What is the board's opinion concerning feeding raw chicken legs? I have a one year old Gsd, and he loves raw chicken legs. Also, I know that one is not supposed to cook bones, but what about frozen bones? Is there any danger of bones splintering after being frozen?
Frozen bones are fine. I feed leg quarters when I am out of other stuff- and have never had any problems. They are a bit higher in meat than the other traditional RMB's like chicken necks and backs so I don't feed them often.
Even "fresh" chicken you get at the store has often been frozen or semi frozen in transit. They consider meat that is kept 32* or above "fresh" ...
I feed mine let quarters most of the time as I cannot get necks or backs and wings are WAY too expensive. I can get quarters for $.39 a pound.
I just balance out the meat/bone ratio by feeding less straight muscle meat. My dogs are healthy, I don't have any problems so I think I am achieving balance. And my dogs have never had any problems with the quarters, even when one decided to swallow a small leg whole .
Elisabeth, that sounds like my dog. This is what I like to do with Lance, my Gsd. I put him in a down/stay. I then go and hide the chicken leg somewhere in the backyard. I then return to him and release him telling him to go find the bone. He loves this game. He always finds it. It amazes me the way dogs can smell things we humans can't.
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