I'm starting raw for one dog. I see everyone is talking necks and backs however I cannot get them. Is there any reason I cannot feed the chicken breast with bone in and the drumsticks?
Jan Williamson Webboard User Reg: 08-10-2005
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The only drawback to feeding chicken breast is the ratio of bone to meat. There is an awful lot of meat on the breast compared to bone, and if you follow the "formula" for raw feeding, you need to feed more bone than meat. In my opinion, it is too time-consuming to cut off the meat and weigh it and then weigh the bones and figure out the ratio, and I am nowhere near confident enough to "eyeball" the ratio every time. Necks and backs have almost the perfect ratio of meat to bone already built in!
Thighs and drumsticks, again, are okay, but they, too, have extra meat on them to take into consideration.
I would look in the phone book for meat-packing plants or supply houses and see if you can buy backs and necks in volume. Also, contact some local butcher shops and ask if they can get them for you.
How about pork necks or pork riblets or turkey necks?
Eva Czarnojanczyk Webboard User Reg: 10-25-2006
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I would look in the phone book for meat-packing plants or supply houses and see if you can buy backs and necks in volume. Also, contact some local butcher shops and ask if they can get them for you.
How about pork necks or pork riblets or turkey necks?
I'd also look to see what else the meat-packer would have, like lamb carcasses or deer, maybe even horse if you live in a horse-racing area (if that idea's not too repugnant).
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I'm starting raw for one dog. I see everyone is talking necks and backs however I cannot get them. Is there any reason I cannot feed the chicken breast with bone in and the drumsticks?
That's a lot of meat to bone, as Jan points out.
The idea is to feed the equivalent of the whole prey carcass.
However, if you mean breast quarters, that's different, IMO. That's the breast, rib, and wing. (The fowl is cut into four pieces, and the two front pieces are breast quarters.)
After you get going, you'll want to introduce variety with fish, maybe rabbit -- whatever you find is convenient and reasonable.
There is no issue with feeding chicken as long as it's raw. I feed drumbsticks to 8 week old puppies and have only had one problem, a pup got the bone broken but it stuck in his teeth. I simply removed the bone and gave it back to him and he finished it. Feeding raw isn't rocket science, just feed a varied diet of chicken, beef, eggs and fish. Add a good multivitamin powder and some omega3 along with an occasional ground vegitable mix and you will have a happy dog. If you have access to game that can be ok too. I have a one year old GSD that has never eaten dog food and he is healthy happy and looks very good. (he was the pup that had the bone stuck)
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