feeding rabbit's to your dogs

[stormrider8 59]

I find it hard to keep on top of the worms feeding raw, i boil mine up skinned and paunched.

 

I find, if i worm every 3 months with Dorantal +, they seem fine, the freezing usually kills the worms off, but sometimes if i get in with my lurcher with a warm bunny or 2, i give her it, skined, its gone quicker then a derosted one, so she will get worms from this.

 

 

I know what your saying mate, i feed most other things raw. The rabbits are never in the freezer long enough in my house to kill the worms. Just have to try catch more i suppose . Used to feed them raw but even worming every 3 months my dogs looked wormy "can't stand it". All the best chris

[runforyourlife 361]

Well thats a vets view, i as only last week about feeding rabbit, raw or cooked

I wouldn't be consulting a vet about canine nutrition. . . . the majority seem to be worse than useless.

 

Lol, i would agree with you there ABDog, but the vet is my brother in law, and he is a descent bloke... He just asked me how i fed the rabbits, when i told him i boiled them, he just mentioned it being the best way. As worms would be a problem....

 

Its not hard to boil a rabbit, i know it is easier to throw it a raw one, it is also easy to throw your dog in a pen and not towel it down after working in mud and rain, who would do that! ummmmm, i wonder.

[ABDog 0]

I'm sure he is a decent bloke. . . if there is any real evidence that cooking a rabbit prior to feeding is better than raw, I'd like to see it.

Feeding raw is not about how easy it is, it's a bit of a shame you feel that way.

[Malt 379]

Its not hard to boil a rabbit, i know it is easier to throw it a raw one, it is also easy to throw your dog in a pen and not towel it down after working in mud and rain, who would do that! ummmmm, i wonder.

It's not about how easy it is to feed raw, a dog is designed to eat raw meat. If you freeze the meat, it will kill the worms the same as boiling.

[Guest WILF]

If you feed raw instead of boiling Chartpolski, then you would'nt have that hassle

 

Mine get them still warm whenever possible, guts fur everything....its the most natural way to do it. Just make sure the dogs are up to date with their worming

The rest of the time, out of the freezer.

 

Perfect advice..........I do exactly the same.

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Most of my dogs diet is raw rabbit, I never cook it, not because I cant be arsed, but because it is much better for the dogs to digest than cooked, plus they get the bones etc, which, if cooked are a deffinate no no!

 

I must say that I never used to freeze all of the rabbits I fed to the dogs, and they did get wormy quite regular, and I was worming every month or two. But now I always freeze all of my catch, and it has deffinately made a big difference with the worms.

[jedandlevo 8]

i put a post up about this very subject the other week and people just said skin and gut them and freze them to kill any worms/bugs that the rabbit/hare mighyt be carrying then simply defrost and feed keeping the worming up to date hope this helps mate

[Guest jordy p]

i gut and skin them mate then i boil them up for 20 minutes and the dog will eat the meat and the bones no problem

 

jp

[Guest whitser]

skin them,gut them freeze them for a little while then feed them whole bones and all.

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

i gut and skin them mate then i boil them up for 20 minutes and the dog will eat the meat and the bones no problem

 

jp

Very risky, I would say, cooked rabbit bones splinter badly when chewed, and also they wont digest properly in the stomach, so they go through the whole system as sharp useless objects, which will probably cause you some serious grief someday.

[Back Stabbath 1]

Well thats a vets view, i as only last week about feeding rabbit, raw or cooked

I wouldn't be consulting a vet about canine nutrition. . . . the majority seem to be worse than useless.

 

 

AMEN TO THAT!

 

 

I never cook anything for my dogs. I always feed raw. They are dogs for God sake! I think about half the skin is good to give the dogs (or all of it, whatever). Raw bones are great for dogs. Cooked bones (esp. chicken, rabbit) are very dangerous.

 

Cooking is such a waste of good meat. It kills all the enzymes for digestion and some nutrients.

 

There was actually a test done on cats once - A guy fed one group cooked meat all their lives and the second group raw meat all their lives. The ones fed cooked meat couldn't even reproduce after the 3rd generation and the cats were deformed.

Edited October 25, 2008 by Back Stabbath

[stormrider8 59]

must say that I never used to freeze all of the rabbits I fed to the dogs, and they did get wormy quite regular, and I was worming every month or two. But now I always freeze all of my catch, and it has deffinately made a big difference with the worms

 

So whats better, to feed raw and worm every month or so. Or just simply boil it, boiling works for me! I cant see how a dog riddled with worms or one thats havin drontal or ivomec every month is in better shape. Yeah if they can be frozen for long enough to kill it all then fare one, but fresh and raw a no no for me.

[weejohn 3]

i just gut and skin then feed. i also worm once a month

[BULL 96]

ive been feeding mine fresh rabbits somtimes still warm ,not frozen had to worm dogs every 2 months latley dogs got worms after 3 weeks of worming ,so i am now freezing rabbits for at least a week and see if this helps,i skin rabbits and pull out gut and stomach i leave in heart ,lungs,kidneys and liver i leave head,feet and tail on with the surrounding parts of fur .

im looking for a cheap mincer as the frozen rabbits take up quite alot of room in the freezer

[Rabbithunter 456]

skin & gut em, whack em through the mincer, freezer. de-frost & boil