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by Bob McKown on 25 July 2011 - 14:07

I was at my Butchers getting bones pick up for the dogs this Saturday while I was back in the cooler I noticed a large plastic container with what my buther called bone dust. It is actually bone dust from cutting, marrow,meat and fat cleaned from the band saw. He said the coon hunters used to get it to feed to there dogs. I looked at it closley and was wondeing if it might be a good extra feeding product?. It,s clean and even smells better then most canned food I,ve smelled. Any thoughts ?

by gucci on 25 July 2011 - 15:07

Bob, I have used it, it is great in preventing loose stools also. Lida

by gagsd4 on 25 July 2011 - 15:07

I feed bone meal (bought from a human grade food store, so maybe not quite the same) when I feed raw meals with no bone. I think it is about 1 tsp per adult dog to give the right amount of calcium and phospohorus.
Not brave enough to supplement growing pups with bone meal powder. Them I just give goats milk, yogurt, cottage cheese and bone.

by isachev on 25 July 2011 - 16:07

I don't see any problem with it. Why would there be? It's just what we feed anyhow, just scraps. Wish I could find some. Pete

by gagsd4 on 25 July 2011 - 17:07

The problem would be feeding concentrated bone meal... calcium/phosphorus... particularly to growing dogs. Assuming that is what Bob is talking about.
Mary

by duke1965 on 25 July 2011 - 18:07

mary , there is no problem as long as it is from a natural source , the problems come from artificial sources used in dogfood

by Bob McKown on 25 July 2011 - 18:07

I can get it for free, I,m thinking about using it to supplement there food source maybe 3 or 4 times a week instead of kibble. Not a steady diet of it. It would be for adults and young dogs 15 weeks old.

by myret on 26 July 2011 - 18:07

if its the naturel source no problem other wise don't use it

by Niesia on 26 July 2011 - 20:07

Sawdust from the butcher is the best thing ever. My raw meat mixture consists of 25% of sawdust -that also gives perfect firmness to the stools. All my puppies are weaned on a raw with saw dust additive and I don’t have any problems. But I keep them on SureGrow100 thru grow period, too.
My butcher used to throw out tons of this stuff until I started to buy it from him. Now he includes it in all of this dog food and you pay the same for the sawdust as for meat.

Sawdust is not a good substitute for food. It’s a great additive but I wouldn’t feed it alone as a meal. Dogs may get constipated. Sawdust naturally acts a bit like glue that they add to commercial kibble.

by Niesia on 26 July 2011 - 20:07

BTW - sawdust spoils very quickly, even in a fridge. I keep it always frozen.

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