. All.

We have taken a different route: fermentation-controlled food production. The formulation is built around microbial transformation, with time, temperature, variety of cultures, and the food itself working as part of the process. A living matrix.

📍We use Guided Wild Fermentation.

🦠 Fermentation is not simply something we added in. It governs how our food is made.
And how it still remains living.

So when you see fermented, ask the better question:
What actually fermented, and what remains?

08/01/2026

05/18/2026

THE LITTLE SECRET THEY WONT TELL YOU 🤫
Well-meaning pet parents buying food for their pets should look beyond the protein name on the bag.

A pet that (allergically) reacts to chicken, for instance, may be reacting to the condition of that protein: old meat, rendered meals, poor cold-chain handling, microbial spoilage, oxidized fats, synthetic additives, or a gut already inflamed by ultra-processed food.

Did you know?
Decomposing meat sources can dramatically raise histamine exposure, and biogenic amines such as histamine, tyramine, cadaverine, and putrescine are byproducts of microbial spoilage ‼️

Once formed, they are heat stable, so cooking, baking, canning, or rendering does not reliably erase them. The FDA makes this same point with fish: histamine can build after death when spoilage bacteria act on tissue, and once formed, it cannot be removed by washing, freezing, or heating.

💸 This is why inexpensive pet food can become expensive biology.

😱 AAFCO notes that certain dead, dying, diseased, or disabled animal materials may enter animal feed after rendering to remove disease-causing microorganisms. Rendering may address microbes, but it does not turn aged, decomposing, or low-quality raw material back into fresh food. Roadkill and old carcass material carry the same concern in plain language: unknown time of death, unknown temperature, unknown gut rupture, and no controlled chilling.

🚧 Healthy food cannot come from sick animals or bad handling.

Humanely raised, pastured animals eating species-appropriate diets create a very different food than feedlot animals, conventionally fed ingredient animals, rotting meats, or heat-processed meals made from questionable raw material.

A pet can react to histamine, but histamine is rarely the whole story. Gut imbalance, parasites, heavy metals, poor mineral status, medications, stress, and immune dysfunction can all affect histamine response.

Aside from the possibility of a pet's own underlying health condition, freshness, sourcing, handling, processing, and the health of the animal behind that protein determine what actually lands in the bowl, and how your pet responds to it.

05/14/2026

GOAT KEFIR WITH A SOOTHING, BUTTER FINISH 🫚🌱
Tummy Butter Kefir Tea is unlike any milk in the freezer. Fermented raw goat milk kefir paired with raw goat milk butter, organic peppermint, chicory, aloe leaf, and ginger creates a rich, full fat wholefood system made for pets who need digestive ease, microbial balance, and a metabolic polish.

CREATED FOR:
Pets needing digestive support, microbiome support, yeast and fungal balance, gut comfort, metabolic support, or a gentler way to bring living food into the bowl.

🌿 HEALTH BOOSTS:
Tummy Butter Kefir Tea brings together living cultures, raw goat milk butter, wholefood prebiotics, botanical digestive support, enzymes, minerals, organic acids, and fermentation born metabolites in one deeply functional milk.

❗️BEYOND PASTEURIZED or RAW MILK, POWDERED MILK, OR PROBIOTIC PILLS
This is a living wholefood delivery system, where fat, probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, peptides, minerals, organic acids, and botanical compounds arrive together in the biological form the body knows how to use.

Tummy Butter Kefir Tea carries a SYNBIOTIC architecture: probiotics from fermented raw kefir, paired with wholefood prebiotics from ingredients like organic chicory.

Creamy. Cultured. Billions upon billions of probiotics.
✨ A milk with manners, muscle, and microbiome magic.

05/05/2026

Our beautiful hanging baskets are ready for Mother’s Day. Hurry in, they go fast!

04/25/2026

One in seven dogs is chronically scratching, chewing, licking or rubbing. Here’s what’s actually going on — and why the answer is rarely what you’ve been told.

04/14/2026

The Founder Who Saw What the Industry Was Losing. 🏆 Seeing new faces and watching our community grow, we thought it would be a good opportunity to pause and reintroduce Chelsea Kent, founder and co-owner of Solutions Pet Products.

Over the past two decades, Chelsea has become a respected voice in pet health and nutrition. Her work has included leadership, advocacy, formulation, education, research, writing, and public speaking. Chelsea was also among the early pioneers, helping build the fermented pet food category and bringing fresh raw feeding and herbalism into the pet wellness conversation at a time when neither had much presence in the commercial market.

Her path into holistic feeding began through her own health struggles, where the search moved beyond symptom management and toward uncovering the root cause of illness. That experience shaped her philosophy and led her to a larger realization: the same reductionist approach that often fails people was failing animals, too.

In 2021, Chelsea launched Solutions Pet Products in response to a troubling shift in the pet food industry. The space once reserved for true gold-standard food, built on ethics, sourcing integrity, transparency, formulation discipline, and measurable biological value, was rapidly giving way to lower standards and marketing deception. Solutions was built not just to preserve that standard, but to surpass it.

Today, Solutions Pet Products reflects an exacting view of what pet food should be: transparent, ethically sourced, rigorously researched, uniquely formulated, biologically appropriate, and uncompromising in quality. Through fresh fermented raw foods and herbalism, Chelsea answered a declining industry standard by surpassing its paragon and reestablishing a new benchmark for what pet food can be. Superb.