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Garbage or meat??

Caleb

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Most organ meat is perfectly ok for dogs, and good for them. There must be a balanced maintained with the amount of bone, muscle, fat, and organ meat that you feed. Even chicken feet are good for dogs. I've read to stay away from large animal weight baring bones, such as bovine femurs, etc, but even something like that doesn't hurt for them to chew on from time to time. There is tons of info on this if you google it. That's where I've been for all my information feeding raw. I read everything I can on it and try to pick out what's consistent.
 

cj-sharpy

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Yeah weight baring bones are very dense and can splinter like cooked bones.
I've given them before to let the dog strip off any meat but taken away before proper chewing started.
A supervised treat I'd class them as.
Bone wise I've always found that spines, lamb rib cages, and heads can be got cheap or free if you hunt about.
I used to get half a sheep's head for free and the only thing I got back were the teeth.

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angelbears

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Always keep your eyes open for deals. I just scored 4 pork shoulder roast at .35 a pound. I will not feed the bone(excellent for people's pot of beans). They were not in the discount bin. You have to keep your eyes open each time you go to the store. Deals are out there!
 

Caleb

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My dogs used to go out and drag back my old dead, rotten hog carcasses back up to the house and eat on them for days. I figured I'd just let them be dogs. Never a problem except for the wife griping about the look and smell. Had go clean up when we had cumpnee. :)