Tracy Collins Webboard User Reg: 10-09-2008
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I'm no expert, but I don't think that the single-cell organism that causes Giardiasis has anything to do with Beavers. Not sure how it got that name.
Native people ate plenty of beaver meat. I'd see no reason not to feed it to dogs if you have access to it. It wouldn't be much different than feeding any other rodent.
That taken care of, I see nothing wrong with feeding it as long as it has been cared for properly...just as with any source and not contaminated during it's processing.
Kiersten Lippman Webboard User Reg: 09-28-2009
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Greasy, eh?
Mushers say beaver meat is a great high-energy food- for the dogs. I could even mail order some for my skijor dog if I wanted to... but there are some beavers that attack dogs at the local lake that might be better deserving of the stew pot.
Go ahead and feed it. I think your boys will love it. If it were me, I would stew it and feed to the dogs to eliminate any giardia risk. Giardia is spread in beaver poo of infected beavers (not all beavers)- but I'm sure bacteria could remain in the gut of the animal if your dog is eating that part. Or could contaminate meat depending on how the beavers are butchered. And I'd introduce slowly rather than totally switching all at once.
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I really don't know much about Beaver Fever (giardia) only that a lot of mountain ponds and slower running creeks and rivers around here have the organism.
Any animal or human drinking freely from these waters can be exposed to it. I'm not sure why they don't call it fox fever. I believe just as many of them can be carriers as are beavers. It's probably because beavers are seen in the infested waters more than other animals. Who knows what our forefathers were thinking.
I would absolutely feed beaver if I had a supply of it. I'd keep a close eye on the output, like any newly introduced protein but I think you pretty much run the same risk feeding any type of game or wild meat.
Beavers are on their way. Both dogs had a small taste of it and wanted more. Seem like we will also get some fishers!
Nice when the pest become my dogs free food.
The hunter will provide me with some cut off of other animal like deer, wild turkey and other small games. Most from my land.
If fishers are at all similar to mink your dogs won't eat them - raw, cooked, dessicated or rotten.
Eagles will eat mink... and raccoon, 'possum and coyote carcasses. We saw our first Golden and two Bald Eagles of the year this Sunday at our winter feeding station.
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