Hi again,

sorry but more questions about rmb.

I posted before as I got a scare after reading various articles (my post change to tripe). Anyway have researched some more and I have been told that chicken necks and carcass's wont be sharp or puncture on the way through due to the fact they are soft bone. Is this correct? I hope it is as I know my dogs loved eating rmb and think they probably miss it :-)

Just trying to do whats best for my bubs
x

I often think when dogs eat raw chicken, it sounds like they are crunching up a bonio! :p I don't know about soft but they certainly aren't sharp IMO.

At the end of the day, you have to do what you feel is right. :-) If we all say go ahead and feed it and something does happen you will feel bad and so will we! The best advise I can offer is do as much research on feeding barf as you can, look at all the pros and cons, and then make an informed decision based on that. I don't mean to be sitting on the fence here, but I just feel that no one has the right to say, this food is best, you should feed this way or this will happen. Does that make sense? It's like, a friend of mine asked me about vaccinating his dog. He wasn't sure if it was necessary. I use nosodes and have not vaccinated for years. As soon as I said this, he was like, oh I won't bother then! He didn't ask me why just decided that because I didn't, and nor do most of my friends, he wouldn't either. Yet I bet if I said yes, he would have done. I tried to explain then, he needs to make his own decision, not just do what I do.

HTH, or have I just confused the issue further? :-) 

You can practically cut through a chicken neck with a butter knife :) Necks and to a lesser degree,wings,contain soft cartilagey bone :)  Dictionary definition-cartilage:'Tough,elastic tissue attached to the bones of animals;gristle'

However i once bought a pack of freerange necks and the bones in these were sharp and hard,and they were absolutely massive as these were from full grown adult chickens! I never bought those again,my dogs have a habit of swallowing the necks whole and these were way to big for them to swallow safely!

Hopefully some more members will pop in with their experiences,cant just take my word for it ;)

not at all confusing

just wanted to know really if they were classed as soft bones :-) Ishall of course make my own decision on what to feed as we all should. Just after as much info from as many resources as poss. to make more of a decision

thanks
x

By soft I think you mean flexible.  Any bone can cut, even flexible ones.  (Have you every got a paper cut?  Broken a chicken wing or rib in the middle of the bone - the broken end hurts, it's sharp.)  

You cannot worry about everything, I can assure you it quickly becomes a full time occupation and pretty soon you and your dog will be eating mush and never leave the house.   :-) 

Stacey

lol you could be right, so I will do my best not to worry too much :-)

It might be worth you avoiding weight bearing bones, which by their very definition need to be stronger and tougher (ie drumsticks, thighs etc.)  I like to feed poussin and rabbit - if you chop up a rabbit the clever literally bounces back off the ribs where they are so flexible.  Even the weight bearers in a poussin are soft so I feed the whole thing - you may want to avoid ribs until you feel a little braver/confident ;) only because the bone ratio to meat is a whole lot higher - at least with a wing (for instance) if the bone is crunched it is still surrounded by meat. 
Nowadays my hound will crunch up all sorts, but in the beginning I did stick to what I believe to be the softer types :)  Chick wings, poussin and rabbit for instance.
Sarah

Lamb ribs are good for starters IMHO :) they're really small,very thin and nowhere near as tough as say pork or beef ribs :)
My dogs take all of about 2 minutes to crunh and eat a lamb rib,pork ribs can take anywhere up to 20 minutes and beef ribs are too hard,i worry my dogs will break their teeth on them!

Stacey,yeah,flexible is a more appropriate word :)