i know your not ment to feed weight bearing bones

im guessing that you cant give a dog the drumstick bone then ?? just the meat off it

A drumstick is not a big weight bearing bone so is fine to be eaten. It's more thigh bones etc from anything bigger than a lamb I think.

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ahhh right its just it looks massive compared to a chicken drumstick lol turkey drumsticks are huge!!!

thought it would be best to check. took me ages to slice meat off it yesterday lol

I can only tell you that I feed mine turkey drumsticks regularly, they weigh circa 800g each and it takes the dogs less than 5 minutes to demolish them.

They also get shock, pigs trotters, legs of lamb, beef bones etc.

Does not appear to have harmed them so far (11 years old and 6)

Always best to check if in doubt Benny gets random beef and pork bones although parts of it he can't actually crunch but gives it a good go and has a good gnaw.

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Rupert used to get turkey drumsticks regularly when I was in the UK, they were about £1 from Asda and he loved them. It's large animal weight bearing bones people say not to give as dogs can break teeth on them.

I give weight bearing bones though, with a dog who demolishes even the supposedly indestructible toys in a matter of minutes they're the only things I've found that are reasonably safe for him to really chew on.

Mine go nom ,nom and gone in minutes lol

I feed turkey drumsticks as often as i can get them! They are eaten in about 5 minutes though and neither have any problems with the bones.

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Harvey - staffy
Chance - american bulldog (rescue)

19 snakes, 5 geckos, phibs, T's, inverts, fluffies and hedgehog.

Even my tiny dogs can manage turkey drumstick i cut off most of the meat into dinner portions and keep the bones with a fair bit of meat on and they get one each as a special dinner treat they strip all the meat off and usually manage to gnaw the big knobbly end right down , takes them about 2-3 hours to get that far though!
Charlie can even crunch the whole thing up and get all the marrow stuff out, she's got very strong teeth and jaws despite being about 3kg

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thanks give him half of it this afternoon. easy peasy lol

i had hold of it as i usually do , thought id give it him to do it on his own, but as soon as i let go he growled. so i got hold of it again and let him eat it with me holding it .


is there a way to stop this or are we just to be aware we will have to hold high value bones etc..