Feeding your dog raw food

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Raw chicken wings, huh? Okay, I'm going to try this too. My dogs already get a raw egg everyday - they have beautiful coats as a result. Champ & Bella, the indoor crew get one on top of their evening meal. Scooby gets one with either breakfast or dinner, but he steals them if I forget and set down my basket before I make it into the house with them - one day he ate 2 dozen :lol: It wasn't really funny at the time.
 

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Just put 'em on the cutting board and whack 'em with the back of a cleaver or something to crush the bones a bit the first few times you feed them. Dogs are used to swallowing prepared foods whole, and a whole wing taken in one gulp is not good.

It depends on the size of the dog. I once bought frozen wing segments when I couldn't find whole wings (probably like today, no wings to be found....Superbowl Sunday! The boy are getting hearts and gizzards today!) and that was a problem....gulping-sized for my poodle. He has to chew and break the bones on the whole wings. I had the same problem with him with necks.
 

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SO now that we've had some talk on INPUT - can someone tell me about the OUTPUT?

I've heard dogs poop less, not as stinky, and dryer than dogs fed on a commercial feed. Is this true? what have you found?
 

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Absolutely! Small, dark, hard turds that mostly get washed into the grass with a hard rain, unlike the huge masses of undigested corn in the average stinking dog poo.

The mild "constipation" is normal, this helps express the anal glands, more so than a corn-fed diet.

They tend to drink less water than a kibble-fed dog.
 

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freemotion said:
Absolutely! Small, dark, hard turds that mostly get washed into the grass with a hard rain, unlike the huge masses of undigested corn in the average stinking dog poo.

The mild "constipation" is normal, this helps express the anal glands, more so than a corn-fed diet.

They tend to drink less water than a kibble-fed dog.
Fantastic, thats probably the best darn benifit to raw feeding. I hate stinky pasty dog poo...

I did notice a little bit of change after feeding the chicken wings for a couple of days, before we got the beef. And her poop was darker, smaller and looked harder - I didn't get too close, I can not take the smell of dog poop... but it did look different.
 

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freemotion said:
Absolutely! Small, dark, hard turds that mostly get washed into the grass with a hard rain, unlike the huge masses of undigested corn in the average stinking dog poo.

The mild "constipation" is normal, this helps express the anal glands, more so than a corn-fed diet.

They tend to drink less water than a kibble-fed dog.
My dogs water consumption on the raw food is so much less. I was worried for a while then I read that there is so much water in the raw food they don't need as much water. Now that I had to put one dog on dry, even though it is a freeze dried raw food, she drinks more water. Their poop turns to a white powder after a day. It is great.
 

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I'm excited to get started after my next shopping trip - Bulldogs are notorious for the gas they produce and Champ can certainly clear a room. :th
I think I have also mentioned on another thread, Champ is epileptic and although he is on some pretty heavy duty meds, his epilepsy has thusfar not been controlled. Maybe changing his diet will help. If I could get him to drink less water, that would be great too - but unfortunately, excessive thirst is one of the side effects of his meds.
Because he has a tendency to scarf his food down, I definitely would break up the bones as much as possible. This dog does not chew, maybe due to his nearly 2" underbite. It's hard for him to keep dry kibble in his mouth at all and he flings it around EVERYWHERE when he eats. I bet a RAW diet is exactly what he needs.
 

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My poor girl wasn't feeling well yesterday, she threw up four times :th
I did give her some leftover stew in the morning, and that might have been the problem, she chewed a couple of bones after that then the throwing up started, and she didn't eat anything till this afternoon when she went back to her bone. I'm hoping it was just a little glitch in the system, perhaps eating too much or the new food on her tummy didn't sit well.
 
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