Brenda Mitchell Webboard User Reg: 07-03-2007
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I know that the Maverick and Northern Tools meat grinders have been recommended for grinding chicken bones, but does anyone have any experience or knowledge of any European brands?
Here in Estonia I can get: Kenwood, Braun, Philips, Severin, Bomann, or Moulinex. The Kenwood looks pretty sturdy, but I don't want to spend $130+ on one and have it break the first time I use it and not have it covered by warranty because I put bones in it.
I would love to order one from the States, but as meat grinders are heavy the shipping would be high and the taxes and customs fees once it got here would be another story all together. And none of the stores or butchers here will grind it for me - I even got a sermon about diahrrea from the Estonian Kennel Club about giving meat to my dog! (They had NEVER heard of giving chicken with bones to a dog before... so they said.)
steve strom Webboard User Reg: 03-17-2006
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Brenda, look on ebay. The vendors that sell electric grinders talk about customer feedback on grinding bones. I bought one of those old fashioned hand grinders for $2.50 and it works on bones very well.
Brenda Mitchell Webboard User Reg: 07-03-2007
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Thanks, Steve, for the reply! I do have one of those old fashioned hand grinders and my arm is about to drop off! (Besides putting a hole in the bottom of my kitchen table every time I use it, and taking an hour and a half to grind one week's worth of food.)
I did look on e-bay, but I was looking to see how much the Northern Tools and Maverick cost. I didn't check the others because most of them weren't names I can find over here.
Brenda
Why do you have to grind the chicken? If your dog has teeth and healthy jaws a half bird wouldn't be a problem to chew.
If you want small pieces you can use a heavy meat cleaver to mince a whole chicken in 3-4 minutes. If your chopping block is low enough the clever will do most of the work. You will kill yourself if the block is too high. Make sure the dog is handy to grab the chunks that fly off the block.
Brenda Mitchell Webboard User Reg: 07-03-2007
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Hi Debbie,
I'll give it a try. I've given my dog drumsticks and legs and thighs and backs - she chews them a little bit and then tries to swallow them pretty much whole. She basically chews, then gags her food down.
She enjoys it much more ground, and I feel more comfortable with it until she learns not to swallow them whole. We're taking it a little bit at a time. (I've never given her a whole chicken, yet - I know people say it's better to give them a larger carcass - the drumstick is the biggest I've gone so far.) I have a small wooden meat tenderizing mallot that I've tried but it's not heavy enough to break anything. I was thinking to try a metal hammer, next, as I don't have a meat cleaver. But if it works it would definitely be cheaper than a grinding machine.
Thanks for the suggestion!
(But if anyone out there has any experience with the European brand electric meat grinders, I'm still open to hearing your opinions of them.)
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Hi Brenda,
I seem to remember reading something here about NOT using a hammer to break up bones. The bone splinters leaving it with sharp ends. Perhaps Connie or someone else can verify this.
Yuko gave me the suggestion to feed an intact chicken, cut into 1/4 or 1/2 depending on the size of the dog. Unlike chicken parts, my dog takes his time with an intact chicken and doesn't gulp it down.
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