Corn on the cob and watermelon

[workindog]

Gracie the Sheltie also gets a cob to chew on, I'm sure she loves it more for the butter than anything else, lol.

Oh please be very careful, they call corn cobs dog killers. My german shepherd actually ate one. It was thrown across the yard as a joke by one of the kids. My gsd chased it and by the time i realized he was actually going to eat it, i ran to him, he chomped it in a few pieces and swallowed one of the pieces. I didnt think he would have ate it, he ate like a king, he was on a raw diet for 3 years. So i assumed he had digested it because i was watching his poop. A WEEK later, he started puking out of the blue..out came TWO pieces. After that, i googled it and thats when i realized just how lucky he was!!! So please, all dog owners... be very careful with corn on the cob!!!!!

 

[workindog]

My chickens used to love watermelon rinds. I would save them, freeze them, then give them a couple pieces on a hot day. They would eat down to about a half inch thick. Then I could compost the rest.
The other thing, slightly gross, is they loved Japanese Beetles. I would use JB traps, freeze them by the gallon bag, and have a handful of beetles to give them on winter days when no other bugs could be scavenged in the yard.

Thats what I was wondering.. if i can freeze the rinds for them because theres no way they can eat it all before it goes bad!!! Yay ty!!!!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Thanks, @workindog I'll keep that in mind!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Oh please be very careful, they call corn cobs dog killers. My german shepherd actually ate one. It was thrown across the yard as a joke by one of the kids. My gsd chased it and by the time i realized he was actually going to eat it, i ran to him, he chomped it in a few pieces and swallowed one of the pieces. I didnt think he would have ate it, he ate like a king, he was on a raw diet for 3 years. So i assumed he had digested it because i was watching his poop. A WEEK later, he started puking out of the blue..out came TWO pieces. After that, i googled it and thats when i realized just how lucky he was!!! So please, all dog owners... be very careful with corn on the cob!!!!!

An excellent word of caution.

We nearly lost a dog to intestinal blockage......he had swallowed a small rock he was apparently playing with.

A $2000 surgery and 2-3 weeks of being near death was not easy to deal with.

He was 1 then and is 10 now.

 

[Trux]

I give watermelon rinds to my flock all the time and they peck it down to the skin, they love the stuff. Corn you can give either way

 

[workindog]

An excellent word of caution.

We nearly lost a dog to intestinal blockage......he had swallowed a small rock he was apparently playing with.

A $2000 surgery and 2-3 weeks of being near death was not easy to deal with.

He was 1 then and is 10 now.

Blockages are very scary and costly. So glad it was a good ending!!!! 10 is a great age, there's nothing lile the love from a dog!!!!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Blockages are very scary and costly. So glad it was a good ending!!!! 10 is a great age, there's nothing lile the love from a dog!!!!

We are very glad he made it. Every time I pick up the kennel any rocks they have dug up get picked up too.
He has been a great dog.

 

[zuccszoo]

We let the chickens clean up the watermelon rinds and cooked cobs, whatever's left disappears into the dirt and I guess the worms take care of it. We throw the husks with the silks over the fence to the neighbor's cows, they always seem happy to have them. Gracie the Sheltie also gets a cob to chew on, I'm sure she loves it more for the butter than anything else, lol.

Edit. Sigh, I always miss at least one typo.

Just a note about feeding corn cobs to dogs. My friends dog had to have surgery twice for "stuck" pieces of corn cob in his intestines. Please be careful with little Gracie.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Just a note about feeding corn cobs to dogs. My friends dog had to have surgery twice for "stuck" pieces of corn cob in his intestines. Please be careful with little Gracie.

Thanks, good to know. I think she just sucks/ licks the butter off. I find them later in the yard and pitch them to the chickens, or over the fence to the cows.