They arrive, are cut & stored frozen at the grocer - I bring them home & put each slice into a baggie, put about 14 in each grocery bag -> the carton of neck bones sliced usually yields me 5 or 6 bags of bones - which I feed one daily -
For my berner - he gets one each morning, frozen, straight from the freezer - he loves it - seems to think it is a wonderful popsicle -
For my cavaliers - I thaw the bones, trim quite a bit of the meat off & feed one bone each, trimmed down <grin>
In the afternoon I feed kibble - and for the Cavaliers, I cut the trimmed meat into small pieces & mix it with their kibble.
If the slice was small - I'll give my berner a 2nd frozen bone - with all the meat on it - in the afternoon, too -
I find my dogs keep in good condition, good coat, clean teeth -
Yes - the yard needs to be picked up often - and looks a bit like a graveyard that's been dug up - but - that's ok - the dogs LOVE it!
There is quite a bit of meat on these slices - and I find the dogs eat much less kibble when they have the bones - Also, neck bones are less dense, easier to chew - so the dogs get more nutrition, in addition to the chewing exercise - And even my vet, who is against feeding bones in general, says 1 inch bones aren't such a problem <grin>
Good luck!
Joan Robinson
Ray & Pat Burgett wrote:
We like knuckle bones and when the stores have the rack of beef ribs on sale we would buy them. Trim off the excess fat as it tends to loosen them up some ;-(. Of course we only buy if we run out of bones from the beef we have butchered. Our yard looks like a dig for prehistoric animals with all the back , neck and various bones laying around. But the teeth stay clean and the dogs love to play take away with each other.Ray & Pat Burgett Eaglecap Bernese Talee,Lexi,,Bell, Shadow & Max www.goodbernerfood.com http://users.eoni.com/~eaglecap/ Draminski Ovulation Detector Rep
