vension, duck, rabbit

• vension, duck, rabbit Shelley75 Posted : 6/12/2006 6:54:01 PM I homecook for my dog.  I am going to buy vension and then duck and rabbit.  How would I cook these for my dog.  Do I boil vension?  It's not ground vension.  It's boneless vension diced up.  How would I cook duck breast and rabbit meat which are also diced up?  Do I just boil everything? LIKE 12 REPLIES 965 VIEWS LAST POST JORDAN PHILPOTT Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• papillon806 Posted : 6/12/2006 7:48:53 PM Boiling is the best way to do it for any meat when making homecooked meals. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Shelley75 Posted : 6/12/2006 7:58:18 PM Thanks papillon.  Do you know how long I should boil each?  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jennie_c_d Posted : 6/12/2006 7:58:24 PM I agree, boiling is the easiest way, but don't throw away the water! There are valuable nutrients left in there. Cook your veggies, and/or grains, in the water, and mix it into the whole batch, to make it mushy.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• papillon806 Posted : 6/12/2006 8:05:58 PM I would just boil it until the redness is gone...it depends on how much you are boiling at a time. But I agree with jennie_c_d on the saving the water you cook it in....very good for them! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• M.W.Lewis Posted : 6/15/2006 4:41:35 PM It's hard to cook rabbit, so many little bones to remove afterward! If you can get the boneless (the hare-today site may sell it boneless) that's probably easier (if such a thing is available). I cooked rabbit for a few batches and then gave up [&:] instead I'm keeping a few cans of Evengers rabbit meat on hand if needed.  I often boil meats though, as suggested above. I then whirl them in the food processor after deboning them. Since I do it that way, I don't boil it for that long as it all gets cooked up once it's whirled together in the processor. Any rare or raw patches are mixed up quickly with the rest of it while it's steaming hot. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• brookcove Posted : 6/16/2006 10:11:57 AM Rabbit is best fed raw!  LOL - it's the perfect natural food for our small canids.  If raising rabbits didn't involve also dispatching rabbits, I'd do it for my dogs.  But I can get them locally raised and already prepared for feeding for a few dollars each, good for an occaisional treat. Oh, anyway (sorry, I'm on pain med for a knee injury that's making me feel rathr . . .expansive . . .[] [8D]) it's best to de-bone before cooking if you are really squeamish about feeding the teeny-tiny bones, or pressure cook so the bones get squishy.  A pressure cooker is a great investment for the home cooker, and they are not that expensive, especially compared to expensive commercial foods.  That was my feeling when I purchased a grinder so I could feed raw meaty bones to my dear old Bubo dog who had severe teeth problems (one of the reasons I started raw feeding years ago). 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• brookcove Posted : 6/16/2006 10:14:04 AM Oh, if you boil duck, a great deal of fat will rise to the top.  You may or may not want to pour this off, depending on the condition of your dog - but never feed it alone - mix it back into the meat it came from. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Shelley75 Posted : 6/16/2006 2:55:05 PM Thanks for the good tips.  All the meat I buy is de-boned.  The butcher will de-bone the rabbit for me.  I'm very squeamish, and can't do that myself.  I have a hard time taking the bone out of the sardines!  LOL!  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jennie_c_d Posted : 6/17/2006 7:59:46 PM Rabbit is best fed raw! That's the only way mine get it. Feet, face, fur and all. Around here, if you want rabbit, you catch it yourself, and get dewormed, later. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sandra_slayton Posted : 6/17/2006 10:52:08 PM I always pour my "boiling juiice" over the dog's dry food.  Tonight I boiled calf liver and sweet potatoes for them.  I remember one "hint" years ago when I was taking nutirtion and cooking--save the water your potatoes are boiled in and add powdered milk, then put  it back in your potatoes and mash--mashed potatoes with more nutrients. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• olinda Posted : 6/18/2006 9:51:20 AM Wish I could help, I raw feed Romeo who is allergic to Venison, does not like duck but goes crazy for rabbit which he eats raw, bones and all.  If it is cooked he looks at it like I have gone mad. I cooked it once, for my father's sake and he would not touch it. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Jordan Philpott Posted : 6/21/2006 9:14:02 PM I feed all of those on quite a regular basis but always feed it raw, so I can't help you out there. [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login