Mincer

I have a nice big but quiet old "Hobart". size 22. I bought this on ebay, probably 10 years ago.
It minces if required; chicken carcuses, rabbits, pheasants. These do need to be chopped into smaller portions so that they can be pushed down the throat of the mincer with bones included and coarse mincing plates.
Most of our meats unless bought as pet mince are fed as chunks or left on the bone.
I mince lungs with liver, heart, kidneys (offal) a very rich mince!

 

I must admit, I hold chicken wings to make sure my dog doesn't eat them too fast. But he is quite chilled about that, not every dog would be.

 

Here is a pic of my puppy enjoying a chicken carcass aged 11 weeks,I also used to hold chicken wings until he realised how much he needed to chew an item of RMB but by 11 weeks the wings would only need to be crunched twice before he swallowed them whole

 

I weaned my pups straight onto raw and by five weeks they could crunch up chicken wings by themselves. It's really nice sitting with them, a pup on each foot, two on my lap, one either side of me, all eating their chicken wings.

Not that there is anything wrong with being cautious, so if you like to bash up the bones, that's fine. Just saying that little pups are much more competent at eating than we might think.

 

Unless you buy your fish from a pet food source, or else use tinned, always freeze it for a month or so then thaw out and feed. Fish sometimes contains nasties that cooking or freezing destroys. Only cook boneless fish.

Not to scare you - fish is a very good food.

 

My vet says that heart is muscle, well yes it is in it's own right, but it is totally different and far more rich than body muscle.
It is a working organ as lungs, kidneys, liver and only a small part of an animals anatomy. If you were to gut an animal carefully, let's say a sheep or a deer the "offal," which has the Heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, these can come out all hanging together. The colour and consistency of the heart is nothing like the remainder of the meat on the carcass. There are other parts of an animal that some will mention as "Offal", tongue, but that again is a "muscle" although not as rich as the heart, testicles, the rumen/tripe. There will be other bits and pieces that also come under the "offal" bracket, I'm sure someone will name some others.

Hmmm.

 

We could make a quiz out of this!

 

From my domestic science lessons way back in the '60s, "offal" meant "off all joints". So it means organ meat.