HI does anyone feed pork ribs to their dogs i have been reading IB give your dog a bone and am just wondering anyone does as i have been a bit afraid as sometimes pork can be a bit salty and i dont know how digestible the bones are many thanks karen 

Hi yes I feed my girls pork ribs :)

Pork is only salty when it has been cured and so you are alright with just normal pork :)

Yep, pork ribs are a regular feature in the diet of my two as well :)

Thanks for that i did not think about pork being salty because of curing (how daft if that) i will defiantly try them now as i say i was playing on the side of caution karen

I also give mine trotters which they really enjoy :D

Shay likes trotters too :)  When I offered one to Lola she just looked at me like I'd lost the plot :rolleyes: 

did you give them raw or cooked x x

Bones should only be given raw. 

I know that what i should have said was raw or dried sorry about that

No problem - I'd think raw and fresh was best, less likelihood of splintering

I give them raw :)

Pork ribs are one of the favourite of my raw fed girl

HI do you break them first or let them have them as they are karen

My Dobe has the whole rack of ribs just as it is

Sometimes I cut them in single ribs as she is a bit of a madam, as she never uses her paws to eat the meaty bones, she just seems to hate touching food:rolleyes:.  She ahppily holds the Nylabone with her paws when she chews that one, but the real bones she won't touch with her paws...funny isn't it???  So to make things easier for her I sometimes cut them in single ribs instead of giving her a 200gr rack.  And she really enjoys them.

Hi what breed do you have?. Do you feed her chicken carcases? As mine liked them but someone had said that their may not be enough meat on them

I have got a Welsh Springer Spaniel, 19 months old.    I don't feed chicken carcasses, but buy economy chicken portions in Farmfoods.  They cost £0.97 per kilo and they are very meaty.  Saying that, I wonder how that is ethically and I ordered chicken wings from the company where I get the minced stuff from.  It is not a problem to feed "bony" chicken carcasses, as long as you just give more meat otherwise.  I mean, it is said you should feed 30-50% raw meaty bones, where the emphasis is on meaty.  But when the meaty bone more bony than meaty is, so to speak, than just give 20%.  I get lamb bones from Morrison, they are very cheap, £0.35 per kilo, but they have very little meat on them, so I just give her only 100gr less meaty bone instead of 200gr quite meaty bone and give more minced meat.  Does my rambling on make sense?  I wonder:rolleyes:.

>I wonder how that is ethically

I don't think you really need to wonder :)

>I wonder how that is ethically

If meat is cheap to buy, it's been produced cheaply. If it's been produced cheaply, the welfare of the animal was probably not the prime concern. :(

>If meat is cheap to buy, it's been produced cheaply. If it's been produced cheaply, the welfare of the animal was probably not the prime concern. :-(

Thats what i've always said about commercial food! If you can get a 15kg bag of food for around £15 or less than the chances are the quality of  that food and it's ingredients reflects the cheap price.

Do you mean cruelly reared grains ;)
Do you only feed free range meats or foods made from free range meats?

The difference in nutritional quality of cheaply produced or expensively produced meat has been scientifically shown to be minimal. It's only really the moral welfare aspect of it that varies.

erudio est universus :)

HI thanks for that bagpipe it is interesting to know about different places to get meat from be it farmfoods or tesco  economy portions i am sure that they enjoy it all the same x karen