For a 15 week old pup I did give a chicken wing, chicken thigh bone, lamb ribs and occasionally chicken leg bones after their meat meal.
All my meat is fit for human consumption and I have only ever frozen it if I have bought excess, usually it is given straight away.
Watch the offal because if given too often he'll end up with loose stools again. I give it about 3 times per week.
Karen, can I just pick you brain a bit.
At the mo he's having mince, which is the PAH that has a bit of ground bone in, and Chicken wings. I am going to add in a little bit of offal in with his mince to begin with on three days, as you suggest. When you say you give a bone after their meat meal, would that be one, two or three times a day?
I am experimenting a bit because of his loose stools. Normally he gets two mince meals and one wing a day, with a little bit of veg. I was unsure if I should give him two wings every day but I had a feeling his loose stools was down to lack of bone, so I've started to give him two wings every other day, which resolves the loose stools the next day but returns back to loose the day after just 1 wing. Do you think it would be ok to give him two wings every day? Do you start feeding ribs at this age? Mine have pork ribs as I can't source lamb ribs.
My adult dogs are on 3 mince and veg, 2 offal and veg, 1 sardine and egg, 4 pork ribs and 4 chicken wing meals a week. Would you be feeding this variety at this age or would you keep it to mince with a bit of offal added and wing/s every day. I'm aiming to get him on the same menu as the adults by six months, would you do it then or before?
Do you feed your pups supplements? My adults are on Evening Primrose Oil, Salmon Oil and Keepers Mix. I wondered if these might make his stools loose so stopped them while I got him on an even keel then I'll introduce again one at a time.
Final question, do you find they need to stop bones when they are teething? I did think so, but then when I thought about it all of mine have loves to chew on concrete when teething so would bones be that removed?!
Sorry for the questions, just anxious to get lots of opinions and to know if I can alter what he's on now a bit so that it might suit him better while making sure that he's getting everything that he needs.