Depends. How old are the bigger dogs? Assuming they were fed kibble all of their lives. The older the dog and the longer he has been exposed to the wrong diet and over-vaccinations, the longer it will take for the detox to level off. My 12 year old male (chronic systemic yeast infection) is so severely damaged that he still experiences bouts of flare ups. Meaning, he's STILL expelling his yeast toxins through his skin even after 1.5 years of raw eating and non vaccinating! But those flare ups are becoming shorter lived and are getting further in between.
"Poop patrol" is very important during the first stages of switching until all dogs have eaten everything off the "menu" and you know how each reacts. A friend of mine got her Rottweiler puppy a month ago at 7 weeks old and this dog had diarrhea for two full weeks on prey model until it was discovered that she had coccodia coming from the breeder already. But before we assume anything, implement the "tweaking" that you may have heard about in prey model circles. Meaning, you need to experiment with different approaches as all dogs are different. For example; My senior yorkie gets stopped up if he gets too much bone so I add more organ and boneless meats to his diet. My second yorkie vomits and gets the poops if she eats too much chicken skin so I take some of it off for her. My puppy LOVES tripe but if she gets too much of that.... oh boy, out come the latex gloves
! All of my dogs get stinky gas and pudding poops on pork so I make sure I only feed them lean pork cuts or the bone alone to supplement with boneless whatever pieces.
The food you're listing here sounds all great, but are they consuming all of the bones as well? Are you adding any organ meats at all yet or anything else? You might want to try removing the chicken skin for the lose stool dogs and if that doesn't firm things up for them then it might be time to go the Vet with stool samples for a fecal on worms/parasites. But before we jump to conclusions, have your dogs recently been vaccinated at all or de-wormed? Heartworm pills? Flea/tick prevention? All of those things can interfere with a dog's digestive system and are in my opinion and experience counter productive to what we're trying to achieve as raw feeders; healthy dogs!
Nadia
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Originally Posted by YorkieChick1  I started raw over 12 days ago and 3 of my dogs, the smallest ones, have nice small poops. But my 2 bigger dogs, 10 lbs, still have very slimy stinky poops. Are they still detoxing after 12 days? They have both been eating chicken drumsticks, thighs and breasts. |