Can My 8 Week Old Puppy Eat The Whole Chicken Drumstick If I Am Feeding Him Raw?
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Or just the meat
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It would depend on the size of the pups – My stafford pups can eat a chicken drumstick and pork ribs by the time they are six weeks old.
We usually give pups this age four meals a day
breakfast – kangaroo mince (often with egg, fish or organ added)
lunch – drumsticks, thigh or pork rasher
Dinner – meat offcuts/chunks (beef, lamb or roo) or ox/lamb heart
supper – the same as breakfast
A bernese should have no problems at all. You may need to start with ribboning the meat on the bone until he get used to tearing it off himself.
“Dogs are Carnivores” An article clearly explaining the physiological reasons behind this classification and the effects of feeding inappropriate foods http://www.thewholedog.org/artcarnivores…
A feeding guide published by Dr Tom Lonsdale, a vet who advocates raw feeding and has been widely publishedhttp://www.rawmeatybones.com/diet/exp-di…
A website debunking some of the many myths regarding raw feeding and bones.http://rawfed.com/myths
NO! First of all, are there bones in that drumstick? I’m assuming there are, and your puppy can very easily choke on a bone. You shouldn’t be giving anything with bones even to an adult dog, let alone a puppy. They don’t exactly slow down to daintily pick the meat off before eating.
Nor would I feed a puppy a raw diet. If that puppy recently came to your home, then it already has a diet established. No matter how crappy that diet is, you need to slowly wean the dog away from it, not switch immediately. You can make the puppy sick that way.
If, however, the puppy is already eating raw meat, then just be careful. Ground hamburger, obviously bacon, and pork are really bad for all dogs. And you should never just randomly give a puppy raw meat. You need to make sure the dog’s diet is carefully balanced, so don’t just give it what you already give the adult dogs. And watch out for signs of illness. Raw meat contains bacteria that can make dogs sick, and while raw meat fans just accept this as a matter of course, anything that can make a dog sick is a hundred times more dangerous for a puppy. You really should do more research than just YA on this one.
Yes you can. He should be big enough for it, but if you are worried then stick with a wing for now. I usually wait until 8 pounds for the drums and he should be close if not more than that. Make sure for a puppy you do not feed 2-3% of their body weight like for adults, you feed around 2% of the predicted abult weight.
For the poster saying chicken bones are bad… Only cooked bones are bad. Raw bones are perfectly safe and healthy even chicken.
Is your puppy a gulper or a chewer? I had the same concerns when I switched my 6 month old puppies to raw.
If your puppy has a tendency to inhale his food, gulp it down or just not chew it up that well then I would definitely start out with the whole chicken drumstick. This will help teach him to tear the meat off and work with it a little more before swallowing. One popular school of thought is to go bigger than their head.
Once I was confident my puppies would actually work on tearing the meat and crunching the bone then I started giving them smaller pieces as well like chicken wings or drumlettes.
As long as you are feeding raw, chicken bones are fine. They only get brittle and dangerous when they are cooked. If you are starting a puppy on a raw diet, I would start with the wings. It also depends on the breed of dog. There is a BIG difference between an 8 week old Chihuahua and an 8 week old Newfoundland. My Newfoundland was fed raw food his entire life including chicken, beef and fish. All raw.
What kind of puppy? I have a beagle and ythey aey are naturally hunters w/the jaws to crush the bones, Be careful and ask your vet or a trainer!
theres a big debate about this. my vet advises to only fees them raw chicken wings and chicken necks cause the larger bones can get stuck.
All of it. You should do more research…
NO dog of ANY age should eat chicken bones! Puppies up to one year old should be given nothing but puppy food! You should check with your Veterinarian about proper nutrition.
What kind of puppy? No, I wouldn’t feed an 8 week old puppy a raw drumstick! And if it’s a 1 lb chihuahua I REALLY wouldn’t do it.
you shoulded feed your puppy human food it is not good but if you mean a dog food it can’t eat it is too much!
Im Not Sure… I Know Your Not Supposed To Feed Any Type Of Dog Chicken Bones…