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http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/trichinosis/DS00689/DSECTION=prevention
QUOTE: "Have wild-animal meat frozen or irradiated. Trichinosis can occur in any meat-eating mammal. Irradiation will kill parasites in wild-animal meat, and deep-freezing for three weeks kills trichinella in some meats. However, trichinella in bear meat does not die by freezing, even over a long period."
http://dogaware.com/articles/wdjhomemade1.html
QUOTE: "Note that trichinosis is also found in carnivorous wild game, including bear and wild boar, and in that case, freezing will not kill it."
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I'll be interested in citations/links for this topic.
I'm thinking that "beaver fever" (giardiasis from giardia lamblia) would be mainly a GI-tract issue (maybe kidneys too) ... and I also believe that beaver has a lot of fat, but that it's just under the skin, and if that's stripped away, is probably a very lean meat.
So I'm thinking that beaver meat might be OK, but that beaver in toto might have some issues.
This is all off the top of my head, and I haven't read about beaver meat in a long time.
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Quote: Connie Sutherland
I'll be interested in citations/links for this topic.
I'm thinking that "beaver fever" (giardiasis from giardia lamblia) would be mainly a GI-tract issue (maybe kidneys too) ... and I also believe that beaver has a lot of fat, but that it's just under the skin, and if that's stripped away, is probably a very lean meat.
So I'm thinking that beaver meat might be OK, but that beaver in toto might have some issues.
This is all off the top of my head, and I haven't read about beaver meat in a long time.
Interesting ....
I have heard, anecdotally, that some mushers feed beaver. We don't trap, so we wouldn't have a source.
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Yes, I have read that extended freezing at zero does do the trick.
The thing is that freezers that are a compartment of the fridge are not generally cold enough (and are in fact more "frozen food storage" than good freezers).
You probably want to use the chest freezer, for the week you mention.
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Quote: Connie Sutherland
Yes, I have read that extended freezing at zero does do the trick.
The thing is that freezers that are a compartment of the fridge are not generally cold enough (and are in fact more "frozen food storage" than good freezers).
You probably want to use the chest freezer, for the week you mention.
When in doubt, cook it. JMO!
We're getting a chest freezer for our hunting and fishing meat. Sam's meat and fish will definitely go in there as well.
As an aside, after much thought and looking up foods on dogfoodadvisor and elsewhere, we settled on Canidae Pure Essentials to tide us over until we have more meat sources to go fully raw. He is actually eating his morning kibble meal again and it's readily available here. We plan on keeping him on 1/2 kibble just until we have more affordable meat sources or get hunting. At that point, I'm considering adding in a pre-mix to go with his raw.
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We're getting a chest freezer for our hunting and fishing meat. Sam's meat and fish will definitely go in there as well.
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