Ground beef or chicken?

[BabieChloe]

I was just wondering if anyone feeds ground beef? (or lamb) My girl has been eating chicken since the day I brought her home and has never tried beef. (Just as snack/treat) I haven't tried to give her beef because it's more of a fatty meat but do they tend to like beef more than chicken? I was eating a steak the other day and she was sniffing around the table like crazy, lol.

[Dawn Arnold]

I feed raw and use Chicken, beef and lamb.

[ed and kathy]

I wean my pups on lamb and rice cereal and the parents now consider lamb a real treat. I use beef chicken or lamb mixed with green beans and carrots. They love it and their coats reflect a sheen without having to use additional products. ( other than shampoo and conditioner)

[Wylie's Mom]

Sure, dogs can have beef. Mine like all kinds of meat - bison, duck, chicken, beef, lamb.

[matese]

you can buy chop meat, the lowest fat you can find, at times my super market will carry 90% fat free, 85% is ok too. Boil it in a frying pan with enough water to cover the meat about an inch or so and keep mashing the chop meat, drain off the water, put the meat in a paper towel to absorb any extra fat and water. This was advised to me by my vet. You can also boil some rice and mixed the beef with rice just as you would boneless chicken breast.

[107barney]

Yes, they can eat beef. After speaking recently with my vet nutritionist about beef and diets and amino acid profiles and biochemistry and nitrogen and realizing how much more she knows than I can ever know, I put everyone back on chicken.

Also, she's not a garbage disposal so there is no need for her to eat your table scraps. There is nothing more annoying that dogs under food begging either.

[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by 107barney

Yes, they can eat beef. After speaking recently with my vet nutritionist about beef and diets and amino acid profiles and biochemistry and nitrogen and realizing how much more she knows than I can ever know, I put everyone back on chicken.

Also, she's not a garbage disposal so there is no need for her to eat your table scraps. There is nothing more annoying that dogs under food begging either.

I totally agree with the begging dogs....annoying!


You keep posting about feeding human food which is fine. But you really need to pick one. You should decide if properly home cooking with the help of a vet nutritionist is what you want to do for Chloe or feed kibble. When you are giving scrap from your dinner it is just throwing off a balanced diet. This is how Yorkies come down the pancreatitis and end up very sick and even die.

[joyce evans]

This is interesting. All of my dogs love their snacks and everyone knows how expensive and dangerous some of them can be. I think it's time to throwout the snackbox and start cookin.

[BabieChloe]

Originally Posted by matese

you can buy chop meat, the lowest fat you can find, at times my super market will carry 90% fat free, 85% is ok too. Boil it in a frying pan with enough water to cover the meat about an inch or so and keep mashing the chop meat, drain off the water, put the meat in a paper towel to absorb any extra fat and water. This was advised to me by my vet. You can also boil some rice and mixed the beef with rice just as you would boneless chicken breast.

Good idea


Thank you, everyone!

[joyce evans]

Ok..my fear is that all of my dogs will love this and they will stop eating their kibble. Anyone experience this ?

[chachi]

Ground beef has alot of fat in it

[BabieChloe]

Originally Posted by joyce evans

Ok..my fear is that all of my dogs will love this and they will stop eating their kibble. Anyone experience this ?

My girl stopped eating her dry food by itself after she got to taste people food. She does eat the dry food if something is mixed in. I never give her scraps, it's always cooked separately just for her. I think if your dogs eat their dry food fine and if you don't want to always have to feed people food with the dry food then don't give it. I always gave the people food together with the dry food so that might be a possibility of why my girl associated dry food with people food, though.

[joyce evans]

Originally Posted by BabieChloe

My girl stopped eating her dry food by itself after she got to taste people food. She does eat the dry food if something is mixed in. I never give her scraps, it's always cooked separately just for her. I think if your dogs eat their dry food fine and if you don't want to always have to feed people food with the dry food then don't give it. I always gave the people food together with the dry food so that might be a possibility of why my girl associated dry food with people food, though.

Hannah will be the one I would have to worry about. There are times when she will not eat her food out of her bowl and then act like she's starving.
She would eat a bowl of snacks with no problem. Little stinker doesn't know whats good for her.

[Teegy]

I feed my boys a variety of raw ground, they get bone in turkey, duck, rabbit with green tripe and organ meat. As for the whole meats, pork and beef brisket, lamb flank and chops, whole rabbit sliced, and they just love themselves a lovely meaty pork rib. The good thing about the beef brisket and lamb flank is the bone is soft cartlidge and easy for them to knaw and crunch. The lamb chop and pork rib bones, take a bit longer and they can sit for an hour knawing away on those. I make sure their is a proper balance in their daily meals and a constant variety in the proteins as this is very important in raw feeding.
Take your time transitioning in new proteins, as well as try to get grass fed or free range if possible. You want to ensure your dog doesn't have any food sensitivities, so feed only the new protein for a few weeks to ensure there is reaction to it.

[Teegy]

Originally Posted by joyce evans

Ok..my fear is that all of my dogs will love this and they will stop eating their kibble. Anyone experience this ?

I've heard of worse things than dogs preferring whole foods to a box of dry nuggets, it's like you eating a dry power bar over some fresh veg and a lovely bit of chicken. I wouldn't worry about them, I'd suggest speaking to your vet about home whole cooking if that's a route you would like. There is a lot of information available online from pet nutritionists.