Cheapest Food Processor that Minces Chicken Bones?

londonsurrey

There's one that costs about £400+, but I was wondering if anyone knows if there is one that is a whole lot cheaper? Thank you.

Dunroamin

I have to ask - why do you want to mince chicken bones?

pawsies

If it's for BARF raw feeding you don't really need to mince them (unless elderly or young pup) as dogs are capable of eating bones however scary it seems!

As long as you don't cook the bones that is.

See how your dog gets on without mincing first.

krlyr

Someone on a dog forum out bought a meat grinder to do her dog a raw diet - the dog was too eager to swallow bones whole to be able to have the bones as they were. The link she posted on her thread is out of date now but the make/model on the photo is the CuisinPro Turboforce - a 1800w power grinder. You can get a similar watt grinder for about £80 on Ebay, might be cheaper with a more thorough search too.

zaksmum

pawsies wrote: »

If it's for BARF raw feeding you don't really need to mince them (unless elderly or young pup) as dogs are capable of eating bones however scary it seems!

As long as you don't cook the bones that is.

See how your dog gets on without mincing first.

I'd like to give my dogs bones occasionally, but my butcher tells me I DO need to cook them first.

lostinrates

zaksmum wrote: »

I'd like to give my dogs bones occasionally, but my butcher tells me I DO need to cook them first.

This is not what most raw feeders do. Cooked bones splinter....see what a roast bone is like after its been roasted? Its brittle, when it breaks its sharp, sharp enough to puncture something in side.

Raw bones are sort of flexible, e.g. When you jump, your bones don't shatter.

Predation is what dogs (and meat eaters) were designed to do. You don't see wolves or wild cats setting up a bbq before knawing a bone!

My cats and dogs eat raw bones, can you tell?

Dunroamin

lostinrates wrote: »

This is not what most raw feeders do. Cooked bones splinter....see what a roast bone is like after its been roasted? Its brittle, when it breaks its sharp, sharp enough to puncture something in side.

Raw bones are sort of flexible, e.g. When you jump, your bones don't shatter.

Predation is what dogs (and meat eaters) were designed to do. You don't see wolves or wild cats setting up a bbq before knawing a bone!

My cats and dogs eat raw bones, can you tell?

I don't know why anyone would roast a bone, whether giving it to a dog or not.

My dogs have beef bones that have been boiled when I'm making stock and they're soft rather than sharp, in fact much less sharp than raw bones. The stock is a bonus and the dogs get the vegetables that I used to make it as well.

All very MSE.

londonsurrey

I have several cats, and roast a chicken for me and them occasionally.

It would be really handy to be able to just mince fiddly bits like the wing, rather than picking it off the bone slowly. I'd do chicken more often if it were less laborious.

peachyprice

Dunroamin wrote: »

I don't know why anyone would roast a bone, whether giving it to a dog or not.

Leg of lamb. It's a bit hard to de-bone it before roasting and you lose all the flavour the bone gives.

Ditto rib roast of beef.

Ditto chicken.

lostinrates

Dunroamin wrote: »

I don't know why anyone would roast a bone, whether giving it to a dog or not.

My dogs have beef bones that have been boiled when I'm making stock and they're soft rather than sharp, in fact much less sharp than raw bones. The stock is a bonus and the dogs get the vegetables that I used to make it as well.

All very MSE.

Boiled bones that have made stock make beautiful stock, but also remove the marrow etc that animals enjoy. Crucially, taurine is also 'destroyed' by cooking.

My cats are eight, vets are always in awe of their teeth.

London surrey, i give the cats the raw wings of a chicken before i roast it ( none of us like wings, so its raw for animaks or frozen till we have enough for stock or chicken soup in our household)


A d yes, obviously i was refering to roadted bones from big bone in joints: roast bones are often sokd as a treat at pet shops too, hence that as a comparison.

Dunroamin

peachyprice wrote: »

Leg of lamb. It's a bit hard to de-bone it before roasting and you lose all the flavour the bone gives.

Ditto rib roast of beef.

Ditto chicken.

Sorry, I hadn't thought about leftovers but bones bought specially for the dogs.