Hello,
We are just cooking up our Sunday dinner - roast duck. As it came with giblets we decided to make some giblet stock. So (as we are following a recipe book) after much recollection of anatomy :-D we removed the liver and are now cooking the neck and other bits.

Anyway, firstly am I OK to give the dogs the cooked neck and giblets?? Secondly are the dogs allowed the raw liver - they are going slightly mad over the smell :-). Should note that neither of my boys eat raw meat and one of my boys has a particularly sensitive digestive system (he got really bad bloody runs from a bone as he ate too much bone marrow and his body could not cope with whatever is in it - that I can't remember at this time, is it iron??)
Thanks
GG

NO to the cooked neck, Yes to the raw liver and the cooked others if you are sure there are no bones in them :)

I love the cooked liver myself from duck and chickens.....yummy.

Well we have had our dinner and it was delicious, cooked to perfection. ;-D
Anyway, do any of the giblet bits have lots of iron that would make my older dog ill so I can avoid these bits for him???
Raw liver is not raw any more - OH cooked it for the dogs whilst my back was turned :rolleyes:
Thanks
GG

Liver is very, very rich in iron. I thought it was the high fat content of bone marrow which causes the runs, but if your dog is sensitive to iron I wouldn't give him liver.

Thankyou, Im sure they will love it and think that christmas has come again!! :-D :-D
GG

I disagree - cooked neck is fine without the bones.

It's very hard to get all the bones out though as some are very small. All bones should only ever be fed uncooked as the cooking process causes bones to become brittle and they will splinter into very sharp shards which can cause great damage.

Easier still is to throw the neck, cooked or uncooked, into your stock pot with all the other leftover duck bits and make stock.  Refrigerate till fat layer on top is solid, remove fat and share with dogs.

Well the dogs did enjoy the giblets, put it on top of their dinner and it disappeared quite fast :-D
However, our pup (well the younger one) has been ill all day :-( He had me up at 4:00 this morning as he was not at all well :-( Probably just coincidence and he had eaten something else that he should not have done. No food for him today
Thanks for all your help
GG

Too much liver is renowned for giving the squits When I first started feeding my Dobe raw he could only tolerate a tiny piece of liver (a couple of teaspoons if that), but now he can handle much more although I'm still careful not to overdo it because of the high vitamin A content. 

Hope he feels better soon!

We hardly gave them any liver and only gave them half of the giblets between them as I did not want to chance it :-(
Oh well, it wil be an interesting night
GG