Rabbit / Wildfowl etc - BARF question

[Annette]

i just picked up some rabbit about an hour ago - so we will see how the H boy tackles that tomorrow once it has defrosted.

Would love to find a local game supplier 

Prompted by this thread I have just contacted a local estate. I think they have shooting there so wonder whether there is anyone there who might be able to help me. Local butchers really are useless, and now that I can't/won't buy cheap chicken, Buddy's bone supply has dwindled to nil!

[CarolineL]

What did the estate have to say Annette?

Have you asked your local butcher if they do wild rabbit??? Another of my local butchers also does pet sticks, which is all the off cuts put in a sausage skin and then frozen - all for £1!!!

[LesleyW]

do you not have a local market nearby?  Our market has a very good farm shop, who specialises in free-range chook, wild rabbit and venison etc....can be a bit pricey, unles you can buy in bulk, but he also does bags of wings really cheaply....

[Cob-Web]

do you not have a local market nearby?  Our market has a very good farm shop, who specialises in free-range chook, wild rabbit and venison etc....can be a bit pricey, unles you can buy in bulk, but he also does bags of wings really cheaply....

Are they free-range wings?    I got caught out by my our local butcher once - he stocks local produce, by when I asked him for chicken wings, he brought out a box labelled up from Norfolk 

[Annette]

What did the estate have to say Annette?

Have you asked your local butcher if they do wild rabbit??? Another of my local butchers also does pet sticks, which is all the off cuts put in a sausage skin and then frozen - all for £1!!!

My local butchers are dreadful. I wanted lamb ribs once and they tried to charge me the same as for breast of lamb! Honestly!!!!

Whenever I ask for bones they say that I should have asked "yesterday". Further afield, in Pangbourne, the butcher only offered me a cow's pelvis once and said he was too busy to cut it up (I was alone apart from the 3 butchers!)

I think it must be me


My request to the estate has been sent on to the head gamekeeper so I may be in with a chance.

[Cazzie]

What did the estate have to say Annette?

Have you asked your local butcher if they do wild rabbit??? Another of my local butchers also does pet sticks, which is all the off cuts put in a sausage skin and then frozen - all for £1!!!

My local butchers are dreadful. I wanted lamb ribs once and they tried to charge me the same as for breast of lamb! Honestly!!!!

Whenever I ask for bones they say that I should have asked "yesterday". Further afiels, in Pangbourne, they butcher only offerend me a cow's pelvis once and said he was too busy to cut it up (I was alone apart from the 3 butchers!)

I think it must be me


My request to the estate has been sent on to the head gamekeeper so I may be in with a chance.

You could take up beating Annette, then you would get all you wanted   

[screamingswifts]

Prompted by this thread I have just contacted a local estate. I think they have shooting there so wonder whether there is anyone there who might be able to help me. Local butchers really are useless, and now that I can't/won't buy cheap chicken, Buddy's bone supply has dwindled to nil!

Same here, as in I won't buy meat unless it's free range - have you looked here?

http://www.sheepdroveshop.com/acatalog/Chicken.html

Not the cheapest, but they are very good for wings/carcasses/necks and their 'doggy bags'. they deliver nation wide I believe.

[phoenix]

Bobby says I want a squirrel BARF diet but every day it makes it up the tree in time. Got one of the pet chickens by the neck yesterday but mum made me let it go. . I was only sitting on it, honest!
My vet says the latest thinking in publications on dog gut disorders is that is just about all of it comes down to allergies and modern diet, ie BARF feeders are right!!!!! Shame we don't all have friendly gamekeepers and caring butchers. Pet chickens beware!

[Cazzie]

Bobby says I want a squirrel BARF diet but every day it makes it up the tree in time. Got one of the pet chickens by the neck yesterday but mum made me let it go. . I was only sitting on it, honest!
My vet says the latest thinking in publications on dog gut disorders is that is just about all of it comes down to allergies and modern diet, ie BARF feeders are right!!!!! Shame we don't all have friendly gamekeepers and caring butchers. Pet chickens beware!

Same could be said for the modern human diet, but you wont get me going back to eating like a cave man 

[Cob-Web]

Bobby says I want a squirrel BARF diet but every day it makes it up the tree in time. Got one of the pet chickens by the neck yesterday but mum made me let it go. . I was only sitting on it, honest!
My vet says the latest thinking in publications on dog gut disorders is that is just about all of it comes down to allergies and modern diet, ie BARF feeders are right!!!!! Shame we don't all have friendly gamekeepers and caring butchers. Pet chickens beware!

Same could be said for the modern human diet, but you wont get me going back to eating like a cave man 

Why not?  Free range meat, fish, and loads of fresh fruit, veg and leaves - sounds like the sort of diet my GP keeps recommending 

[Cazzie]

Bobby says I want a squirrel BARF diet but every day it makes it up the tree in time. Got one of the pet chickens by the neck yesterday but mum made me let it go. . I was only sitting on it, honest!
My vet says the latest thinking in publications on dog gut disorders is that is just about all of it comes down to allergies and modern diet, ie BARF feeders are right!!!!! Shame we don't all have friendly gamekeepers and caring butchers. Pet chickens beware!

Same could be said for the modern human diet, but you wont get me going back to eating like a cave man 

Why not?  Free range meat, fish, and loads of fresh fruit, veg and leaves - sounds like the sort of diet my GP keeps recommending 

What raw meat  Nah 

[Tasha]

I've eaten squirrel  I'd opt for Nicola's suggestion of eating the Venison yourself as well.  Bonnie gets ribs all the time but its a rich meat and will give them the squits if they aren't used to it so small amounts, don't worry about the bones they don't have any problems with them at all.  Ayla likes the feet for some reason as well they are like a huge prize.

I've never fed them goose if we've shot one of those it tends to get roasted and the dogs don't get any plus i don't feed game that i expect them to retrieve.  Rabbits on the other hand I skin and gut and just chuck them at the nearest dog or cat all mine except for graf like rabbit but he turns his nose up at it and refuses to eat it.

Don't forget to either give plenty of raw garlic or worm regularly.