Giving dog raw untouched deer ribs? What about smoking them?

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I know you're not supposed to give dogs cooked bones due to the cooking process causing bones to shard rather than scrape. Is there any reason not to toss raw untrimmed ribs or femur from the deer, meaty bits and marrow and all, for the dog?

What about putting them in the smoker so they're a little less messy, any tips on how to do this without cooking the bones? Or at least a dehydrator?

I've got a freezer full of ribs and big bones from last season that I forgot about....not sure what to do with them!
 
150F on a pellet grill and never paid much attention to time. Works for my dogs, dries bones up and is hot enough to kill most bacteria.
 
I feed my dogs bones from deer, beaver, moose , all the time no problems ,
They love when we get something at hunting season,
Never fed them Trespasser bones don’t want them To get any thing from them !!
 
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With our former dog, was almost a daily treat to get cooked pork rib bones - several neighbours here saved the bones for our dog. And steak bones. Gnawed at, crunched and consumed completely. Do not know where you got the part about never feeding cooked bones? We never did, and still do not, feed poultry bones - cooked or raw - to our pets - dogs and cats - had heard the same concerns about turning into sharp needles - but, to be honest, do not remember where we first heard about that. But as posted, nothing that is a radical change to a pet's diet is "good" - if it is a city dog or in-house dog that only eats dried processed dog food, not going to really want to change that... Maybe "over-kill", but we even go to extent of blending over several days to change the cats from one brand of feed, to another brand.

At least for these ones - the cats are regularly bringing in their nightly catches and eating them - birds, mice, once a weasel. The dog stole and later ate the bush rabbit that the cat(s) caught and dragged in. So maybe we fuss too much about what we feed the critters here. Current dog is exclusively on dried processed dog food - except for part of cheddar cheese slices that she begs from me, when I'm making my daily lunch sandwiches!!!
 
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53moose320Elk said:
I feed my dogs bones from deer, beaver, moose , all the time no problems ,
They love when we get something at hunting season,
Never fed them Trespasser bones don’t want them To can’t get any thing from them !!
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I second the beaver carcass. Best food a dog can eat. Trespassers not so much
 
Raw bones are great for dogs, had an old shepherd/pit bull cross that would gnaw beef knuckle bones down to nothing. Our current three dogs always get raw deer femur and rib bones to eat outside, no bones allowed in the house lol.
 
Have three scrounging hounds in the house and about the place that look forward to fall as they know when a deer comes in the yard life is good.

German Shepherd, chi-pug cross and a snoodle. Buggers will bury them for a week or so for seasoning and they work on the bits over the winter and by spring everything is cleaned up around the yard. Barn cats get the scrap trim.

The whole bunch gets pork,chicken, beef bones from dinner and in 50 years of dogs have never seen a dog have ill effects if they start young on the diet. Little dogs have to be limited but the hounds, shepherds and 57's all get the leavins'. Like anything your choice but the look on the Shepherd's face when a turkey carcass goes out to the barn for the cats is classic, she knows that come morning, its mine!! LOL
 
My malamute wolf cross would.eat the ribs all the way the the spine..
For some reason he had a hard time digesting the knuckle of the elbows.. I used to cut those off.. after finding them puked up on the floor.. just the cartilage would come back up.. everything else.was digested.
You're right, it's a little.messy. no Biggy.
Boiled would be cleaner but more work.
 
My dogs only get raw food, including all types of uncooked bones. We've never fed our pups cooked bones though, they become brittle and can be deadly to a dog.
 
Usually the only bones from a deer that were not saved for the dogs, was the backbone and skull.
A deer rib each, was a pretty special treat, and they'd crunch through one pretty quick. Even my Italian Greyhound got some of that action.
About my only worry would be the chance of them picking up a parasite from a fresh bone. After they have been in the freezer a while, not so much.
 
My dogs get the raw ribs, hoofs, fat, heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and skulls every deer season. usually took a day or two for the bull mastiff to finish off the skull. they would only ever leave the antlers and the teeth. Only thing i don't feed them is the stomach and the bladder.

Used to raise rabbits specifically for dog food. remove the bladder and stomach, and let the dog eat them whole. fur and all. usually gone in less than a couple of min.
 
It seems every year that we are butchering a moose or deer the muts always sneak a few scraps even though we try to keep them out of it. I can also guarantee that there will be a pile of dog barf somewhere before the sun goes down. We always hope it is before the dogs come in the house. I guess some dogs can handle it but I think those that are fed premium dog food don't have a stomach for anything natural.
 
The dead rotted stuff my 3 dogs find and drag home out of the bush weekly, then chew and consume would rival what the average wolf does. This despite being fed a good premium dog food with goodies my wife adds to it twice daily. Whatever doesn't seem to sit well with their digestive tract usually gets barfed up on the bed room carpet at night. One of my labs years ago chewed up and ate 4 Bic disposable razors blades and all, he died of old age related disorders 12 years later. Some dogs tolerate changes and oddities to their diets and digestive tracts far more than others. Perhaps my dogs have just been lucky over the years, hard to say.
 
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