Jeff Cambeis Webboard User Reg: 03-12-2008
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I know she ate her full of the turkeys she caught. But I agree encouraging that behavior would not be appropriate. Not to mention chickens are pretty fast and I can see Dori getting hurt pretty bad.
I think the best case is trapping and catching and killing the chickens. I guess I will have to learn how to clean and de-feather chickens.
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Years ago we had a neighbor who decided to get some chickens and used our fence as one side of his "chicken coop" and he didn't put a top on it. Every once in a while one of the chickens would venture into our yard. I would come home & find me GSD sitting proudly beside his dead trophy. He always pulled off the head and the legs and that was it. May have been a different story if he had been fed RAW......
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I guess I will have to learn how to clean and de-feather chickens.
Really to be honest...you don't even have to do that....just split them and feed. My dogs don't eat the feathers....I tried it with pheasants from last years hunt.....we breasted them out and I fed the rest.
But they are not that hard to clean really, just time consuming.
WHERE the HECK is Yuko? She does the whole prey model feeding and has massive amounts of pictures of what she feeds.....
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I agree, the chickens need to be killed first, as humanely as possible. Dogs aren't like cats. At least in the wild, from what I've read, tigers and lions will suffocate their prey till it dies, whereas wolves will start gutting their prey while it's still alive. I don't know what a dog would do with a bird/chicken but if it's anything like what was described, it's not a good way to go for a prey animal.
I haven't actually tried it on a chicken, but I'm thinking for dog consumption, it might be way less time consuming to just skin the birds rather than what I've done in the past which was scalding and plucking. That's a lot of work- not to mention stinky and messy.
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Quote: Carol Boche
Quote: Jeff Cambeis
I guess I will have to learn how to clean and de-feather chickens.
Really to be honest...you don't even have to do that....just split them and feed. My dogs don't eat the feathers....I tried it with pheasants from last years hunt.....we breasted them out and I fed the rest.
But they are not that hard to clean really, just time consuming.
WHERE the HECK is Yuko? She does the whole prey model feeding and has massive amounts of pictures of what she feeds.....
Hmmm I didn't think about that. I think I will try just splitting them. What about pulling out the feed bag.
My dog kills and eats rabbits but when she kills gohers she just plays with the until they are dead.
She is a better mouser than our barn cats but leaves the mice for the litte dog and pup.
She salivates in ths spring when she hears the kittens in the loft. I have caught her eating a ferral cat. It was mostly gone before I found out and got the carcass away from her.
The dog has the highest prey drive of any dog I have seen.
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