Hijack73
Master of the Pit
My grandfather would pressure cook chicken (bones and all) and feed it to his Saint Bernards. He would also toss them things like possums and raccoons (and once, a whole deer carcass that someone had hit up close to his house)
I dunno about the science behind it (and this was 30odd years ago) but he swore whole cooked chicken including bones was good for them, so about once a month he'd make them a batch)
Those Saints would leave no trace of smaller critters, the only deer bones they ended up not consuming were the skull and femurs and maybe the hips. Ribs, spine, hide, everything else they eventually chewed up and swallowed. (Someone hit a deer or whatever out in front of his house, he fed it to them, Grandpa was practical)
He always joked (or was he joking...) that he could get rid of all of the bodies that way. Wait till they were picked clean and ax the bigger bits and even those would be gone the next day.
When I first watched that show Tiger King I was like "yep, Carol Baskins definitely fed hubs 1 to the tigers" cause if a Saint can do it, a tiger could do it twice as fast.
I dunno about the science behind it (and this was 30odd years ago) but he swore whole cooked chicken including bones was good for them, so about once a month he'd make them a batch)
Those Saints would leave no trace of smaller critters, the only deer bones they ended up not consuming were the skull and femurs and maybe the hips. Ribs, spine, hide, everything else they eventually chewed up and swallowed. (Someone hit a deer or whatever out in front of his house, he fed it to them, Grandpa was practical)
He always joked (or was he joking...) that he could get rid of all of the bodies that way. Wait till they were picked clean and ax the bigger bits and even those would be gone the next day.
When I first watched that show Tiger King I was like "yep, Carol Baskins definitely fed hubs 1 to the tigers" cause if a Saint can do it, a tiger could do it twice as fast.