I live in NC and our limit is 6 deer per season. That averages out to about 8 or 900 lbs of walking deer. From that you can get 2- 300 lbs of human edible meat, give or take. Normally I don't shoot many because I can't eat it all. It costs me $40 for the tags and $3 in shells.
Each deer is about 1 hours work to process.
The fat content is a factor I hadn't thought about however. My dogs are adult and moderately active.
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
raw fed dogs get their energy from fat, not carbs like in kibble.
i hadn't dwelled on the fat content, either - just that i had some meat to get rid of. but after my dog lost 3-4 pounds over a week and a half of normal activity and a venison binge, it dawned on me.
3-4 pounds of 80% lean hamburger and a few days later he was back to normal.
I've been feeding my dog Canidae but have found out that several other owners have had itching problems with this food, so I've decided to go mostly raw, at least for the time being. I give my GSD raw ground turkey meat with a couple of chicken wings two times a day. I added some carrots and celery to the food but he didn't touch any of the vegetables. Do any of you have a suggestion about feeding him vegetables? It seems to me that vegetables would be beneficial. Is there a certain way I can prepare the vegetables that will make them more palatable to him. Are there vegetables that dogs like?
Take the raw vegetables and puree them, either in a blender or cuisinart, then mix them in with the ground turkey. That will make it more appealing to the dog.
I live in NC and our limit is 6 deer per season. That averages out to about 8 or 900 lbs of walking deer. From that you can get 2- 300 lbs of human edible meat, give or take. Normally I don't shoot many because I can't eat it all. It costs me $40 for the tags and $3 in shells.
Each deer is about 1 hours work to process.
The fat content is a factor I hadn't thought about however. My dogs are adult and moderately active. I don't know if other states are like this, but in Alaska it's against the law to feed wild game to domestic animals. I had the same idea except I was going to use a moose that had easily mor meat than six deer. Alaska is big on subsitence use so maybe it's the only state like this.
I think if they are going to enforce that, they probably need to round up all the eskimos. I just can't imagine a guy on an ice flow up there not feeding his dog some seal blubber. What do they want the guy to do order a specail flight in for some purina? And what do all the homesteaders do?
Hard to believe they would have a law like that in relatively freedom rich Alaska.
Jeannette Polowski Webboard User Reg: 03-12-2002
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FYI, here in NY, you can't go and buy outdated meats from any butcher in a supermarket, they aren't allowed to just in case it IS you who is really going to eat it!!(yuck) Instead they get rid of it via renderers.
I get alot or RMB's from the deers my cousin gets this time of year, and also the private deer butchers are always happy to let you take the scraps.
No one ever said life was supposed to be easy, life is what you make of it!!
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