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Krazy.....it is extremely rare for dogs to get lice.  12 years as a veterinary technician and as a groomer I have never seen lice on a dog.  Besides, I am pretty sure there is a particular type/species of lice that is exclusive to dogs and no other animal.  Bird lice that a chicken might get also are species specific, I am pretty sure.  Since lice are a type of mite and if you use a flea prevention this would also take care of that problem.

Kalibeck,  I have fed deer and if you are worried about parasites you can freeze the meat for probably 2 weeks to 30 days and it should kill anything that your dog might catch.

Vickie
www.PowerHausKennels.com

Vickie, thanks. I have wanted to share the venison we occassionally get with the dogs, but after what we went through with Wolf, I was very leary about feeding raw game.

This is a great thread. I am having a food issue myself right now. I think that my dogs coats are too dry & not as shiny since we went to Canidae. It is a good food at a reasonable price, but having seen how great they can look, I am sort of in a state of constant guilt/disappointment. And then I have the girl with the gut issues. I don't know if I have the heart to buy a horse to slaughter, being someone who misses her horses anyway, but I would like to go raw, I just can't find any kind of reference that takes dogs with plicated bowels into consideration when feeding BARF or raw diets.
I can tell you my take on the price issue. To save some $$$ we switched to RC a couple of years ago, but I think that the $3700.00 abdominal surgery my girl had to have kinda off-set the savings....don't cha think? Not to mention we nearly lost her, & the suffering she (we) had to bear...  No more RC for us! jackie harris

I had a client w/a dog who had similar surgery and I came up w/a raw program for him. So far, so good. That was about 8mos ago...maybe longer. PM or email me if you're curious.

Steph, the bird guy at UC Davis told me that within hours of a bird dying, the lice are no longer viable. They are bird lice and they don't live on anything else. They won't infest you or your dogs, contrary to any rumor.

My dogs have killed roosters, but that was before I even started feeding raw and was partly WHY I started feeding raw--I could see first hand that the bones weren't hurting anything. Stupid roosters trying to face down a flock of GSDs! Anyhow, the dogs pulled off the most offensive feathers and ate the rest. Seemed like a good plan. They also ate everything except the stomach. Every time, there was just this little yellow sac left over. They would look at it like it made them gag to think of it. Nobody EVER got coccidia from eating live roosters. Never had a paraste issue of any kind.

My dogs haven't had feathered chicken, but they did fine w/my parakeets. I've fed lots of show bunnies, fur and all. No problems. They did each go into the rabbit, find the bladder, and shake the urine out of it, then they ate the entire thing. No parasites.

I finally found a place to get raw from.
Prices seem to be reasonable.
Since I have NO CLUE what I am doing I think prepared is the best way to go until I am able to learn.

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 "My dogs haven't had feathered chicken, but they did fine w/my parakeets. I've fed lots of show bunnies, fur and all. No problems. They did each go into the rabbit, find the bladder, and shake the urine out of it, then they ate the entire thing. No parasites."

Earlier this summer I was at my next-door neighbors' house having a beer when they asked me if I had seen the woodchuck (for you non-New Englanders, that's a groundhog).  I told them no, I had not seen the woodchuck.  They told me the woodchuck would walk up within 15 feet of their elderly Portuguese Water Dog as she slept, and was very bold.  

Well, about ten days later I met the woodchuck: my year-old bitch was eating it.  I'd heard my male dog barking his head off outside, and went out to investigate.  He was standing nearby the bitch, who had caught and eaten most of the woodchuck.

The woodchuck's abdomen was very neatly opened and she'd already gotten most of the goodies out, and had just pulled away the skin from the ribcage and was nibbling away on the muscle between the ribs.   She was in no mood to share and snarled my male away anytime he got within five feet of her prize.   Quite pleased with herself she was, and I had to drag her off the thing and put her in the house so I could dispose of the remains.  Apparently woodchuck meat  agrees with her, as there were no aftereffects whatsoever.  

A week later I heard my male barking away again, looked out the window and saw her prancing around the yard with another woodchuck she had caught and killed.  I took it away from her immediately, so no feast this time. 

Two weeks after that, she caught and killed a skunk after I let the dogs out at night.  She was drenched in skunk spray and the male was stinky too, so they spent the rest of the night outside.  The skunk carcass was intact when I found it the next day - apparently that meat was too smelly to eat. 

So while I don't feed raw, at least one of my dogs has a preference for it and will engage in self-help to get what she wants!

My big musculine witch with a B dog prefers goat. She has killed and eaten large parts of two of them. I didn't feel too good about encouraging the behavior so I disposed of the remains, which I feel kind of stupid about now as they were pretty d*mn big goats. Still not sure if I handled it correctly of if I should have just fed her the rest of the bodies. Opinions?

My dog seems to have made friends with the resident woodchuck and her many babies.  He did make an amazing, at least  12 + ft broad jump from the top slope of the yard, that also cleared the regulation height pool fence, when he saw a rabbit.  We wouldn't have believed it, if our friend had not seen it. No wonder they chase bunnies in greyhound racing.