chicken leg quarters

[twood71]

Need to triple check this, but chicken leg quarters are a 80/10 meat to bone ratio correct?

 

[musicdeb]

Sounds about right. Chicken leg quarters are pretty much the best type of meat with the closest ratio to the 80/10.

 

[twood71]

Sounds about right. Chicken leg quarters are pretty much the best type of meat with the closest ratio to the 80/10.

Thanks

 

[DennasMom]

NOPE!

Not even whole chicken is 10% bone (must be due to the innards being removed?)... according to my sources, chicken quarters are about 27% bone.

Chicken:
backs	50%
necks, with skin	40%
necks, no skin	75%
breast	20%
wings	50%
drumstick	33%
thigh	21%
leg quarter	27%
whole	25%
cornish hen	40%

But, the more important thing, is "how does the poop look?"
Hard, crumbly, white on exit = too much bone
Loose, soft, thin = not enough

 

[musicdeb]

Tina, where did you find the bone ratio info? Whole chicken is 10% bone while chicken leg quarter is 27% bone? SMH

 

[musicdeb]

I may be off base here but if a chicken leg quarter is 27% bone then it meets the 10% meaty bone requirement, correct?

 

[twood71]

NOPE!

Not even whole chicken is 10% bone (must be due to the innards being removed?)... according to my sources, chicken quarters are about 27% bone.

Chicken:
backs	50%
necks, with skin	40%
necks, no skin	75%
breast	20%
wings	50%
drumstick	33%
thigh	21%
leg quarter	27%
whole	25%
cornish hen	40%

But, the more important thing, is "how does the poop look?"
Hard, crumbly, white on exit = too much bone
Loose, soft, thin = not enough

Stool is perfect so far. It's small, brown and not strong smelly. They poop easy as well, they don't stand very long for it to pass. Their health and energy is great.

What you posted is what I seen on google, this is why I questioned it. I found it in the Image part of Google so I'm trying to find the link. Seems alot of info on raw diet isn't the same as the other!

 

[musicdeb]

You will find many different opinions re: raw diet on the internet. As long as they are healthy, growing slow and steady and they are pooping ok, all is well with the world.

 

[DennasMom]

sorry, i'm slow getting back here... i've been collecting bone percent info as i see it - dogsnaturally magazine has one article, can't recall where all the rest came from. they don't publish it in official nutrient databases that i've seen, anyway.

i know it makes no sense that my numbers show whole chicken as 25 percent bone...there can't be that much innerd mass that's removed, can there??

i agree chicken quarters are a great bone source, and as long as poops are good...you're doing something right!

 

[DennasMom]

here's one link: Bone And Food Values For Raw Feeding Dogs - Dogs Naturally Magazine

i wonder if the 10 percent bone in 'whole prey' is based on red meat / land animals, not fowl... all the birds seem to be higher on bone content.

 

[twood71]

here's one link: Bone And Food Values For Raw Feeding Dogs - Dogs Naturally Magazine

i wonder if the 10 percent bone in 'whole prey' is based on red meat / land animals, not fowl... all the birds seem to be higher on bone content.

Thanks, I will Read it, never heard of the magazine either.

 

[dpenning]

Is the percentage of bone based on weight? Probably stupid question but I don't feed raw so have not done any research.

 

[DennasMom]

Yes, 10% by weight.

So, a whole 4lb chicken is 3lb of meat and 1lb of bone (assuming the 25% number from the magazine article is good).

I went searching, and found some links of people de-boning whole chickens, and they came up with similar numbers... about 25% meat can be gleaned from a whole chicken carcass. They were looking at $/lb, to see if they were saving anything by doing their own cuts off a whole chicken. They had mixed results on that issue, too.

 

[mark gibson]

I feed raw chicken to bleu but I take of the bone. I'm worried she'll get choked on the bones or they will tear her inside's

 

[twood71]

I feed raw chicken to bleu but I take of the bone. I'm worried she'll get choked on the bones or they will tear her inside's

Raw bone is perfectly fine, it's cooked bones that will do what you state above. Now if it is a smaller dog coming from a Mastiff size you my want to help with chewing by cutting up the meat and bone in smaller parts.

 

[twood71]

Yes, 10% by weight.

So, a whole 4lb chicken is 3lb of meat and 1lb of bone (assuming the 25% number from the magazine article is good).

I went searching, and found some links of people de-boning whole chickens, and they came up with similar numbers... about 25% meat can be gleaned from a whole chicken carcass. They were looking at $/lb, to see if they were saving anything by doing their own cuts off a whole chicken. They had mixed results on that issue, too.

I'm cuurently making adjustemnts off the chicken, but would you know what bones to cut out of the whole chicken to come to a 10% rate? Possibly the leg bones and thigh bone?

 

[Brinsdad]

I think if I was feeding a whole carcass I wouldn't be to worried about bone % nature finds away


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