Butcher

[Baine]

Hello,

I have finally found a butcher who does wild game (Moose, Deer......) and chicken, Turkey.

He is willing to give me the necks, ribs, all bones..... anything I want to take off his hands after the customer gets their meat. (All Free)

Is there anything I should be worried about? What should I ask for with regards to organs?

Any info would be wonderful.

This seems to good to be true.

Thank you,

 

[ruthcatrin]

Freeze any wild game for at least two weeks to be sure that any parasites are killed (wild pork, pacific salmon, and bear you should consider freezing longer).

Any organs he'll give you, but heart, liver, and kidneys are the big ones.

 

[angelbears]

Take all the organs you can get. No weight baring bones for eating but they may have meat on them that you can trim off. Rib bones are fantastic. Personally, I don't do neck bones but a lot of people do. Plenty of people feed brains, eyes, testicles..

When it comes to wild game you need to check to see if any precautions need to be taken. Some areas have different parasites and/or diseases you my need to be aware of. Ruth, knows more about this than I do. I don't have a source for wild game so I don't pay much attention to it.

 

[angelbears]

While the heart is a muscular organ, in the raw feeding world we consider it as muscle meat. So don't count that as the 10% organ meat but in the 80% muscle meat.

 

[ruthcatrin]

I'll add, I'm assuming you're in the USA or Canada, if you're not I'll see what I can find out for you about wild caught game.

Also, if the poultry is from a small farm you may want to do a solid freeze on that too, just to be safe. Most large farms will take care of worming or medicating, but smaller organic farms don't use the same methods to control problems (this is after all why people buy organic, BUT, for raw feeding you may want to take additional precautions!).

(AB makes a point about heart, the butcher is going to consider it an organ, but you'll feed it as meat)

 

[DennasMom]

A lot of people do feed lungs, too, as a 'meat'... we tried some grass-fed beef lung, but I found the texture odd (just in handling it, I did NOT taste it!), and so did Denna. She didn't care for it. I had to chop it up pretty small so she'd inhale it without thinking. She does like it freeze-dried, though. Note - Lung is not considered safe for human consumption, and is illegal to sell for human consumption in the US.

I'd probably avoid lungs from wild pigs or boars (due to potential virus issues), unless you cook it first (jerky treats?)... and also freeze well any wild game.

 

[Baine]

Hello,

Yes, I am from Canada.

And thank you for all the help.

 

[Baine]

Hello,

Baine ate Deer for the first time today, took him a little time to get started.

He didn't eat it all like he does with Chicken and Turkey (Should I be Concerned ?).

Question:

I keep having people telling me that feeding this way will give Baine worms, any truth?

I do freeze for 2 weeks.

Thank you,

 

[musicdeb]

I would not be concerned, it was a new meat for him. He should get used to eating it.

As long as you freeze the meat for 2 weeks, there should be no concern of worms.