Aye, it might be that my dog has a sensitive gut - she'll eat anything including dead stuff she finds washed up on the beach, most of it she's fine with (including a spider crab that was obviously putrid) but some stuff causes a reaction. Just something to watch out for with "soft" modern dogs
Not at all ! Per pound in weight dealer payments for carcass its about even but of course if you could ask the dogs I seriously doubt they would vote for commercial dog food !
I get called out to a few RTA and I am asked by some of the people who show me where the deer are do you ever take them home. My answer is always the same NO I don't know if there was anything wrong with the deer before it was hit by the vehicle and it could have been the reason that it got hit in the first place.
too much liver is very bad as it creates deficiencies via overdose i believe . lil' bit of liver is great for dogs generally though imo . Used to love it myself but its too much faff and doesnt freeze well , there is also the fact that one stalkers breakfast and one small jar of pate is enough for anyoneWhenever I bring a deer home to butcher the dog (Working Cocker) knows he's in for a treat. All the good bits are for me and Lady Longstrider, but scraps go straight to the dog and anything that doesn't look worth mincing is cubed and cooked before being frozen in small quantities ready to add to his usual fare of tinned and kibble. Never had a problem with him getting the squirts doing this. Liver is too rich for him (the experiment had poor results, as above) so I leave it out of the equation.
Last weekend I finished up the butchering on a fallow and was busy bagging up the meat and noticed that the dog was (most unusually) not by my feet. Turned to see the little $£*^" dragging the remains of the skeleton around the lawn
Roadkill, whether just seen, or those that I've been called out to 'deal with' NEVER gets taken home for us or the dog. We're not so short of feed that we need to take a risk with it.
yeah ! A full liver from one large deer will be enough to last 1 year and that's the issue " you just cannot use it all " because of the quantity you can feed a dog safely
My dogs eat lots of liver, it's a staple part of their diet.
talk to your vet , "lots" is actually an unquantifiable measure . Too much is real bad though
My vet also happens to advocate the kibble they sell and don't believe in raw feed yet always compliment the dogs because of their energy levels, condition and coats
Simply pointing out that liver although good has a clear risk of too much and folks should be aware . I feed raw venison very frequently but the only liver i feed is oven dried in smaller "treat" type amounts. " lots" just sounds very dogy but like i say is unqualifiable to do with a vitamin overdose - creating a deficiency ?My vet also happens to advocate the kibble they sell and don't believe in raw feed yet always compliment the dogs because of their energy levels, condition and coats
It's done off a BARF calculator, I can't remember exactly what it is now but it's a baseline that gets chopped and changed depending on the dogs individual needs. They ultimately need offal in their food to keep the balance when raw fed
I gotcha, most liver the dogs have is frozen. We used to do around a 1/2 - 3/4kilo of liver a month, give or take, between 3 dogs and whichever was stalking with me got a slice of a deer liver and the rest went for breakfast/dinner for me
That's the problems with Labs they have no class. On a shoot day and a Labrador in front of all the quest shooters spewed it's ring up, what it brought up nobody could make out. Keeper called for the beaters Spaniels the accident was cleared up ( burp) quick sticks
