Pigs trotters

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I bought some last year with a big RAW food order. I am now not sure what to do with them-I felt the dogs were too young for them really. I have seen a recipe for boiling them, removing bones and cooking them with veg-allowing them to set and feeding it as meals. Any ideas? I have fed pork rib bones after freezing them for a few weeks but not sure what to do with these, got them because they were really cheap.
 
Could you just feed them raw? I appreciate you might not want them to have all that meat in one go (if there is plenty of meat on them) as it may give them the runs, so how about letting them chew for a while then taking them away, freezing them again and letting them have them again in a day or two?
 
Mine eat them raw, any bones left lying around and any from our plates go in bone broth, it's damn good stuff. My dogs coats are so shiny and soft every morning after eating the broth with their teas, they love it, cooked up half a pig's head to make it the other day but your pigs trotters will be just as good at making it.
Here:

http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/reasons-your-dog-love-bone-broth/
 
cinnamontoast said:
Morrisons do them, they're getting stupidly expensive. My boys have them whole and raw, it's a fab tea.
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I blame the celebrity chefs - all the once cheap off cuts have rocketed in price now they are "trendy" Mine loves a trotter, I just feed them raw but I may make some bone broth now!
 
I have some in the crockpot now-OH not amused when he eagerly checked the contents earlier lol. I am going to do some bone broth and also some brawn for them (i.e. split it)
 
I draw the line at that ;) honestly, I am not squeamish and regualrly deal with all sorts of samples at work but the pigs trotters in the crockpot was the ickiest thing I've done outside of science lol (and I butcher my own chooks and ducks for the table). The next lot they can have raw in the garden :D
 
MotherOfChickens said:
I draw the line at that ;) honestly, I am not squeamish and regualrly deal with all sorts of samples at work but the pigs trotters in the crockpot was the ickiest thing I've done outside of science lol (and I butcher my own chooks and ducks for the table). The next lot they can have raw in the garden :D
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Gross! I remember my Gran, many years ago boiling up a sheep's head she had been given​, for the dogs, and it looked so disgusting she threw it away!
 
No cow tongue is worse. And the farts.....




....this thread has also reminded me that there is probably still a cow's heart in the old freezer I left at my family home almost two years ago. Oops.
 
I laughed my face off at my OH who was determined to try the pickled trotters in America in far flung gas stations. Predictably, it was disgusting, he said. No way was I touching it!
 
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