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    I do agree. I just came round to whole prey model when I figured that it's how wolves feed themselves and they need to be as fit as possible or they don't eat. Dogs don't need any kind of plant, grain or whatnot, they're not designed to digest it. Many dogs do fine with some in their diet, like yours obviously do, but many dogs also suffer from it (and from my POV the saddest thing is when the owners don't even notice that their dogs aren't best health because I've been there myself).
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    Thanks Michael, yeah double cream, shake = buttermilk and butter. You can add salt but you don't have to. The more buttermilk is left in the quicker the butter will go off - if it isn't eaten before then. I usually sit in front of a favourite tv show and pass it back and forth between anyone who's in my house at the time. I've used a jamjar before heard the suggestion to use a milk plastic carton so it's easier to pour the buttermilk out. You then cut the top off to get to the butter. It first goes all solid, no liquid, and then slowly the buttermilk starts to seep out. Seriously the bes
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    You can also make buttermilk yourself. Take a rinsed out milk carton, pour in a carton of double cream, put the lid back on and shake until you have butter. Pour the buttermilk out, rinse the butter under the tap to get the last of the buttermilk out. Then you have butter, and the buttermilk to try this with. cheers langouroux, I do make homemade butter sometimes (shopbought doesn't have a patch on it) and always wonder what to do with the buttermilk. I'll have to try this.
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    Craig, if you look up rawfeddogs.net you'll see some very happy dogs chomping their way through some good proper food. All the dogs on there are fed Whole Prey Model, based on the fact that dogs are carnivores, the same species as wolves, and need whole prey to be best fed (failing that, what gets called frankenprey). There's a yahoo group called rawfeeding. It's international and you get a right old mix of everything from pampered pet to working dogs, but they'll support and help you get the diet right. You can even ask some of the hunting types on there how it works out with their dogs. We o
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    Any chance of photos? I'll keep an eye out.
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    :wacko:
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    Leather suppliers do a tanning solution. Curing with salt is not tanning and will always leave a skin stiff and liable to become a slimey mess if it gets wet. A tanning solution will change skins into leather. You have to make sure that the membranes are scraped off before you follow instructions on the bottle.
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    Craig, when the bones are raw they don't splinter too badly at all. A dog is a wolf as far as their digestive tract is concerned. Rabbit is a fantastic whole package. No need to skin or gut or cut in half - just feed whole (okay, maybe ration to begin with, but most dogs will self-regulate sooner or later when fed raw food, even the greedy eaters). Feed some fatty meat such as lamb trim or ox heart or pork trim and you'll be laughing. Happy healthy dog. Dogs are designed to eat whole prey, the better we can mimic that the better for the dog.
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    In a different part of Devon to me there was a bit of common land that was used as a playing field by kids and by dog walkers. However it would also get used by youngsters at weekends as a place to hang out and drink. Eventually the dog walkers who'd clear up the rubbish left behind got banned in case anyone stepping in that highly hazardous and toxic substance - dog poo. Thankfully rubbish isn't much of a problem round here. Or I probably would pick it up. I've moved left over rolls of barbed wire though.
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    I avoid really dense bones like beef long bones, but other bones if it's not eatten than my lurcher picks them clean before I remove them. As for soft body parts - no intestines unless they're in anything I am feeding whole, like rabbit or squirrel. But I try and feed whole prey model - so pretty much anything is fair enough. Only venison I've been able to feed is a bit of roadkill we were able to pick up and a few bits and pieces gamedealers have given me, I've heard that venison tripe is even better than ox tripe for dogs. My dog ate all of the head bar the cap of the skull under t
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    I've heard of dogs getting sick from this being added to their food. There's investigations ongoing in the US (where this product originates) I believe.
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    Incisors? Do they consume all the bone you feed them or do you ever give them bones to strip clean (then removed the bone to prevent tooth damage)? Because I keep my lurcher's teeth clean by providing a range of stuff designed to clean the different parts of his mouth. Different teeth do different jobs and therefore to clean them all you need to provide stuff that works them all (over time, not necessarily in the same meal). I sometimes gets beef ribs or bits of spine from my butcher, my dog strips all the membranes and any meat off and his incisors look fine. If I don't provide anything
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    No advice, but loads of sympathy. Takes an age to sort anything with planning offices. We wanted to be legit with the structure in our woods so we did talk to them first and do what they asked. But because of the size of our woods it completely confused them. Good luck, folks like that deserve to be able to stay on their land. It's being worked and looked after, it's not overcrowded etc etc. Grr.
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    Rabbits don't need mincing. They can be fed whole. Watch out with the mince. I'm guessing it's AMP mince from a pet shop? The chicken ones at least are very very high in bone. I wouldn't add boney items to them. My big problem with most minces for dogs is that you have no idea what's in them. Not the amount of bone or anything like that. I feed roughly whole prey model, and I prefer feeding body parts and whole prey so I know what's in my dog's food. Weight bearing bones are only a problem when they're from really big animals such as beef long bones. Chicken leg bones and rabbit leg b
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    Dogs need mostly meat, some offal and some bone. Whole chicken (so still wrapped in its feathers with ins insides) delivers this. However dogs need some red meat in their diet. Rabbit, beef, lamb, pork. They don't need veg or fruit and do well without it. http://www.rawfed.com/myths/feedraw.html The above has a practical guide to feeding raw. Chicken is a good food to switch a dog with, after switching a dog needs more variety.
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    Salt only helps dry it rather than curing it. It is possible to dry scrape it, but much easier wet! I used to have a copy of instructions for making a rabbit skin blanket. Basically each skin was cut into a spiral and then woven together so you have fur on both sides. Very snug apparently. Sadly, whilst I'm interested in hunting I've not been, so I don't have enough of a supply to try it for myself as it needs something like 50 skins.
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    We cut funnels and plugs from other wood before when my fiance and I have tapped some of our birches. Our birch sap normally gets mixed with vodka, but plan on some birch sap wine this year. Just got to see how the weather goes in the next few weeks.
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    It's been good to read this advice. I've got my first lurcher, don't know about working him but guessed I'd need him to retrieve so been trying to work on it. On a good day it's every time for 6 times or more. On a bad he seems to just laugh at me. I try not to ask him to do more than a couple of times. I've also had him doing fine on a dummy but no chance if I try and use a different toy. So it's good to hear that they will sometimes bring one thing back but not another.
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    I find that a mix of different bones help clean different teeth. But even I haven't solved the canine teeth problem. For an idea of the range of bones I just at the moment. Sometimes I give long bones (unless they're from old beasts they're not too much of a problem and I usually get given sheep bones anyway), sometimes beef rib (I believe that the membranes being pulled off help to floss the dog's teeth), and sometimes spine. My hound has only just started to really eat the vertebrae recently. He has lovely teeth except for the fine line on the canines. He also gets bones within meat such as
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    I'm Steviesun. 24. Female. There's a long story about me and hunting and I guess if I'm going to tell it anywhere on this forum it had better me here rather than cluttering up anywhere else. When I was younger I was very anti-hunting. I was swayed by all the anti-hunting stuff I saw. Then I went to boarding school. It was when Labour got into power so I guess hunting with hounds was on the minds of my friends who were involved in hunting. I got into lots of discussions with them about it. IN the end I left that school converted to a middle ground. I was converted to the point that
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