SmellySmelt wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15 2021 13:00 -Talking raw diet here....and the natural carbs dogs need comes from fat...feed the right amount of meat/fat....plenty carbs and protein....funnily enough that sounds like a chicken carcase.Kev Berry wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15 2021 12:20 -I’m talking about working dogs. Not wild animals, they perform better with carbohydrates in their diets. That is plane to see when you are working them. It might not be essential in their diet to live but when your grafting them a few times a week you can see the difference with carbs on board. Your average dog will never be tested to where it needs more in their diet.SmellySmelt wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15 2021 10:52 -How many plant based carbohydrates do wolves and african wild dogs eat?Kev Berry wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14 2021 23:23 -A working dog needs carbohydrates too, a small about. Might be different for pet dogs. Veg have vitamins that the meat is lacking.Fat is a very important part of a dogs diet
Feed your dog on the best lean meat and it will lose weight.
Chicken carcasses give nearly everything to a dog it needs. A bit of liver will give the rest.
Marrow inside the bones is very good for dogs.
I stopped giving my dogs bones to chew on because it caused fights.
They had pig sheep and cow rib bones as these could be chomped and swallowed quickly without gnawing and chewing and winding the dog in next kennel/run up.
Unwashed tripe with some of contents still attached will also give the dogs the bit of plant life they can digest. The cows have already broke down the cell structure allowing dogs to digest it.
During WW2 many dogs survived on cow and sheep stomachs and contents as there was very little dog food available.
First "complete" dog food was based on this..Vitalin.
Problem was it went in looking like rabbit food and it came out looking the same....the chickens loved it
If you are get trip straight from any animal, it’s best to soak it in a bucket of water or leave hanging for a few days so that the slaughtered animals enzymes have died off on it or your dog will be getting sick everywhere.
That's why fat is an important part of a dogs diet
Fed dogs on tripe that's still warm/been frozen/got maggots in and never had one sick. Only time a dog gets sick on tripe is cos its eaten too much.
Dogs love it.
Working dogs are usually fed on kibble. The carbs in there come from starch in the form of rice barley etc
Ever seen a wild dog eating grain