Wild game meat, would it be good for dog? - Page 2

Thank you all for the info!!  :)

My dogs don't really care for dry kibble either, but they can eat it or go hungry.
Mostly I wet their kibble and add to it various things, but not always.
Of course they love meat.....goes without saying.


 

I suggest you check on whether the feral hog population in your area is considered to be affected with either pseudorabies or swine brucellosis.  If the latter has been found in the feral hogs, make sure your husband wears latex gloves and a mask when dressing out and butchering the animal; if pseudorabies is present, however, I would not recommend feeding any part of the hog raw, as that disease can be transmitted to dogs via an infected carcass, and freezing will not kill the causative virus. Pseudorabies in dogs is fatal, even though it primarily only affects the fertility and newborn survival in hogs.  Your state veterinarian's office should be able to tell you the status with regard to both diseases in the feral hogs there.

Thanks for all the information about the feral hogs, I didn't realize they carry so many parasites and diseases! And so many people eat them :/   Maybe I'll stick to the deer and scraps from our neighbor's butchering cows and our chickens.. Just to be on the safe side..
 

hexe,

if the psuedorabies is in the area wouldn't it be an issue all over the area. its highly contagious. spores in the snot can live for hours and travel long distances. It can live for days in fecal matter and other wet places like high grass/swampy areas. And being that there is a laundry list of domestic and wild animals susceptible to infection wouldnt it simply be known, when there is an outbreak?


Im genuinely asking here as all ive read and studied on this disease is it spreads quickly and generally is deadly. Even in pigs as it could kill off entire herds.

And i thought this was killed off nearly a decade ago?

LOL....I can relate.....I was  a lousy farmer as well.....all of our chickens had names.
Finally took the roosters to the local feed store and gave them away because I couldn't kill them and if a family member did it for me, I couldn't eat it.

I would never feed raw pork to my dogs.....to much crap to worry about.....but that's just me.

samael28, no, if there is pseudorabies or swine brucellosis in the feral population it won't necessarily manifested in the domestic hog population; for example, I know first-hand that there is both pseudorabies AND swine brucellosis in the feral hogs in Florida, yet the state is considered to be free of both diseases as far as the domestic swine population is concerned because the only swine operations that are considered when it comes to state status for the disease are what are termed 'commercial' swine herds--that is, swine operations that are 100% confinement operations where the pigs have no access to the outdoors whatsoever, and therefore can't come into contact with feral swine. Under ideal circumstances, the virus [of the family of herpesviruses] can persist outside of the live animal for up to two weeks, but generally speaking, it is easily inactivated by heat and humidity and tends not to survive more than a few hours at best on fomites [wood, straw, grass, soil or even fecal material that isn't in slurry form in a manure lagoon], and even less time in aerosolized droplets of moisture from the respirations of infected hogs.  The strains in the US typically do not cause high mortality in affected swine, and in truth the usual effect of the disease in domestic swineherds was to slow the growth rate in young pigs so it took more time and feed to grow them up to market weight. 

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a resurgence of both diseases now that the slaughter surveillance program has been greatly scaled back in the past few years; samples are being collected only at the large swine slaughter plants now, so the sampling is now limited to the swine raised in large commercial confinement operations.  The diseases will therefore have the opportunity to become re-established in the smaller operations that still keep swine outdoors, be they drylots or pastured, because by the time it's detected in those herds, it will have had time to spread.  Thus my cautioning anyone wishing to feed feral swine meat or by-products to not feed it raw, but rather at least par-boil it to inactivate the viruses.



 

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