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Offline Sue67

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Pilchards - How Often?
« on: April 25, 2007, 06:08:11 PM »
Due to reading other threads on here, I tried Indy with pilchards in tomato sauce, needless to say, she loves them, though I don't love her breath afterwards.

She has them 1 or 2 times a week as half of one of her normal meals, (she's fed twice a day), can you give them more often, or just keep them as a weekly treat?

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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2007, 08:18:55 PM »
Beau has pilchards in tomato sauce about once a week, I did try letting him have them more often but then he started refusing his normal meals so we went back to once a week - it's his Saturday Special  :005:
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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2007, 08:30:04 PM »
I'm a once or twice a week person,  I couldn't stand the smell any more than that ph34r

Personally I wouldn't feed the sunflower ones too much I think the sunflower can act as a bit of a laxative effect :005: So try and drain quite a bit of the oil off.
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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2007, 08:33:32 PM »
Yep a couple of times a week here too.  Blue has both pilchards & sardines in tomato sauce.  One meal he has mixed in with his dried food and another meal I mix with pasta.  Unfortunately he stinks if his ears go in the bowl  ::)
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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2007, 08:35:05 PM »
Like Lisa, I feed Fern pilchards in tomato sauce with a raw egg and shell crunched up about once every 7-10 days. I can't stand the strinky breath more often than that either  :lol:.
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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2007, 08:57:50 PM »
Isn't egg shell quite sharp!  Sorry to ask a silly question but what's the benefit (just curious)
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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2007, 09:05:30 PM »
Quote from: cockahoot on April 25, 2007, 08:57:50 PM
Isn't egg shell quite sharp!  Sorry to ask a silly question but what's the benefit (just curious)
Calcium and minerals. Fern is BARF fed so is quite used to crunching raw bones. A dogs digestive system is quite different to ours and eggshell and raw bones are easily digested providing the dog crunches them up well  :D .
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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2007, 09:07:33 PM »
Mine have sardines or pilchards once a week, usually on Saturday mornings as a treat. Sometimes Alfie will have them more than once though if I forget to take his barf out of the freezer  :005:  They also have them with a raw egg a la Happydog  :D
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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2007, 09:35:41 PM »
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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2007, 09:41:04 PM »
Jersey gets two sardines every day mixed in with her food to encourage her to eat  ::)
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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2007, 09:47:47 PM »
Coco has either pilchards or sardines in tomato sauce about once a week - also with an egg on top.  Can't persuade her to eat the shell though as she is a fussy little so and so  ::)
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Re: Pilchards - How Often?
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2007, 06:28:38 PM »
stella has 1 a day with her lunch
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