Any body feed their dogs hog?

merlecore · Post by **merlecore** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:34 pm

i don't know much about hog hunting, other than i want to do it someday. i was wondering If i ever get the chance to hunt them, can i feed my dogs the hog meat? it seems to make a lot of sense, but then again i've never done so. is anybody out there feeding their dogs wild hog?

tedsmith · Post by **tedsmith** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:38 am

I have friend that hog hunts he feeds hog meat, says the dogs stay fat on it.

artrodex · Post by **artrodex** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:21 pm

if you cook well why not?

Outlaw 3 · Post by **Outlaw 3** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:49 pm

Yes I feed it and bear and deer meat to them all the time. I take a big cauldron and build a fire under it and let is cook overnight. It will smell so good you will want to eat it yourself. You can put some taters in with it for filler. I do not feed them a whole lot of raw meat however.

broncobilly · Post by **broncobilly** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:32 pm

You can feed it raw or cooked. If you feed it raw you will need a better worming program.

hamilton10 · Post by **hamilton10** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:42 pm

Yes and I feed it to myself also. Raised 3 kids and my first ex-wife on it. You can feed it to the dogs raw, boil it and add cornmeal to thicken the water. I buy 100 lb sacks of cornmeal and cook up a wash kettle full about once a week. Just cut the meat up in 2'' chunks and boil it until done then stir in cornmeal until thick and let cool. It will be pretty firm when it cools and I use a shovel to get it out and feed the dogs. Oh and add a little salt to it also. They will do real good on it and love the taste. Some times I will stir in a gallon or so of good commercial dog food before I add the cornmeal. I have been know to stir in a gallon of horse and mule feed too. My dogs go around eating the horse and mule off the ground where it fell out of ole Betsy and Kitty's mouth so I know it won't hurt them.

merlecore · Post by **merlecore** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:55 pm

economicaly this makes sense to me, its good to know there are guys out there with the same line of thinking, i hope i continue to recieve responses, and i really enjoy reading the routine of other houndsmen.

hamilton10 wrote:Yes and I feed it to myself also. Raised 3 kids and my first ex-wife on it. You can feed it to the dogs raw, boil it and add cornmeal to thicken the water. I buy 100 lb sacks of cornmeal and cook up a wash kettle full about once a week. Just cut the meat up in 2'' chunks and boil it until done then stir in cornmeal until thick and let cool. It will be pretty firm when it cools and I use a shovel to get it out and feed the dogs. Oh and add a little salt to it also. They will do real good on it and love the taste. Some times I will stir in a gallon or so of good commercial dog food before I add the cornmeal. I have been know to stir in a gallon of horse and mule feed too. My dogs go around eating the horse and mule off the ground where it fell out of ole Betsy and Kitty's mouth so I know it won't hurt them.

hamilton-if it werent for the horse and mule feed i'd say you should invite me over for dinner, that sounds pretty good! if i get the chance to live in states where pig thrives, i'll be sure to remember this recipe
do you have to feed them more of your mix than you would normal dog food? i suppose pig is pretty cheap if you stick them.
thanks for your input, i really enjoyed it!

Bucunter1983 · Post by **Bucunter1983** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:43 pm

Cooking it defeats the purpose of feeding the meat, it loses all of its nutritional value if you cook it. All you should do is freeze it for a week or so then feed it. I always leave a lil hide to help digestation, I really like it when we run up on a buch of shoats, Ill gut em and freeze them whole and feed it to the dogs whole, bones and all.

jkcasey · Post by **jkcasey** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:46 am

We kill alot of critters all year long, whatever the family and I don't eat, the dogs do. I never cook it for the dogs and they seem to like it that way. I just take it out of the freezer and let it thaw. I mostly mix it with a little dog food. I use ivo. once every three months with no issues.

Tim Pittman · Post by **Tim Pittman** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:45 am

used to feed iot alot.Broncobilly hit it on the head,you better step up the worming progam if you feed it raw.I'd cook it in a 55 gallon drum with corn meal,carrots,cellerey,radish's,apples,and leave it as fatty as possible.
Tim

Outlaw 3 · Post by **Outlaw 3** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:48 am

If cooking meat took out all the nutritional value then my dogs would have starved to death a long time ago. So would you and I for that matter. Meat, cooked or not, is full of protein. I don't cook it well done or burn it. It looks like a steak cooked medium.

boardog · Post by **boardog** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:13 pm

the majority of the hogs i take are fed to the dogs. always raw.. never had a worm issue. not that i think there is something wrong or bad with cooking it.....im just not going to cook them dinner. ill give the heart to the dog that found the hog and while im gutting and skinning i always toss chunks here and there to em. with a yard full of dogs one hog is gone in a few days.l

Outlaw 3 · Post by **Outlaw 3** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:43 pm

I do the same thing when I am gutting or skinning a bear or hog I will throw them chunks to eat on, but I do cook some of the blood out of it when I am feeding it for multiple meals.

Bucunter1983 · Post by **Bucunter1983** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:00 pm

Outlaw 3 wrote:If cooking meat took out all the nutritional value then my dogs would have starved to death a long time ago. So would you and I for that matter. Meat, cooked or not, is full of protein. I don't cook it well done or burn it. It looks like a steak cooked medium.

Okay, now on to the effects of heat.
If you burn your finger, what happens? The skin tissue dies. Overly apply heat to food and the nutrients are progressively killed/destroyed. It should be well understood and recognized in scientific literature that heat breaks down vitamins, amino acids and produces undesirable cross-linkages in proteins, particularly in meat.

At 110 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately 43 degrees Centigrade), two of the 8 essential amino acids, tryptophan and lysine, are destroyed.

When food is cooked above 117 degrees F for only three minutes or longer,the following deleterious changes begin and progressively cause increased nutritional damage as higher temperatures are applied over prolonged periods of time:

*proteins coagulate
*high temperatures denature protein molecular structure, leading to deficiency of some essential amino acids
*carbohydrates caramelize
*overly heated fats generate numerous carcinogens including acrolein, nitrosamines, hydrocarbons, and benzopyrene (one of the most potent cancer-causing agents known)
*natural fibers break down, cellulose is completely changed from its natural condition: it loses its ability to sweep the alimentary canal clean
*30% to 50% of vitamins and minerals are destroyed
*100% of enzymes are damaged, the body's enzyme potential is depleted which drains energy needed to maintain and repair tissue and organ systems, thereby shortening the life span.
Heres the link http://www.thewholedog.org/artcookedfood.html

catchrcall · Post by **catchrcall** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:28 am

If we wind up with a bunch of shoats that I don't feel like cleaning a lot of times I'll just throw a whole quarter in the pen hide, hoof and all. Dogs do fine on it and haven't had worm problems, but I worm every month so maybe the wormer is just getting them. Other than that, if the people freezer is full what we catch goes in the dog freezer and gets thawed out as I need it.

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