Deer bones OK for dogs?

[KidMoe]

I'll be butchering my deer tonight and i'm wondering if I give my dog some of the bigger bones? Do you need to dry them our first? Mostly I'm trying to find as many uses for the animal as possible. The hide is going to Uber's and the meat of course, but I'm also looking for other ideas.

[Eric Wettschreck]

I have a big dog and he pretty much loves butcher day. He eats all the legs, bones, heads, pretty much everything that goes in the scrap pile with the exception of the rib cage and spine.

Last monday we butchered 7 deer. Yesterday we cut up a couple more. My back yard looks like some really creepy weird people live there with all the body parts laying around, but the dog sure is happy.

Fair warning, venison gives my dog some pretty awful gas.

Is this good for him? I dunno but he's been eating deer parts for many years and he seems his normal goofey self.

[TruthWalleyes]

My back yard looks like some really creepy weird people live there with all the body parts laying around, but the dog sure is happy.

That's what i think when i drive in.

Our dogs ate deer and beef legs/body parts this weekend. They'll live...happy

[westb]

A few years ago I found my perfectly healthy lab dead in her dog house. I figured someone must of poisoned her so I had an autopsy done and found out that the deer leg bone that I gave her had splintered and tore her stomach apart. Probably not very common but I will never take that chance again.

[Lunker]

My brothers lab had to have surgery to remove a piece of deer hoof that lodged in the intestine. He had found the bones in the woods, he wasn't given them. Again, probably not a common occurrence but a risk. I do give my dog beef bones but that's it.

[fr0sty]

I give our dog deer femur bones to chew.

[walleyeking19]

I gave my brother's dog the entire lower half of the leg and he just sat there and chewed the fur off.

[InTheNorthwoods]

Wolves and coyotes eat lots of deer bones and seem to do okay. At the same time, any dog who lives in a rural setting probably already eats the bones and it would be tough to stop them unless they are constantly chained/kenneled.

[walleye18]

as posted prior, venison may give your dog some awful gas" and the squirts.....been there...experienced that with my piggies.

[Gordie]

as posted prior, venison may give your dog some awful gas" and the squirts.....been there...experienced that with my piggies.

Ditto and I have one lab that will eat veni scrapes all day then puke it up all night, not fun in the morning . I have let them knaw on the bones with out incident.

[Scott K]

I will let them chomp on a leg bone until I am done cleaning deer. After that, I take it all away.

[corncob]

If your dog suddenly is given large amounts of venison {or pork, or beef , or chickens}the odds are he is going to get sick just from gorging...In moderation, no problems.

[Todd Caswell]

I will let them chomp on a leg bone until I am done cleaning deer. After that, I take it all away.

Bingo theres your answer, no different than going to the butcher and buying beef femer bones, give them for 15 to 20 minutes supervised and then back in the freezer, to be chewed on another day..

[Eric Wettschreck]

Reading some of the replies makes me wonder if what the dog is used to makes a difference.

For example, I don't live on a farm but I'm darn close. My dog is used to just about everything he can get his jaws on. If it ambles into the yard he's going to eat it. Rabbits, coons, possoms, cats, skunks, and yes............he tangled with a yote a few years back and won, and he eats what he kills.

Yeah, venison gives him gas but I think just breathing gives him gas. The bambi bones don't seem to bother him a bit but he's also used to a very mixed diet.

[walleye18]

I like the yote deal....must been a good old brawl!

[Scott K]

It is the high protein that gives them the gas. SO the less meat that is on it, the less it will bother their stomachs.

[KidMoe]

Thanks for all the feedback!! I think I'll probably do as someone suggested, just give him the femur and only for a little while at a time. My dog doesn't get anything but what we give him and absolutely no people food! So I think he'll like the treat.