I have read loads of posts to say that dogs love raw chicken wings.  As my dog has been in the kennels for a couple of days I thought that I would treat him and went out especially and bought him some chicken wings.  He just does not seem interested in it - he has licked it a few times and then just leaves it.  He absolutely loves cooked chicken so why is he not eating it?  I have tried all sorts into coxing him to eat it - tried chopping it up etc.  Any suggestions as I now have a freezer full of the rest of them!

Our lot get the occassional chicken wing/leg/neck and at first were a bit apprehensive, not really sure what they were meant to do but I found the simplest thing to do was hold the wing or whatever and encourage the dog to crunch on it a few times, they soon got the idea :D

Saying that, at Christmas my family got quite a large turkey and before it went in the oven we took off the wings and kept the neck and giblets....all 3 of our dogs relish eating raw meaty bones but the 2 younger ones didn't seem too keen on the turkey wings or the giblets, it was our 'fussy' 7 year old who loved them the most! But it only my 13 month old is the only one who will eat raw eggs...dogs like different things, some more than others but perservere...its very satisfying watching, and listening, to a dog crunching on a chicken wing!!

ever since i first gave my pup a chicken leg she doesnt know what to do with it. I gave her a wing tonight funnily enough and she did the same as before, licked it a bit, and generally gets quite stressed over where she should keep it. i should imagine they soon get used to it, im gonna try mine a few more times over next couple of weeks and if she doesnt take to them ill give up. i dont like peas and no matter how many different ways someone tried to make me like them it would never happen! im trying to find a butchers that sells marrow bones at the mo, hopefully she may enjoy that more.

Hi, you could try taking the skin off.  One of my RRs didn't seem to like the texture so I did that - just to start with.  Once yours gets the hang of it, leave the skin on.

i bought some frozen chicken wings from the supermarket the other day and i havnt tried my lab with them yet.i was wondering if i had to thaw them first or if i could give them frozen as i heard this from somewhere but wanted to make sure
thanks gill

Raw can be fed frozen or thawed :)

When you go on holiday somewhere exotic and someone offers something that you don't like the look of or you are unsure of the ingredients, or they have told you that it is something that you cannot bring yourself to eat, then you never have the opportunity to discover if it is indeed something that you might like, nay even adore :D

Dogs that have never been given the opportunity to see/taste/smell raw food are often the same way.

Remember they have probably been fed the same diet day in and day out (which is what everyone seems to recommend) :rolleyes: and so anything that looks different is often treated with a great deal of suspicion (funny that they don't feel that way about manure.......) :D

Also commercial food is far more highly flavoured (always has added salt for this purpose) and so raw food can appear bland and less appealing (just as most kids prefer chips to boiled spuds).

Some dogs take time (a dog I rehomed spent 3 days just looking at chicken wings and saying "you cannot possibly expect me to eat that" and thereafter inhaled them in seconds), some like to play with it or bury it.

If you give them in addition to their daily diet then the less experimental dogs may not try it at all, if however they are given instead of a meal, hunger may spur them on.

At the end of the day it is not after all essential that they eat them if you are only providing them as a treat, sometimes bashing them with a rolling pin, warming them up, just SEARING the outside momentarily in a pan or covering them with garlic etc may tempt the finicky.

I think your key word is "coax" I find that if anyone tries to coax me to eat anything I am more likely to be suspicious; you can create desire in dogs, like children, by almost taking the opposite effect......... ;)

You can feed bones frozen, or not.

Can dogs get sick from raw chicken wings. Only ask because as you may remember from my first post I gave one to my dog as he had been in the kennels for a couple of days (came home Monday).  Since then he has had diarrhea and been sick quite a lot.  It could be one of a few things.  We currently feed him Nature Diet and the kennels said that we are not feeding him enough.  He, being a Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier - adult, weighing about 18.5-19 Kgs. We normally give him a pack a day together with a few treats and sometimes a little bit of Nutro to mix in.  For the two days that he was in the kennels they doubled it, giving him two packs a day.  When I brought him home I noticed his poo was a bit loose and quite pongy. Did not think anything of this and tried giving him the chicken wing which he licked, had a nibble and then left it, so did not have a vast quantity.  Later I then gave him a whole pack of Nature Diet, to carry on the theme from the kennels - he loved it and chomped it down without it touching the sides!  The next morning my husband came down to find that he had pooed and been sick on the kitchen floor (all of the Nature Diet with a few carrots added in!). No food that morning then!  My husband left him to go to work and he had the dog walker that day. When my husband came home he found that he had been sick and pooed again. Again no food in the evening as we've been told in the past to starve dogs on these occassions. He was okay last night - we kept on popping down to see him so both very tired!  Been okay today, apart from still having runny pooh's and just now he was sick again! Will have to call vets tomorrow as this does not seem right. Wonder whether he picked up something at the kennels - he's vaccinated against kennel cough but I know does not totally cover him, was it that he was over-fed on Nature Diet or could it be the chicken wing!  Sorry this post is so long but I want to work out whats wrong with him

Generally speaking in healthy, non immuno compromised dogs raw food does not pose a problem to dogs as that is what they were designed to eat after all.

Salmonella, e-coli, campylobacter, neosporis caninum and giardia are a but a few things that COULD come from eating raw food, however all of these can be contracted from other sources by completely commercially fed dogs.

I would stop speculating and get your dog down to the vet.

We went to the Vets this evening and he's been given a course of antibiotics, including a medicine to line his stomach.  We'll see how he gets on.

Thanks for all the help/advice:)

Tohme, do you just give them the whole wing, bones and all?  Not cut up or anything?  Just like it comes out of the package?  Forgive my ignorance here but I have been thinking about mixing in some raw or home cooked with my kibble.

I have been lurking here for awhile and almost hate to ask feeding questions as it always seems to become such a tussle.

Whole wing, bone n all, yep.

If your dog struggles to chew, swallows whole and throws it up again (its not poisonous its just often a dogs stomach knows better what will fit in it, than a dogs brain does), then perhaps bashing it with a hammer first and hanging on to one end whilst he learns to chew would be a good idea.

Your dog sounds as if the kennels may have OVERfed him, certainly large soft pongy poo's would suggest that to me.

You can feed raw food and complete foods,but dont mix them in the same meal as the two digest at a different rate, whatever takes longer to digest will be swept along with the faster digested food nad come out a lot like itwent in, which is a waste of food if nothing else.

Em

How does every one feel at this moment regarding giving raw meat (especially birds) and eggs with the bird flu and the family who have died with it?

I must admit it is worrying me at the moment and I did advise my new puppy owners to feed their pups this.

But the flu`s not caught by actually eating chickens or eggs is it :)

I have no problems feeding raw meat as, as far as I know the bird flu has not mutated to infect species other than man at the moment.

As for chickens and eggs, well there is no evidence that bird flu has infected any of the stock in the UK, the nearest to us it has come so far is the eastern part of Turkey and the children who died from suspected  type of bird flu which is of concern were infected by living very close to poultry........

I am not aware that dogs and or humans can be infected via home produced, dead, plucked, gutted birds.................

i have no plans to stop feeding chicken or eggs either to my dogs or myself yet......

Mine have just crunched their way through their daily portions of chicken wings, I havent stopped feeding them either, yes Diane even licky puppy boy gobbles them up instantly, although his are still bashed up with a rolling pin first, they hear that banging noise and all start going crazy.
Jenny

Besides chicken & eggs are in tinned/dry dog foods as well.

Just carry & stop worrying :)

You are probably right about the kennels over feeding him.  I phoned them before I took the dog to the vets and asked if there was anything that had happened to him while he was there.

They phoned me back today and confirmed that they had doubled his feed, which I was aware of.  The thing that I did not know (and most importantly) was that they did not give him Chicken & Tripe Naturediet which I had specifically asked for (he's never had any of the others) - but they fed him on Lamb Naturediet (and double at that!)

On speaking to Naturediet today they confirmed that he could have easily had an upset tummy as the Lamb variety is a lot more fatty and rich than the Chicken & Tripe variety.  A bit like switching your dogs food without the introducing it slowly approach.  So my £50 trip to the vets could/maybe have been avoided if they had given him what I asked for in the first place!  Next time he's going with his own supplies!:rolleyes:

I know that this might not be the whole reason why he was ill but its a start.  He seems to have got his appetite back already - only been on antibiotics since last night and eating the vet's bland food - he's following us around hoping that we might drop some of our dinner or be so kind as to give him some!  He does not realise that we are thinking of his best interests and doing what the vet told us to do. We don't want to go back to square one!

So my £50 trip to the vets could/maybe have been avoided if they had given him what I asked for in the first place!  Next time he's going with his own supplies!
i think by what you have said about changing the food without consulting you(If they didnt have in what you have told them he eats they should have told you before you left him) AND doubling his food(They are paid to do what you stipulated. If they thought he was not being fed enough they should have consulted you NOt DOUBLED the food in one fowl swoop without your knowledge :( )
If i took my dogs and they did that they certainly would get a ticking off off me and my dogs would not be going back!!!!
You should change the kennels he goes to :(
Lea :)

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