Duck meat, meat for the dog?
Duck is a red poultry meat that can be fed to dogs.
Duck meat can thus be the source of animal protein for a home-prepared bowl or be part of the constituent ingredients of its industrial foods, whether it is pâtés or croquettes. On average, raw skinless duck meat contains around 20g of protein per 100g of meat.
Duck meat and allergies
Duck meat often has the reputation of being less allergenic than other poultry meats.In reality, there are not really any meats that are more allergenic than others: it all depends on the consumption habits of the animal. A dog can only be allergic to meats that he has been used to eating. So, if your dog has been used to being fed beef in the past, then chances are that duck meat is less allergenic for him, but that remains to be proven by a diet. eviction in his particular case.
Duck, a fatty meat?
As red meat, duck meat is traditionally considered fatty meat.
In fact, skinless duck leg meat and defatted, skinless duck breast are lean meats with between 4 and 5% fat. Fillet of duck meat is therefore certainly a little fattier than fillet of turkey or chicken (which are very lean meats) but is therefore no fattier than lean beef.
In what form should duck meat be given to a dog?
Raw or cooked?
It is possible to give raw or cooked duck meat to your dog.
However, if you go raw, be sure to make sure:
- that the duck meat is fresh and comes from classic marketing channels controlled by the He alth Authorities. If, on the other hand, it is wild game meat, prefer to cook it before giving it to your animal,
- to preserve and prepare duck meat in good hygienic conditions,
- that your household does not include particularly fragile people from an immune point of view (sick people, young children, elderly people, pregnant women). Dogs fed raw meat are likely to shed pathogens for those around them in their environment, even if the animal is apparently he althy.
As a precautionary measure, it is always best to cook the duck meat on the surface by pan-frying or poaching it in water for 1 minute before giving it to your dog. This practice makes it possible to sanitize the meat without denaturing its proteins and nutritional value for your animal.
With or without skin?
The duck, like all birds, accumulates fat under its skin so that the latter brings a lot of lipids and calories to the ration. According to the Ciqual nutritional tables, raw duck meat without its skin contains on average 5g of lipids per 100g, while this fat content rises to almost 23g per 100g for meat with the skin. The first thus displays 126Kcal per 100g and the second 284g per 100g.
Duck meat with the skin, much higher in calories, is therefore to be reserved for very athletic dogs whose energy needs are very high.
For sedentary dogs or dogs with normal to moderate physical expenditure, it is better to remove the skin from the duck meat before feeding it.
With or without bone?
Duck bones can be given to the dog but on the only condition that the bones are raw and fleshy, that is to say still completely surrounded by meat. Also make sure that the size of the meaty bone is suitable for the dog's jaw.
Cooked duck bones are far too crumbly and brittle to be given to a dog. They would then risk causing serious digestive obstructions or perforations.