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Originally Posted by DobeGirl07 I am trying to incorporate a large variety of meats into my dogs diets. What exotics do you guys feed? I am wanting to try ostrich, goat, sheep, and other foods.
Right now I am rotating beef, tripe, turkey, chicken, lamb, rabbit,duck, buffalo, salmon, mackeral, sardines, etc.
Do your Dobes have any problems with any of the meats listed? Just want to make sure my dogs are getting proper nutrition. |
My dogs regularly eat chicken, duck, beef, pork, rabbit, lamb and fish (salmon, mackeral), and ostrich. Sheep is lamb, by the way, lambs are baby sheep. Buffalo is not regularly affordable for me in the amount that I would need to feed it, neither is emu or elk, but they have had that rarely. The goat bones are never appropriately sized and it tends to be very fatty whenever I have obtained them, which my dogs do not particularly like, but the cats ADORE so I feed the goat bones I have to them instead

I have venison in the freezer (a large amount, in fact), but the bones were not meaty enough so I feed those to the cats as well mostly, or Berlin only.
There is no such thing as "proper nutrition" - that depends on what you believe.
I get most of my food from either the foodstore or through private sources/my co-op/private farmers. Bravo, Oma's etc are ok sources, and I've used them before, but they aren't affordable for me in the bulk I need to feed it, not as a regular source for everything, and they simply don't have the raw meaty bones I seek. I want to feed everything as whole and as raw as possible - if I could get everything in it's natural form, I would!!! One day I hope to be able to purchase whole sheep, sides of beef, etc and just feed those...
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