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Originally Posted by grayxie
(Post 1429906)
So I finally remembered to get Chip some chicken feet for him to try. Now my question is how do I serve it to him? Normally when I clean chicken parts for dinner I scrub it with some salt an then rinse. After I wash the feet should I freeze them or just refrigerate and then serve?
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Hi :) Glad you
ummmm....took the chicken by the foot
<smile>. Chip will love you for it. :) Prepare the rest of the chicken however you need for your family; but it is
unadvisable to salt any meat you feed your dog. Remember: dogs are
not people. I do freeze mine; but, just because Mozart prefers all his meals frozen or partially/frozen. I thaw them for Abigail, because of concern about sudden drop in her inner core temp. Try Chip both ways. I think Mozart enjoys them as chickenfoot sicles ;). Oh...and, don't worry about the nails. Don't bother clipping them off, as they will digest with no problem, just like bones do.
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Originally Posted by grayxie
(Post 1430877)
Would like to get back to the main topic at hand not your related stories, thank you.
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We can thank all the "icking", and "gacking" for bumping your thread up, else I probably would have missed it. So, thanks, everyone! Oh! Can you stand one more funny chicken story? 'Cause I have a good chicken foot story :D. A friend brought her two Yorkies over (she knows I feed RAW), and we tried them on the chicken feet. They scarfed them down, like they hadn't eaten in a week!
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Originally Posted by Magneticgal
(Post 1439114)
I have heard that chicken feet ARE a great source of glucosamine. This is supposed to really help with arthritis. I am going to get the actual glucosamine tabs and try those, as opposed to cooking the chicken feet.
Lex was just diagnosed with a luxating patella (VERY mild) and I want to help strengthen her joints as much as I can, to prevent it from becoming worse. I think THIS is where the whole chicken feet thing started- that is good because of the glucosamine.
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Right, again. They are rich in Glucosamine and Chondriotin, according to the experts I have been reading, that have fed RAW for many years. But do NOT COOK them. Cooking will destroy what nutritive value they have in their raw state. I feed them maybe twice a week, but not as a meal in themselves. When I feed chicken feet, I make it an organ/feet meal, as they definitely need the organs in a prey model diet. BTW, both my dogs LOVE them! You may have seen where my Mozart (in his 12th year) was dragging his hind quarter before we switched to RAW about 5(?) years ago. He had stopped even trying to get up on the furniture. He's watching me from the sofa, now :), and he got on our bed twice last week -
by himself. I'm not saying that RAW is a cure-all for everything. But, from what I have experienced, and read from other people, it does seem to take care of many things we're told to just expect.
