Thread: Dog Food

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

my two cents worth no 1 wild shot possum - really good but cut claws off - no 2 hares and the rest not much food value maybe wallabys dont know -mutton great - goat okay but a bit lean --venison they like it but not a good dog tucker need biscuits and something fatty with it - wild pork great but most dogs wont eat it raw so boil it - surprisingly eels my dogs in the scrub scoffed them down and fat content - horse used to do them on the station for dog tucker in winter only otherwise to salty in summer - cull cattle beast yes very good dog tucker - raw meat and some biscuits mixed in probably good mix -

Did you feed the eels raw or cooked. I’ve also heard that trout are good as they have a high fat/oil content esp if from the Rotorua lakes

I fed them raw but my dogs were hungry weeks on venison and the odd bit of cooked pork they would eat ya boots

Originally Posted by omark

Did you feed the eels raw or cooked. I’ve also heard that trout are good as they have a high fat/oil content esp if from the Rotorua lakes

My son uses the slab trout from Rotorua for snapper bait. Says its wicked. The trout he gets from Tarawera and Otakaina are*smoked. You are right. They are so nice to eat smoked. Think it is the koura they have as a ingredient in their diet.

Originally Posted by TeRei

My son uses the slab trout from Rotorua for snapper bait. Says its wicked. The trout he gets from Tarawera and Otakaina are*smoked. You are right. They are so nice to eat smoked. Think it is the koura they have as a ingredient in their diet.

tell him to smoke all of the trout and to use koi carp as bait. seems nuts to pay for a license to catch trout as bait when koi is free

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

tell him to smoke all of the trout and to use koi carp as bait. seems nuts to pay for a license to catch trout as bait when koi is free

There are too many trout in Taupo. DOC encourages the taking of trout for that reason. In the streams from taupo to turangi you hear stories of fishermen saying exactly that... caught 30 fish ,all slabs.

as any one on here actually had success with koi carp as bait we tried it of Cape Karikari Kaitaia both berley and bait - this in an area that with a skipjack bait and berley or pilchards would have produced snapper but the koi-- bloody useless