Food that makes you go ...Hmmm.. - Page 5

 I remember that show! Scary, but that was usually fresher than what most of us get at the store,lol.

I only feed roadkill deer if I see it happen or can verify that it happened very recently (hours) and only in winter. 

You're a hell of a lady, Jen!

I'm intrigued and interested when threads like these arise. I came aboard a couple of months ago and a couple of my threads concerned food/diets."Back in the day" I too fed my dogs, Chows, Iams and they both lived past 17 yrs of age. My Male GSD I fed Iams up til March 2008 then after going through Explosive Detection Dog Handler school I switched over to Eukanuba 30/20. That is what the kennel was feeding my service dog. Now, I have heard the comments, the pros and cons and even questioned different foods with folks on the PDB. I'm contemplating raw but with three GSDs I think it'll be too costly. I listen to those who feed raw, I do and that is why I'm contemplating it. Now back on the Eukanuba; The kennel where the school was held fed ALL their dogs the 30/20 and we're talking gov't, local, state, Feds, OS and downrange service dogs. 30/20. For school, a class or two was strictly having a spokesperson from Eukanuba present specifically talking about/about the benefits of the 30/20 for our service dogs. I 'm happy with the results, their stools, their energy.

I don't want to play "Devils' Advocate" but I have looked into some of the foods authors on PDB have spoken of. I honestly can't say my dogs would do better on ....... then what they have now. Unfortunately I think of my dogs more then I think of most humans, so I believe they are doing just fine! I work between 18/19 hr days. Travel to/from puts me at @ 20/21 hrs, So when I do get a day off it's kinda nice to run down only a few miles to pick up the Eukanuba.
 

 Ok I didn't read 9/10ths of this thread, but my dogs have always done excellent when on TOTW, especially the Salmon. I don't know if it has to do with three of them being Huskies, but stools were always firm, not too big, hardly any odor at all.  Coats looked nice and shiny, breath smelled a little fishy though...go figure... And they didn't require much of the food either to keep weight up.  On the Bison though everyone had runny stools and could never handle it. I never tried the fowl.

I fed Eukanuba for YEARS, raised generations of dogs on the stuff. IN its day it was the best stuff on the market. All those show trophies the dogs I conditioned and showed won? Eukanuba, all the way... until P & G bought out the original private owners. Now I'd recommend Kirkland way before Eukanuba any day. Every lot has a different mix of ingredients nowadays, lower quality and higher price with every "new and improved" formula. The German Shepherd formula is one of the worst they make. You might as well sign your GSD up for the Bloat Boat as feed that crap.

Now I rotate the formulas of TOTW, have for the last 16 mos. or so. I do have one dog who gets a little soft stool while changing over from one formula to another, especially going TO the salmon recipe. Right now I've been feeding the "new" lamb-based recipe for about 4 mos. I am thrilled with the results- beautiful shiny coats, textbook perfect stools, tremendous energy and vigor...

I actually had to cut back 25-50% on the adults' daily rations, even now that the weather is cooler. Even my historically hard-to-keep-weight-on Bijou got FAT on 4 cups a day.

Yeah. TOTW is expensive, and some folks tell me I'm nuts to do without things most people think they can't live without in order to buy it for my dogs, but not having to feed so much of it, with the mild climate in California and the quality of the food, makes a big difference. Looking at the condition of my dogs, and running my hands through their soft, thick, shiny coats, proud of how I take care of my darlings, makes up for a lot of sacrifices.

I got exactly what I wanted for Christmas this year. You can probably guess its dog food.

The current litter that I have here now is eating the Solid Gold puppy food... their stools are really good and their coats look awesome.

alboe....you dont have to switch to 100% raw....why not just add it to their diet for variety..I bought 5 turkeys 40-45 pound each right after thanksgiving cost me under $50.00....and no its not butterball..LOL
I separated turkeys into legs, wings breast, backs bagged 3 similar size pieces into bags and froze it...now  i pull one bag out in the morning to defrost to feed 3 dogs in the evening..they get dry food in the morning  and evening except when i substitute dinner with raw 3 times a week...as of today I still have 2 turkeys left so it's not a bad deal and my dry food lasted me almost 2 weeks longer since thanksgiving. So when it comes to $ it pretty much breaks it even for you...and dogs absolutley love it.

Okay, this using deer on the side of the road is a good idea.  I see them all the time, unfortunately, but might as well make good of a sad situation.

Sooo, how do I go about this?  I know how to clean a bird, something as big as a deer I am not too sure about.

in a nut shell ----chop off head (major arteries must be open) and hang it up upside down...MUST drain blood..than skin it...and start chopping away....i would rinse every piece of meat with cold water for at least an hour prior to giving it to dogs...

LOL, sounds funny.   Okay, so does one feed the intestines, the stomach yes, but what of the bowel, throw that away?