Does anyone feeding a raw diet have experience of or know whether horse meat is suitable for dogs. I was talking to someone who had experience of feeding it to wolves at a zoo and there is a good supply source near to where I live. This source supplies horse meat fit for human consumption which is a delicacy in europe seemingly!
I have a friend who feeds it regularly to foxes; I don't see why you couldn't feed it to a dog, but it would depend on where the horses are coming from. My issue w/it would be the RIDICULOUS amount of overvaccination horses receive, typically twice a year. I personally would not feed my dogs horse meat because of this, although many horses being slaughtered due to finances may not have received them. I have never looked into how long those things stay in the body, but if you figure a horse is 20, and it's been done 2x a year since it was born...that's 40 rounds of shots, averaging about 3-7 per round. Yuck.
If you could find random wild horses dropping dead, that would be peachy;-)
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To a point protein is protein is protein. Depending on where you live horses may be raised for meat (like in France). Personally I'd stay away from ex american/canadian stock because lord only knows what drugs were put into them before they ended up in the butcher cart.
So if you're willing to pay for it from a decent source, understand that a horse imo doesn't have alot of RMBs, and are comfortable with the idea, go for it.
I'm just going to guess that most of the horses that go through a sale barn are probably not vaccinated twice a year. Show barn and boarding barn horses are probably over-vaccinated.
If you feed your dogs meat with no bone you can use bone meal or DiCal in place of the bone. I just sprinkle DiCal on the meat before I feed it to my dogs.
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Does anyone feeding a raw diet have experience of or know whether horse meat is suitable for dogs. I was talking to someone who had experience of feeding it to wolves at a zoo and there is a good supply source near to where I live. This source supplies horse meat fit for human consumption which is a delicacy in europe seemingly!
About the RMB part: You know about the crucial calcium/phosphorus ratio, right? Particularly with puppies (but important with adults too), you don't want to give boneless meat without careful supplementation of calcium. (Similarly, you don't add calcium to real RMBs.)
Does anyone feeding a raw diet have experience of or know whether horse meat is suitable for dogs. I was talking to someone who had experience of feeding it to wolves at a zoo and there is a good supply source near to where I live. This source supplies horse meat fit for human consumption which is a delicacy in europe seemingly!
About the RMB part: You know about the crucial calcium/phosphorus ratio, right? Particularly with puppies (but important with adults too), you don't want to give boneless meat without careful supplementation of calcium. (Similarly, you don't add calcium to real RMBs.)
You could also add it to some bony items like chicken backs or wings.
Or keep horse meat in your back up plan for the rare event that your dog need an elimination diet for allergies. Something to think about since I'm sure you could get excellent variety without the addition of horse.:wink:
I give my dog ostrich meat and she is just fine. Our ostriches aren't vaccinated and I use the ones that break their legs and must be killed. (leg-breaking is the ONE thing an ostrich does very well). She also gets other game from time to time.
So IMO go for the horse meat, just get info on the calcium/phosphorus ratio.
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