Raw Chicken for Dogs — The Stinkier the Better
Here’s an update on the raw chicken we have every day. I’ve written about giving raw chicken to Lacey a couple of times — BARF and raw chicken and raw food and raw chicken.
Lacey gets either 2-3 raw chicken necks or 1-2 raw chicken backs every day as a meal. I order them from Jimbos at about 6-8 pounds per order. A package will last 10 days to 2 weeks. If they’re frozen, I put them in the fridge and thaw them out a little. Then break them into servings of 2-3 days, ziplock baggie them, and put them back in the freezer. I pull out a baggie when I need it.
The great thing is, it doesn’t matter if it goes “bad” as we humans think of bad. The smellier it is, the more interested she is in eating it. The darker the color, even to the point of being blue, the more she likes it. Sometimes I open the baggie and nearly pass out from the smell! whew weee.
She still has to work to get it though — usually a sit/stay or a down/stay until I release her and hand it over. We only do the raw chicken on the patio, so once she gets it, she takes it over to her favorite spot in the flower bed and rolls it around in the dirt, licking it. Then she chomps down, crunch, crunch. Man, is she ever happy. She finishes then comes back for another.
BTW, dogs have potent digestive juices and salmonella, bacteria, etc gets killed immediately in their bellies. I must give this little disclaimer — before you start a total raw food diet, if your dog has been eating dry food for years, their immune system, overall health, and digestive juice potency might be compromised. Test it out and let them get healthy before you give them the stinky meat.
So that’s the update on raw chicken and my girl. oh and of course it’s organic! (no hormones, pesticides, uppers, downers, or clipped beaks in our cuisine).
Anna