Five and a half week old boxer puppies eat chicken quarters
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Natural rearing weaning at Gentry Boxers nursery. We wean our babies onto raw goat milk, then onto emulsified meat/organ/bone/tripe blend, then onto chunky blend. If we can source entire prey, we feed that since we are use Prey Model Diet feeding. (That means that dogs eat what they do in the wild - the entire prey animal. And yes, you can blend up a squirrel if you want to. Mama dogs eat whole prey and then regurgitate it, so we are making sure it works as close to that as possible for best nutrition.)
Once our babies can eat chunky (hamburger-like) meat blend, we begin offering whole animal parts so that they can get a feel for grasping with teeth, holding with feet, and shearing meat off with those wonderful sharp carnassial molars. This gives them the early skills that they will need to chow down whole prey later on.
Could they choke? In the wild, carnivores aren't eating things like chicken necks that are dissected out, so there's very little issue with choking hazard. In a nursery, we are mindful with animal parts that are dissected out and could potentially fit perfectly in a little esophagus like a chicken neck. We are feeding whole quarters here.