Hi
Been feeding Barf since Jan. this year so still learning ;)
As its Easter, and we are having turkey tomorrow, am I alright feeding the wings, legs and gizzard to my dogs. RAW of course!! They are used to chicken legs and wings, but just wondered. I think I'm ok to do it but wanted to hear from someone with more experience :) I will have to go careful with the offal bits I think, as it may be a bit rich all in one go. Have to give it to them sparingly.
Thanks for your help
Anne

My Beardies get turkey legs but I usually give them either one each for tea if they've missed breakfast or cut some of the meat off and one gets meat and the other gets bone/meat. I do this as the ones I can get are a bit big for my two for a single meal. If they aren't used to turkey maybe take the skin off as it is a bit rich for some dogs

Anne

Thanks for that Anne. I will probably have to do likewise as I did think there was rather  a lot for a Tibetan Terrier to scoff :) They don't actually need very much to eat at all.  I think I'll give them a wing each tomorrow and cut some meat off the legs,for Monday. give them the legs on Monday and the remains of the meat on Tuesday. Sorted :D
Will they be ok with the gizzard part as well, at some point in the next few days. I could chop that in half and give them half each. You've probably guessed, I have two TT's :D
Anne

Be warned...turkey gives my two the most DREADFUl wind :D :D

Have heard that before Mel but never had any problems. Mind you I have no sense of smell ;)

Anne

That might account for it then :D :D

my dpogs like turkey,but it does make them VERY windy!
windypops on sunday afternoon when you are watching a good film.....reminds me of xmas!!!

what i dont understand that if the dogs sense of smell is a trillion times better than ours,then WHY dont they get up & move??????

<<what i dont understand that if the dogs sense of smell is a trillion times better than ours,then WHY dont they get up & move??????>>

My boy hasn't suffered from wind since I changed him to Burns.  The problem now is that when any of us do it when he's near, he wakes from his slumber, gives us a look of disgust and gets up and goes to the other side of the room. :D :D :D

:D!
my flynn (hes a wimp) looks at us in horror if we fart,sneeze or blow a raspberry!!!! (runs & hides at raspberrys!!!)
BUT its fine if you give him a hug & he does a big bloke burp in your face!-then i swear he laughs!!!!

<I did think there was rather a lot for a Tibetan Terrier>

Cor they'd probably explode!!! :D I have Beardies the Cava bit is my big boy's name and Una was my old lady I lost last year. I have a friend with 2 TTs smashing wee dogs with big personalities, Zym my rescue boy loves playing with my friends dog

Anne

Thanks for that Melody. I'll bear it in mind :D :D It will be the first time they have had raw turkey, its always been cooked before, like at Christmas times.
I have PM'd you
Anne

Anne, what is your friends name? does she show her TT's? If so what are their full names? I might know her if she shows.
Anne

No she doesn't show they are both rescue dogs but I can't remember who bred them

Be careful with turkey bones,they are very hard.Turkey necks are the only raw bones i will not feed,have personally had, and have heard of a few choking incidences with turkey necks. I also rarely feed weight bearing bones,drumsticks etc. as they tend to be hard and brittle also :(

By all means feed em',but just keep a close eye on your dogs to make sure they dont gulp them down as some dogs find them too hard to chew down,so they swallow them whole,especially the wee fella's.

Thanks for that Rose. I will be very careful. Are they harder than lamb scrag end bones then? The roundish ones with bone in the middle and meat all around. I do give them those without any misadventures. Well up to now anyway ;) I might just let them have a bit of a chew at them and get the meat off, and ther take them away from them before they get too far down to the bone bit
Love Anne

Turkey is fine, I feed it regularly, it takes my dog 2 mins to demolish a 750 gramme Turkey drumstick (raw).

As for weight bearing bones, well turkeys are not that old so you really don't have to worry.  Lamb and Beef are older and bigger and generally the bigger leg bones are purely for recreation.

Thanks for that Tohme.
They did actually get the legs at Easter with no bad after effects :D So I won't have any hestitation in giving them again. As they are quite large in meat quantity though they'll only get them if its a bone day, with no other meal. How about the neck/gizzard bit. Am I ok to give those whole or should I smash/blitz them up.
Thanks Anne

That is the one part ofn theh body 'i do not feed............

Why would that be tohme?

Well, my Giant Schnauzer demolishes a turkey neck just as quickly, if not more so, than a chicken wing, so I can't really see what the worry is there.In fact, I haven't bothered buying the turkey necks from AMP for a while, because they are too soft to offer her teeth much of a challenge! (After all, the necks have a lot of cartillage around them.) Unless your dog is very small, you don't need to cut them up, they will be crunched up just like chicken wings.
She had her first turkey leg tonight (courtesy of our friendly butcher, who is trying to bribe his way into my dog's good books, but still she wants to eat him! ), and after staring at it for a while she tucked in and it was gone in a few minutes. A lamb's leg bone takes a lot longer than that, so I can't really see how a turkey leg would be particularly hard.
I personally believe that dogs are designed to eat bones and meat, and we should just leave them to get on with it and not worry too much- provided the bones are fresh and raw. My dog gives up and leaves the bone if she finds it too much hard work (that princess, ha-ha!) and I would worry a lot more about knotted raw hide, for example, than a fresh bone. (has anyone seen a dog trying to swallow a whole knot?)

ps. Annedee; I wonder if you were referring to what I call "leg bones" (they love me at the butcher's, I am so well articulated! :D  ). If so, they are much harder than turkey, in fact those offer  some challenge to the Giant jaws- it is more like an "intermediate" recreational bone, before graduating to the massive beef bones. (which my princess won't bother with, too lazy apparently...) They are great for cleaning the teeth, I find.

Can`t speak for Thome, but if her answer is to turkey necks must say its one of the very, very few things that my dogs have never got on with. Used to feed them but they would bring them back up & had difficulty chewing/swallowing them for some reason. Never went into the ins or outs & after several trys with the same results decided not to give them anymore. Whole legs/thighs they do very well with but only if from small turkeys as large ones are just too big an amount, over here they weigh on average over 1 kilo.

Chrisrine, Spain.

same here with turkey necks,they went down whole and came up the same way.My dogs sometimes do this with chicken necks but they then chew them more carefully and eat them again,they wont do this with turkey necks

Some dogs do just fine with them,but alot do not,i'm not sure why??

I don't feed necks because IMHO it is like putting a stopper in a bottle.....

Thanks girls for all the advise. I think to be safe I'll steer clear of the necks then. TT's have pretty strong jaws, and they are certainly a lot stronger now with eating bones :D but I think to be on the safe side I'll not give them.
Scampi. How's your G. Schnauzer? How old is she? and where is she from? sorry to appear nosy, but we had one before TT's. A beautiful male. We lost him through bone cancer when he was just 8 years old. Worst Xmas of my life. He was diagnosed in the Nov. and had to be PTS in the Jan. Awful. I still weep sometimes when I think about him. I'd have another one tomorrow if I could have one to choose, with a tail on, and could show it without getting penalised in the ring for having a tail!!
But thats another issue and I aren't starting a debate ;)
Anne

Why do these posting get narrower as the page gets further down ??
Anne