Chicken Meal vs Chicken By-Product Meal

[BigAl]

I grew up on a Dairy/Beef cattle farm in central Missouri. My question is if dogs, wolves and coyotes are carnivores and shouldn't eat grain of any kind why when we had a deceased cow and would drag it off to the "Bone Pile" why would the dogs and coyotes eat the stomach contents first!!!! The stomach contents of a cow is; siliage, corn, hay well you get the point all grain based!!! After the first night of being there the stomach and organs were ate by the dogs and coyotes. The rest of the carcass was eaten by crows and buzzards!!! Seems to me like people like to think they know more than animal instinct to survive. We had farm dogs that were loose and free to roam and were fed table scraps and fresh cow milk and they still elected to eat the cattle feed (Corn, oats, barley, etc) that the cows dropped or left behind!

[Kat]

Cows shouldnt even be eating corn, it is not species appropriate - they should be eating grass. Farmers feed corn because it is cheap and fattens them up quickly. If an animal is desperate enough they will eat anything, including the corn, oats, and barley.

[cast71]

it's probably impossible to feed all farm animals natural grass, with no synthetic fertilizers and still produce the same meat output to feed this out of control population. what we need is better resource management;0)

[SubMariner]

I grew up on a Dairy/Beef cattle farm in central Missouri. My question is if dogs, wolves and coyotes are carnivores and shouldn't eat grain of any kind why when we had a deceased cow and would drag it off to the "Bone Pile" why would the dogs and coyotes eat the stomach contents first!!!! The stomach contents of a cow is; siliage, corn, hay well you get the point all grain based!!! After the first night of being there the stomach and organs were ate by the dogs and coyotes. The rest of the carcass was eaten by crows and buzzards!!!

How about because that area of the cow is the easiest for a predator to eat? There's no obstruction to getting at the organs that way.

Seems to me like people like to think they know more than animal instinct to survive. We had farm dogs that were loose and free to roam and were fed table scraps and fresh cow milk and they still elected to eat the cattle feed (Corn, oats, barley, etc) that the cows dropped or left behind!

Just a thought... maybe they were hungry and had no other choice. Unless you were feeding 30+ people, I don't imagine they got much sustenance from table scraps. As for milk... how is that useful for adult dogs?

[Molly-Joy]

Please tell me thin, what is pork by-products and is it good for a dog with gastroenteritis?

[xellil]

Please tell me thin, what is pork by-products and is it good for a dog with gastroenteritis?

By-product is what is left over after all the good stuff is used for other things. Basically it's what they would throw in the garbage as slaughterhouse waste except they can make money off of it by putting it in dog food.