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You really should not feed chicken bones to a day. The fragments can be very sharp and cause medical problems. http://www.vetblog.net/2013/07/dog.swallowed.chi

You really should not feed chicken bones to a day. The fragments can be very sharp and cause medical problems. http://www.vetblog.net/2013/07/dog.swallowed.chicken.bone.problem.html http://www.vetblog.net/2013/07/dog.swallowed.chicken.bone.pr... http://keepthetailwagging.com/dont-panic-when-a-dog-eats-a-cooked-chicken-bone/ http://keepthetailwagging.com/dont-panic-when-a-dog-eats-a-c...

lj3 10y ago
That only applies to cooked chicken bones, not raw ones.
taxicabjesus 10y ago
She did fine with the bones when she was a puppy. In theory, raw chicken bones shatter less than cooked chicken bones. As I said elsewhere, she now eats regular dog food. When I'm visiting, I'll cut the cartilage off the end of a cooked chicken bone and give that to her. Sometimes she still helps herself to whatever bones she finds, and she hasn't had any problems. Size might be a factor - she is about 75 pounds. My dad's previous dog ate corn cobs. After years of this, a corn cob got stuck in his throat, leading to a big vet bill, so our dogs don't get corn cobs anymore.
MustardTiger 10y ago
This is a misconception largely born from thanksgiving and christmas time warnings. The issue is cooked bones from anything, not just poultry. Cooked cattle or pig or goat or sheep or lizard or whatever all post the exact same hazard. In much searching, I was not able to find any credible evidence that raw bones pose a threat.
danieltillett 10y ago
Chickens don’t have bones anymore - they grow so fast that there is not time for the bones to mineralise. My brother and I used to always break the wishbone with each other whenever we had a roast chicken when we were kids. I tried about a year ago to do this with my kids and it was impossible.
- refurb 10y ago
  Every chicken I've ever cooked, including the one last night had bones. We're talking bones that take a lot of force to break.
  - danieltillett 10y ago
    They have pseudo-bones (basically just cartilage with minor mineralisation). These “bones” are nothing like they were like 40 years ago. This cartilage is of course tough, but try cracking a wishbone of a modern meat chicken - it just bends rather than snaps. Interestingly the growth rate of modern meat chickens is limited to bone mineralisation rate. If you breed a chicken with faster growth rates (which you can do) they end up with broken legs as the bone can’t support the weight of the bird [1]. 1. http://japr.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/138.full.pdf http://japr.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/138.full.pdf
jrs235 10y ago
Raw chicken bones are "chewy" and not brittle. Its cooked/dried bones that you shouldn't feed to dogs.

lj3 10y ago

That only applies to cooked chicken bones, not raw ones.

taxicabjesus 10y ago

She did fine with the bones when she was a puppy. In theory, raw chicken bones shatter less than cooked chicken bones. As I said elsewhere, she now eats regular dog food. When I'm visiting, I'll cut the cartilage off the end of a cooked chicken bone and give that to her. Sometimes she still helps herself to whatever bones she finds, and she hasn't had any problems. Size might be a factor - she is about 75 pounds. My dad's previous dog ate corn cobs. After years of this, a corn cob got stuck in his throat, leading to a big vet bill, so our dogs don't get corn cobs anymore.

MustardTiger 10y ago

This is a misconception largely born from thanksgiving and christmas time warnings. The issue is cooked bones from anything, not just poultry. Cooked cattle or pig or goat or sheep or lizard or whatever all post the exact same hazard. In much searching, I was not able to find any credible evidence that raw bones pose a threat.

danieltillett 10y ago

Chickens don’t have bones anymore - they grow so fast that there is not time for the bones to mineralise. My brother and I used to always break the wishbone with each other whenever we had a roast chicken when we were kids. I tried about a year ago to do this with my kids and it was impossible.

refurb 10y ago
Every chicken I've ever cooked, including the one last night had bones. We're talking bones that take a lot of force to break.
- danieltillett 10y ago
  They have pseudo-bones (basically just cartilage with minor mineralisation). These “bones” are nothing like they were like 40 years ago. This cartilage is of course tough, but try cracking a wishbone of a modern meat chicken - it just bends rather than snaps. Interestingly the growth rate of modern meat chickens is limited to bone mineralisation rate. If you breed a chicken with faster growth rates (which you can do) they end up with broken legs as the bone can’t support the weight of the bird [1]. 1. http://japr.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/138.full.pdf http://japr.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/138.full.pdf

jrs235 10y ago

Raw chicken bones are "chewy" and not brittle. Its cooked/dried bones that you shouldn't feed to dogs.