craftycrafter
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Post by craftycrafter on May 6, 2011 15:47:39 GMT -5
I brought home a big beef heart, a whole beef liver, a whole rabbit, 6 stewing chickens, 2 pork hocks, 5 pounds of tongue. Packaging this up was messy and I had 3 dogs sitting and drooling at me the whole time, hoping for a treat which they did get periodically. My question for those raw feeding experts, the stewing hens are scrawny, they are about 1.5 pounds, could I add some chicken liver, chicken heart, and feed that as a meal with the chicken whole (whole prey speaking) or would it be too much bone at one time? I'd imagine a wild dog wouldn't shake his head at a free meal even if the hen was scrawny.
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Post by Redhead on May 6, 2011 20:32:13 GMT -5
It should be fine to feed at one meal. Every single meal doesn't have to be completely "balanced" with raw, just like how we eat. I'm sure they will love it! My little nieces just got a puppy and started feeding raw, so they came over and I showed them how to make up the mix (they are vegetarians too!). They were cutting up a beef heart on a newspaper on the table and by the time were were done it seriously looked like we had butchered something on the table The beef hearts are messy but they are so good for the dogs, they have a lot of taurine/iron etc. Happy feeding!
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craftycrafter
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Post by craftycrafter on May 6, 2011 22:26:50 GMT -5
about the beef hearts, they come with alot of hard white stuff around the outside of it, well maybe not alot but some, is that fat and do you remove it?
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Redhead
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Post by Redhead on May 6, 2011 23:06:34 GMT -5
Nope, I leave it on. My old dog had pancreatitis problems (which raw actually pretty much solved) but we always had to cut the fat off the meat. With a normal dog though it is fine....I wouldn't waste my time cutting it all off.
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Post by campgreyhound on May 8, 2011 19:16:41 GMT -5
That's suet on the heart, very good for them. Leave it on, for sure.
Karen (kjw)
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moncheri
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Post by moncheri on May 8, 2011 20:18:53 GMT -5
I know what you mean about the beef heart...when my friend's BF worrked at neighbourhood butcher's shop he would cube 2 beef hearts for me & package them in individual baggies about 1/4 lb each! (Man was I spoiled) Unfortunately the butcher retired and the shop closed so I have to track down a new supplier but have been putting it off as not really wanting to cube them up myself!
Bet your puppers will be dreaming of all the yummy meals to come!
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craftycrafter
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Post by craftycrafter on May 8, 2011 20:24:04 GMT -5
Actually we're back to chicken, at least for Lola, she's been having liquid poops and threw up yesterday, she did have some turkey maybe that was it. Ramone had rabbit this morning and his night time poop was also liquid, I had included a piece of rabbit liver, maybe that was the issue, they havn't eaten much organ meats at all. I thought about returning to what I know they are ok with, which is chicken for a week then try either rabbit or turkey again, I still don't have a good percentage worked out for Lola, she's either got hard stools or liquid, not much in between.
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moncheri
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Post by moncheri on May 8, 2011 20:40:52 GMT -5
You could be right - organ meats are quite rich so that could be the culprit. Chicky actually turns her nose up to kidney, liver on it's own causes liquid poop for her (but in small amount with other muscle meat & bone is ok). Can't even show her a piece of Chicken without giving her the runs! My advice would be to introduce new meats slowly to determine what is good/bad.
Hope they both manage to hold it until they get outside!
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