Small pieces of bone in stool? - Page 1

I want to ask those who feed raw chicken necks and back (etc) often.

Do you think that all the bone are digested? Is it true that only a portion of the bone in necks and backs is digested? Do you see a lot of bones in the stool?

As much as I think dogs digestive juices are very acidic, I guess only a part of the bone is disgested.

What I am driving at really is calcium utility.

Thanks

I feed necks & backs quite frequently.  The stool is very small, dry and crumbly.  I have seen bone pieces but only very rarely, blue moon sort of thing.

Very little of the bone is actually digested. The harder, ossified material remains somewhat intact, although vital nutrients are removed from it as it passes through a dog's digestive system. Stomach acid softens the hard bone and makes it rubbery.

I would not be surprised to see small bone fragments in the stool after the ingestion of bone-especially heavy knuckle bones, etc.. If dogs eat very much bone, their stools will often be light-coloured and "crumbly". The danger of feeding too much bone is that a rubbery, undigestable mass of bone can lodge itself in the lower intestine and not allow partially-digested food to pass through.

But within reason, raw "green" bone, especially raw chicken necks, is excellent nutrition for a dog.

Best Regards,

Bob-O