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Post by sherrylynne on Aug 26, 2010 8:59:45 GMT -5
That's good! And as for the duck, pretty much all they can eat is the neck, wing tips, ribs, and some of the spine. The rest of the bone is too dense for them. Although most will eat the marrow out if you crack them open for them! Can you get rabbit? That's another bone they can eat a good bit of. Not so much the skull or denser leg bone, but the rest is good. Oh, and can you give me the menu you are following right now? That way, we know if we need to tweak it any. Sort of, on Monday, they get this and this. Tues., they get this, etc.
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Post by horse656 on Aug 26, 2010 12:03:35 GMT -5
yup. i don't know if i can get rabbit. but i'll check other stores.
Monday- bones Tuesday-heart Wednesday- bones Thursday- organs in AM and bones or muscle meat Friday- bones Saturday- bones Sunday- muscle meat
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Post by sherrylynne on Aug 26, 2010 17:21:11 GMT -5
Ok, so correct me if I'm wrong here. Bone in meats are chicken, duck, quail. Muscle meats are beef, pork. How are they doing with the liver, and what kind is it?
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Post by horse656 on Aug 26, 2010 17:44:55 GMT -5
they eat it fine. i think we have pork and wild boar liver. Pebbles will eat it if she has too, and figures out i'm not going to give them something else. is that OK to do with them? if they don't eat what they get in the morning leave it in they're until they do eat it? and continue on their schedule from there. like this morning, i gave them chicken wings(whole drumstick) and they haven't touched it. so I'm going to leave it in the cage until morning probably, and give them organs tomorrow. i switched around the schedule every now and then if that happens. i gave them kidney this morning and they sucked it up so no problems with kidney
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Post by sherrylynne on Aug 27, 2010 17:42:38 GMT -5
That's what I do as well Ok, another question. When you give both meats, and bone in, are you switching up the cuts they come from? Like, you give, say, chicken thigh, and another time, wing, yet another drumsticks. Or with pork, they get(obviously, lol) liver, chops, or other cuts?
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Post by horse656 on Aug 27, 2010 19:00:45 GMT -5
um, we generally get whats on sale. pork is stew cubes i think along with organs, beef is the stir fry stuff and organs, turkey is neck and heart, duck is wings for now, until i chop up the whole duck, chicken is all of it, most of it right now is wings and backs right now i don't think i have any chicken organs. wild boar is liver and heart. quail is whole, and maybe liver if it's in the quail.
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Post by sherrylynne on Aug 27, 2010 21:52:56 GMT -5
That's not too bad. I'm just asking because it is important to try to switch it up sometimes. For me, pork steak is usually cheapest of the pork, followed by rib tail ends, or pork button bones. Beef, it's usually stew meat, or the really cheap simmering steaks. The thing is, different cuts of course come from different parts of the animal, and the more you are able to get, even if it's just once in a while on sale, the better. Simply because different parts have different concentrations of nutrients. While doing this is by no means mandatory, it just helps "cover your nutritional bases" better
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Post by horse656 on Aug 28, 2010 7:38:11 GMT -5
do ground things count i've heard that they don't have that much "stuff" in them. we have hamburger. but thats about it. i think we might make another trip to china town in the next month. i'll check if any of the places have rabbit. can they eat all the bones in rabbit?
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Post by sherrylynne on Aug 28, 2010 21:05:09 GMT -5
Unfortunately, ground beef really doesn't have much nutrition in it. As for rabbit- they can eat all but the leg bones!
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Post by horse656 on Aug 28, 2010 21:13:45 GMT -5
i didn't think it did have that much. i did make up some with egg shell in it, because belle wasn't feeling so great awhile ago, but i think i put too much egg shell in it. i might just throw it out.
i just need to find some place that has rabbit now.
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Post by sherrylynne on Aug 29, 2010 1:03:46 GMT -5
It's not essential for them to have rabbit. It was simply a suggestion. To be honest, the only way I can get rabbit right now, that's not astronomical in price, is with premade commercial raw.
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Post by horse656 on Aug 29, 2010 7:56:55 GMT -5
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Post by sherrylynne on Aug 29, 2010 10:16:04 GMT -5
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Post by horse656 on Aug 29, 2010 14:16:42 GMT -5
do i really have to? i generally post on here what they get anyway . but i guess i will.
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Post by sherrylynne on Aug 29, 2010 16:25:24 GMT -5
Keeping a food diary for them really is a good idea. I don't do it on a regular basis, but 3-4 times a year I will, usually for a couple of weeks. It just helps me judge better what's working and what isn't.
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