I have a 14 lb minpin (oversize, not fat) and oversize bichon at 22 lbs and a bichon at 17 lbs. They have eaten wings off and on for years and chew them up well.
Chicken wings, drumsticks, and necks are well suited to your dogs.
I am feeling really confused- just thinking that dogs only need rmbs and organ meat, it doesn't feel right to me I suppose.
You have been brought up with the 7 food groups being taught that we need our fruits and veggies for a healthy life. For humans, this is a true statement. Dogs, on the other hand, are carnivores and for that reason alone have no need for plant material. Did you ever see a wolf grazing in a wheat field or a rice paddy or a corn field? Of course not. Because of their jaw structure, dentation, and digestive juice composition, they have no way to properly digest plant material. You have been duped by the dog food industry to believe they need these things because dog food would be prohibitively expensive without grains, veggies, and fruits.
I am still awaiting allergy test results on both bichons so that is leadin me to stall also on what to feed them.
As far as I know there is not an allergy test in existance that will reliably indicate what foods your dogs are allergic to. You can bet your bottom dollar that if they have food allergies, it will be to plant material because their bodies are built from their snout to anus to eat and digest meat, bones, and organs.
As an example I have a 9 1/2 year old Great Dane who hasn't eaten any plant material or any food containing plant material in 7 years. I have a 4 1/2 year old Dane who has never eaten plant material in his entire life. Both dogs are healthy except for one bad hip on the older dog.
My cats are the same. Neither have had plant material since they came to live with us, 5 and 6 years ago.
Any small dog people want to give me a sample menu for a week or so?
Feed them nothing but the small chicken parts (wings, drumsticks, or necks) for a couple of weeks. Then add some turkey meat to the diet for a week or so. After that, add some pork to the diet for a couple of weeks, then go with fish, then beef. After that, add whatever kind of meat you can find.
There is no such thing as a sample menu in raw feeding. I reach into the freezer and pull out whatever hasn't been recently fed whether it be chicken, turkey, pork, beef, fish, venison, goat, lamb or whatever other meat I may have in the freezer. I will say that I usually feed chicken about 3 or 4 times a week as it's cheap. I try to feed pork once a week, beef once a week, and fish once a week. Other stuff is just mixed in from time to time. You need to add new meats to the diet slowly to allow their digestive systems to adjust to them.
