which meats are fatty which are lean

[weloveourweasels]

so like the title says, which meats are on the fatty side and which on the lean side.

I have fed my kids chicken, beef, quail and pheasent. I will be getting them cornish game hen once i move and probably a whole lot more variety since TX is a huge meat loving state and there is a farmers market with grass fed, free range meat and lots of farms.

[Heather]

A lot of the game meats, even farmed are leaner than our beef. Venison, bison and moose are all very lean almost fat free meats. Rabbit is quite lean too. Beef, pork both have good fatty cuts that you can make use of for your little ones. Chicken backs will also offer you more fat to put weight on. Lamb can also be quite marbled. The goat that I got last time was very fatty and all my furbrats put on major weight on it, but it appears to depend on the shipment . Quail is quite lean too. Some fish carry more fat than others too. Salmon has a high fat content while talapia is lower in fat. I think our prey animals, mice and rats are also leaner for the most part as well....mine spend most of their time on the treadmill
Maybe someone has a listing of fattier meats, most of the tables that I found were for cooked meats, with pork being the highest, followed closely by beef, then chicken. Unfortunately, there were no listing for the more exotic meats that we also feed.
Ciao

[tiggyeaj]

If you're looking for a fattier meat and can afford it, use duck. I can say from cooking it that it's VERY fatty.

[tiggyeaj]

Oh, oh. Just found this! www.nutritiondata.com/. You can get nutritional info about all sorts of meats, prepared all different ways. Beaver has 22g of fat per serving. I didn't look at the horse, but I do know that it's supposed to be lean. Having said that, I feel the need to go order more stall treats for the family ponies, so they don't sense I mentioned anything about eating horses.

[weloveourweasels]

thanks for the replies

[sherrylynne]

I actually have to remove some of the fat from the duck I pick up, because mine won't eat that much fat . There's usually about 1/2" fat under the skin, as well as what's in the meat itself.

[vkoslin]

I haven't thought about it! To fatten up my smallest, I included the skin from a whole chicken that I cut up, and a lot of the fat. For my fattest, Jack, to lean up, I refused him more of the fattier parts (of course he still got his serving of fat though)