Deer bones
- Thread starter Killzone
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Your statement doesn't make sense. Of course you never hear of it when a wolf or coyote dies from a twisted bowel. However, that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. We do hear about when it happens to pets or people. It happened to my dog. He was dead in two days. My vet has seen it many times. Bones can kill dogs. Raw or cooked.
I believe in the barf diet myself. The kibble I was buying was $85 for about 30lb, for about half of that I now feed raw. They get whole chickens for a treat but the staple is ground chicken carcasses mixed with raw ground fruit and vegetables. If your worried about the bones, find a butcher that will grind it for you. Chicken is the healthiest overall but variety is good. More bone than meat is the way to go, necks, heads, backs and feet. The butcher I go to in uxbridge sells it ready to go as dog food, really cheap and healthier than even the best kibble. If you can do it your self even better.
my dogs just love the rib cage of all the deer we get . thy also enjoy the hoves . when i run out of hoves i buy them at pet stores thy have cow hoves . thy last the dog a long time and thy realy enjoy chewing on them . i know see the pet store is selling chuncks of horn for ogs to chew DUTCH
I adopted a 5 yr old lab, who ate nothing but dogfood and rawhide bones all his life. That was the first thing to change when I got him home. The first couple days after he started on a deer subsidized diet, he had the ####s something fierce. but after that he's been fine and loves his treats.
I bone out all my deer, then use a bandsaw to trim up the bones into snack sized pcs.
I bone out all my deer, then use a bandsaw to trim up the bones into snack sized pcs.
diesel_weasel666
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My mutt and golden retriever get all the bones and scraps(tendons, bloodshot meat, deer dongs ect) and have never had a problem. My standard poodle on the other hand gets a nasty case of bazooka butt from scraps, never again. The dogs got a rare treat this season when the bullet tumbled through the heart of one of my kills, thus making it unfit for the stew pot.
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When i had dogs they'd go crazy when my dad or i came back with a deer, they'd run off with a leg bone, skin and all and go bury it for later, they'd even run off with the skulls if we left one unattended.
They also ran away with antlers, good thing i never shot a real trophy
They also ran away with antlers, good thing i never shot a real trophy
I don't come across too many coyote or fox skeletons in the spring when I'm shed hunting, but I won't say it doesn't happen. A person can kill a cow by feeding it too much barley or a human can die from eating a peanut or shellfish. It doesn't mean it will happen every time.
Who knows, I've had plenty of dogs aged anywhere from 3 yrs to 17 yrs and eating bones didn't cause death in any of them. Like I said, I don't come across too many coyote or fox skeletons in the spring when I'm shed hunting.
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I have a friend that almost lost his dog to some type of illness after letting him eat too much fat off a deer carcass and trimmings.
Ah, yes the old 'dogs are basically wolves' argument. How many of us have seen a pack of Chihuahua's bring down a deer? 'nuff said...
Here is a link of the diseases we can contract from wildlife, some of them will affect dogs too. Dogs can get tapeworms from deer. Google echinococcus for example.
http://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eirs/fini...c34Pb41ynknvrkLOlQzNp65In0?subdocumentId=7742
Dogs have evolved from wolves/coyotes. They never ate "dogfood" until pretty recently. I've never had a problem with my dogs eating bones of any sort over the years, but my old collie/shepard cross pukes if he eats too much deer, table scraps, etc. My purebred shepard never has any issues, I give him everything I don't eat. Gotta love watching him drag carcasses away to bury!
My Cheseapeak just died after 19 years. And she ate at least 4 deer legs a year, usually more (its not often we only get one deer.) She also ate a couple of moose legs at least every other year (we're not always as lucky with moose hunting.) Basically she was happy as a pig-in-#### to scarf down whatever carcass scraps she could make off with.
It's not the diet that kills off wolves and coyotes early... it's living in the elements and fighting for food/position, instead of living in climate controlled house and being hand fed like a pet.
