Morning all,

I don't usually feed raw - my dogs are on ND - but decided to give them a treat for breakfast this morning.  Bought a breast of lamb from the butcher and gave them a third each.  My goodness, I have never seen food disappear so quickly!  :) :) :) The final third will be given for tonight's dinner, along with some left over cooked chicken and a bit of ND.  My question is, is there any harm in giving a mixture of things like this?  They'll be back to plain ND tomorrow, but am leaning towards buying some mince or tripe to pep up the interest.  Only have a little room in the freezer though, so can't purchase too much.  Piggin' American side by side FF's - the freezer is just too small, and there's only two of us, and there's nowhere for a little "dogs" freezer to go :(

Another question - what other bones apart from marrow can anyone recommend.  Marrow bones give my two the squits.....:( - and not sure what else to give.  I have some lamb shoulder in the freezer which they can have - anything else?  How about frozen rabbit? :)

Morning Ma'am :)

Breast of lamb will be much enjoyed by most!  Providing their tums aren't easily upset (if you don't know yet you'll find out soon enough :D ) it won't do them any harm having a mix of raw and complete - particularly as you're feeding a wet complete.  Feeding dry and raw at the same meal, the raw food is digested at a different rate (quicker) - having said that I add raw tripe most days to the complete my lot get.

Re bones someone more au fait with that than me can probably advise better but certainly rabbit is perfectly OK and a few people I know feed them (I couldn't - we had a bunny called Penelope for 9 1/2 years so just doesn't seem right :rolleyes: :P )

Teri   

Thanks Teri - looks like they'll be getting a really nice dinner then!  They lurve me today......... :D :D :D

I feed all bones...some of my lots favs are...
pigs trotters
ribs
chicken carcasses
Theres no bones they can't eat....have fun trying out new things...they will :d
Archer

I've got a friendly butcher Nikki, so I'm def gonna try a few more.  Pigs trotters look favourite.  If I give a trotter in the evening, should this be instead of their meal, or should I just cut the meal down, or do nothing at all?

Thanks - BTW, how's the new baby?  Lennon is 10 months next week - I can't believe he's been here over 4 months, it feels like he's always been here :D

Weekend treat for my girl is a sheep's head - half on Saturday and half on Sunday.  She absolutely loves it but I don't particularly like 'em looking at me!

Oh I couldn't! Drumsticks are about as much as I can cope with. :( Anything else has disarsterous consiquences on the dogs rear ends anyway! :p

I would suggest that for rabbit you find someone who shoots or a farmer. Most fields in this area are over run with rabbits and people that shoot them generally have far more than they know what to do with (most game dealers will give less than 50p per carcas) So it is a really cheep way to feed your dogs meat. They can eat the lot, although I remove the skin and always cut open the stomach to check their internal organs for cysts etc and I try not to feed anything that looks a bit 'mixy'. Same goes for pigeon, which I skin and are again about 50p each. Also during the game shooting season mine get a lot of birds that are too badly damaged for the keeper to sell to a game dealer or for humans to want to eat.  

If you are worried about parasites freezing will help to destroy them and since these things tend to come in gluts it will help to even things out a bit. If you are short on freezer space mincing the whole carcas makes it take up less room ;)