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Nira Sky Puppy
Join date : 2012-02-21 Location : Upstate NY
| Subject: Nira and raw chicken Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:24 pm | |
| Nira has been on raw for 4 days. She has been eating chicken quarters. Days 1-3 she had two per day. Ate them with no issues. Yesterday she decided to eat half of breakfast and no dinner. Offered breakfast this morning still wont eat. Offered dinner and no go again. She sniffs it and walks away. I'm concerned about her not eating. I tried hand feeding,cutting up, searing, flavoring. All she will do is lick flavoring and leave chicken. Her bms have been good. Firm and small. She does drink less water. Seems to act normal and normal energy. Vomited slightly on day 2 at night after having heart guard.
Any suggestions? |
| | | Huskyluv Resident Nutritional Bookworm
Join date : 2009-06-23 Location : Huntsville, AL
| Subject: Re: Nira and raw chicken Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:09 am | |
| Keep at it, I wouldn't give in. If she is otherwise healthy then I'd stick it out and keep offering, eventually she'll get hungry and eat. _________________ |
| | | Kick Newborn
Join date : 2012-10-20 Location : UCLA
| Subject: Re: Nira and raw chicken Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:53 am | |
| Show some tough love.
Anyways, she may be self-regulating. The Siberian Husky's metabolism is weird...but im sure everything will be fine as long as she still exhibits the same amount of energy as normal, etc.
They do tend to drink less water because of the moisture content in raw meat, if that's what you're wondering about |
| | | Nira Sky Puppy
Join date : 2012-02-21 Location : Upstate NY
| Subject: Re: Nira and raw chicken Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:19 pm | |
| Update
This morning refused again
Tonight I cut all meat off bone into chunks and left the bones. She ate all meat butcwill not touch the bones. I then cut up all bones into smaller pieces after some karate chopping with a big knife LOL. She still will not eat the bone. Should I leave it all as one and make her work through the bone for the meat? I just don't get it. The first few days were fine. I don't suppose changing meat would help if the bones are the issue. I'm stumped. |
| | | Huskyluv Resident Nutritional Bookworm
Join date : 2009-06-23 Location : Huntsville, AL
| Subject: Re: Nira and raw chicken Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:31 pm | |
| I wouldn't cut the meat off the bone, she needs to eat the bone for the calcium otherwise you will need to give a calcium supplement. I say keep at it with the tough love, in the end it's for the best. _________________ |
| | | Nira Sky Puppy
Join date : 2012-02-21 Location : Upstate NY
| Subject: Re: Nira and raw chicken Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:40 pm | |
| Thanks for the support. I wont give in, even if today is her b day |
| | | huskynewbie Newborn
Join date : 2013-01-28 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Nira and raw chicken Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:48 pm | |
| I'm having this issue now too. Neeka seems to be chewing her meat with the bones in it, and chewing it again, and then spits it out, tries again, spits it out again and loses interest - she doesn't seem to be swallowing her food though. By the end of it I have a bunch of half chewed pieces of meat all over the floor by her bowl - EWW! I couldn't get to my chicken neck supplier so I got her some duck necks to try out...maybe she's just being finnicky? She's new to the raw food diet all together and she's 5...she's been on kibble all her life and was so excited and gobbled up the chicken with enthusiasm but I don't know what her issue is with raw now. I'm trying to do the tough love thing as per all of your suggestions. She didn't eat really much yesterday - just what I described above - and I didn't feed her breakfast today so hopefully she'll be hungry enough for dinner this evening. I'm going to see if switching to a meal once a day makes any difference to whether she wants to eat or not. I'm at a loss! |
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