Spring 5 Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Hi there We have recently changed feeding our Deerhound from a complete feed to a Raw meaty bone diet. He gets chicken carcasses, minced chicken with bone, Tripe, Turkey necks and wings, lamb ribs and brest of lamb. He gets a mixture of things each day but always has 1 or 2 carcasses. The question is his poos, they are very 'dry' to the point that today he was howling when trying to 'go'. Are we giving too much bone? Should we be doing anything else? He is loving the food, put on some much needed weight and looks great so we really don't want to go back to a complete food. Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome. Regards Spring. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dogman89 0 Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 sounds like he is getting to much bone. try adding some flesh meat into it, i try to give a good mixture of bone and meat. i also give my pups about half a pint of goats milk each every day. as for veg, well they havnt had any. the only other thing i give mine is brown bread and cod liver oil oh an i give them tins of sardines and tuna, they are only like 34p for a tin in asda Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LamperJohn 12 Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 to much calcium thats all just give him more muscle meats like beef shin ,ox hearts etc regards john Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Simoman 110 Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 60% raw meaty bones and 40% mince with some fish and veg will ease his constipation, for a temporary solution to ease his discomfort give him some liquid parafin......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bevwallis 7 Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Definately too much bone. He also needs some offal(in small amounts) The only thing i can see you feed without bone is tripe. I would feed extra flesh in the form of lamb/beef mince. With the adults i feed 2 meaty bone days followed by a whole rabbit /venison or tripe only.Each dog differs but if you adjust the meat to bone ratio you should see a difference very quickly Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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