Deer bones & Dogs.

[Sol]

What are the best bones to toss them? I was seeing in the thread below where people mentioned weight bearing bones can be Iffy but shoulders etc are fine.
Wanted to give them some leg bones but after seeing the thread might not unless there's 99% safe ones.

Will probably be roe deer If that makes any difference! and no skull, I'll be keeping that (Shall be my first deer!)

 

[shakey jake]

ive never worried my dogs get all bones including heads, spaniels eats any thing he can geg in his mouth, hooves and lower leg still in the fur

 

[TundB]

My dog gets everything including head and lower part of legs in the skin.

 

[nun_hunter]

Mine gets all but the weight bearing bones because he has strong enough jaws to splinter them into long sharp shards so although he could be ok it's not a risk (and cost) I want to take. He had a fallow pelvis today and he's been chewing on it all day and by the time the kids were home from school it was all chewed up and gone.

 

[scotch_egg]

As I don’t feed what is commonly referred to as BARF and whole bone is a treat. Bearing in mind my Labrador is 10 months I limit to one lower limb a week.

The stories of impacted bowl when over feeding small bones are worrying.

 

[John Gryphon]

spaniels eats any thing he can geg in his mouth, hooves and lower leg still in the fur

Perfect healthy diet.

including head and lower part of legs in the skin

As above.

My own dogs as I have replied many times before live 'off the gun' basically and get any part of a deer that I don`t want.
I mentioned on Good Friday that I gave my young dog a spikey head and full neck in the hide..prob weighed 30-40lbs....its all gone except for the skull cap.....hide, the lot has been turned.

 

[FISH BOY]

Only lower legs for mine - loves the toe nails!

Mainly fallow and roe as I’ve stopped giving him Muntie, as he tries to eat them whole.

Loves them from the freezer in the summer to cool him down.

 

[StephenToast]

Mine have had every part of the skeleton from at one time or another.

I always wince when I see them crapping teeth... I wonder if that's where the phrase "coming back to bite me on the arse" comes from?

Anyway. Most people seem to say not to feed the weight bearing bones which I suppose is good advice although it's never caused mine a problem.

Also the current advice appears to be not to feed antler... Although mine do have antler chews without trouble up until now I'll probably stop giving them to them in favour of lower legs with hair on.

There are a few actual vets on here who probably know more about this than your standard person.

@Buchan @srvet

 

[sauer]

I give them the shoulder blade
And ribs

I’ve avoided weight bearing bones as per said already jist incase … plus dogs are fed raw and get bones from chicken wings they get so didn’t want to over bone so to speak

Paul

 

[Tim.243]

What are the best bones to toss them? I was seeing in the thread below where people mentioned weight bearing bones can be Iffy but shoulders etc are fine.
Wanted to give them some leg bones but after seeing the thread might not unless there's 99% safe ones.

Will probably be roe deer If that makes any difference! and no skull, I'll be keeping that (Shall be my first deer!)

My 2 have muntjac lower legs so from the knee down to the hoof, the soft ribs also if I bone out a rear leg they have half each. They like fallow legs but only if I skin the fur back.
The last vet trip the over weight vet came out saying Chip @ 8 was 2kg heaver to there scale. I asked how good are his teeth...Oh very good I was going to mention that....yea right!

 

[nun_hunter]

I think it's worth mentioning when replying to these threads that if you give your dog lower leg bones then what breed of dog do you have and to they actually eat the whole bone and swallow it.

I'm guessing that the spaniels and teckles aren't cracking these bones into shards and swallowing them therefore no harm other than a possible cracked tooth.

As I said mine would shatter a leg bone into sharp pieces about 3"-4" long and swallow them if given the chance so for him it's not safe. Letting a small dog gnaw a bone clean of meat that has no chance of cracking it and swallowing shards would be fine.

 

[Utectok]

My dogs enjoyed venison mince (microwaved) with dried food and bones of all sorts. Roe legs get chewed up pretty quick smashes to bits usually but a good red thigh bone lasts them months still one down the back of the sofa from last season lol! I have three cockers

 

[User00036]

I once had a pyrex glass butter dish full of soft butter on the table, we went down the pub, when we came back the butterdish had gone, we searched everywhere, nothing. We found one large shard on the kitchen floor. Came to the conclusion that the dog had pulled it off the table where it exploded into pieces with bits of butter stuck to the shards. Dog had eaten the bloody lot! Fully expected to see him dead in the morning. fat chance, he carried on s if nothing was wrong, the picture of health. Bloody Aussie Cattle dogs, they are the toughest meanest bastards I ever owned.

 

[Buchan]

Mine have had every part of the skeleton from at one time or another.

I always wince when I see them crapping teeth... I wonder if that's where the phrase "coming back to bite me on the arse" comes from?

Anyway. Most people seem to say not to feed the weight bearing bones which I suppose is good advice although it's never caused mine a problem.

Also the current advice appears to be not to feed antler... Although mine do have antler chews without trouble up until now I'll probably stop giving them to them in favour of lower legs with hair on.

There are a few actual vets on here who probably know more about this than your standard person.

@Buchan @srvet

Bones should be OK. Should being important. I advise folk to feed a big raw bone (cow) that the dog can chew the gristle off, but is too big to try and bite through - aimed at avoiding slab fractures of the back teeth. These fractures are common with antler products.
Feeding the crunchier ones seems to make more sense.
As to shards - rarely a problem unless the shard is part of a large lump, so the vertebrae of a pork chop is common to get stuck in the oesophagus of a dog.

 

[Utectok]

I was always told raw bones fine cooked no way

 

[User00036]

Bones should be OK. Should being important. I advise folk to feed a big raw bone (cow) that the dog can chew the gristle off, but is too big to try and bite through - aimed at avoiding slab fractures of the back teeth. These fractures are common with antler products.
Feeding the crunchier ones seems to make more sense.
As to shards - rarely a problem unless the shard is part of a large lump, so the vertebrae of a pork chop is common to get stuck in the oesophagus of a dog.

Shards not so much of a problem as ground bones leading to compaction in the gut. watch out for dog straining & passing nothing, can lead on to blood poisoning. As stated earlier never feed cooked bones, especially pork.

 

[Buchan]

Shards not so much of a problem as ground bones leading to compaction in the gut. watch out for dog straining & passing nothing, can lead on to blood poisoning.

I'd forgotten that. Done more enemas to remove impacted bone than any other cause of blockage.

 

[Millerich]

I'd forgotten that. Done more enemas to remove impacted bone than any other cause of blockage.

Always a joy. Digging around, feeling the shards trying to lacerate your glove.

 

[Sol]

There English bull dogs! They've been eating beef bones for the last week so maybe hold on giving them anymore for the meanwhile, with the whole ground bone issue.

Roe deer might be cutting it a bit close.... we fed them a red bone before I was aware, it was seemly big enough to not cause issue.

Perhaps I'll give them to my sister while still a bulldog its much smaller and built more like a pup despite being 2+

 

[Sol]

I know they've gotten a roe bone before, top and bottom were chewed off but besides that no splinters etc (on my roof! Only reason I know)

Would it be advised to saw the ball joint parts off not sure how it would affect it.