 Refusing Chicken.
#268483 - 03/09/2010 08:18 PM |
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Tasha has decided that she will not eat chicken, not even livers or hearts. She will sometimes munch on a neck or two, but she never finishes her meal on the days that I feed them.
Tonight I wanted to see if she would go for some ground chicken, and she ate some of it, but only the part that was in direct contact with the egg I fed her.
I can't afford to feed her raw unless she will eat it. I can't even afford to feed myself pork, lamb and beef everyday!
Any advice?
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Re: Refusing Chicken.
[Re: Lauren Jeffery ]
#268485 - 03/09/2010 08:25 PM |
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Maggie has started leaving breakfast behind (half eaten) in the past few weeks. I know she is about the same age. I thought it may be because she isn't growing as much. There are always ribs showing and my husband accuses me of starving her.
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Re: Refusing Chicken.
[Re: Lauren Jeffery ]
#268487 - 03/09/2010 09:03 PM |
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Tasha has decided that she will not eat chicken...
How old? Is she losing weight?
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#268488 - 03/09/2010 09:05 PM |
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Maggie has started leaving breakfast behind (half eaten) .... There are always ribs showing and my husband accuses me of starving her.
Is she actually underweight, in your opinion too, or is that an opinion that you don't agree with?
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Re: Refusing Chicken.
[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#268492 - 03/09/2010 09:23 PM |
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She will be one year old tomorrow!
I would say hat her weight is probably perfect. Since I started raw feeding she has been packing on muscle. She looks great. I just get concerned letting her go more than a day or two without eating because she is still young and growing.
Do you think I should just start to feed chicken and nothing else for a while?
She will get hungry enough to eat it, but only a little. She will eat very little for days on end. The very first time that she gets something better in her bowl she will eat like its her last day on earth! Then she will start to refuse the chicken again.
She loves pork necks, oxtails, ground turkey, any beef, lamb ribs and chops. I just can't afford to feed them all the time.
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[Re: Lauren Jeffery ]
#268494 - 03/09/2010 09:28 PM |
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.... her weight is probably perfect. Since I started raw feeding she has been packing on muscle. She looks great.
This is not a dog I'd worry about.  If she was refusing food and not maintaining body condition, I'd look for answers.
She's eager about ground poultry but not chicken parts? No chance it's a new source with injections of "flavor enhancers" or something? You have given more than one source?
If you know there's nothing "wrong" with the chicken and she's simply waiting for whatever she likes better to show up, and she is in perfect weight and body condition, I'd assume that she is going to eat the chicken when she is hungry enough to eat it. 
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[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#268495 - 03/09/2010 09:31 PM |
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You're putting it down and picking it back up after a few minutes, right?
So no food is actually wasted?
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[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#268499 - 03/09/2010 09:45 PM |
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Well crap. The other day it was just chicken backs, and now ALL chicken?
Tell her you are going to buy the biggest bag of the WORST food Wally World has to offer. That'll teach her.:wink:
Other than that, Connie sounds like she has a good handle on this one. I got nothing productive to add.:smile:
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[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#268500 - 03/09/2010 10:00 PM |
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She's eager about ground poultry but not chicken parts? No chance it's a new source with injections of "flavor enhancers" or something? You have given more than one source?
I've tried backs, breasts, leg quarters, wings, hearts, livers and gizzards. She has no interest in any of it. Tonight I thought I would fake her our with the ground chicken, no luck. It was on sale for a dollar a pound, though.
The place I buy her chicken backs and necks is a local butcher that specializes in chicken. Its free range and all natural. I don't think there are any flavor injections.
I gave her a Perdue leg quarter and she wouldn't eat it.
So basically any chicken, from natural to the most unnatural you can find, the girl just doesn't like it!
I do take the bowl up, wrap it and pop it in the fridge. I don't throw it away until the third time it is refused. I figure at that point here is a chance it has been out of the freezer for too long. Plus, it has leftover fish oil and stuff on it. I can't tell at that point if it's still good.
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[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#268501 - 03/09/2010 10:01 PM |
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Maggie has started leaving breakfast behind (half eaten) .... There are always ribs showing and my husband accuses me of starving her.
Is she actually underweight, in your opinion too, or is that an opinion that you don't agree with?
Maggie is not starving, trust me. I also think she looks good and her coat is great. She's just slowed down on the quantity of food--she is also about a year old like Lauren's dog and not so enthusiastic of an eater (she used to gobble her meals in no time).
Maybe my husband thinks I'm starving him I spend way more time obsessing on the dog...
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