Bone dust for my puppies: appropriate or not?

If you are feeding a high quality dog food, it’s not necessary. In some (especially giant) breeds, excess calcium and/or protein supplementation can cause problems, such as osteochodrosis.

Puppies need to at the same food as adult dogs. That’s what they are designed to do. The best way to get the benefits of bone in the diet is to feed the BARF diet. Randomly adding bone to some prepared dog food does not seem like a good idea to me.

@syz I am feeding them what I specifically cook for them.
I don’t buy them canned food or anything else artificially prepared that you find in the supermarket.
They’re middle-sized mix breeds.. I suppose there’s some terrier in them…

@Marina you see I wouldn’t feed them bone randomly.
I don’t live in the states, the Barf thing isn’t available for me here where I live.
Unfortunately I don’t have that ease and simple possibility to just order a shipping of barf-food. by the way, I’ve looked at the site, since it’s been suggested to me already 3–4 times in other discussions… how much does it cost?
You know, it didn’t really hit me…this barf method. I understand that it’s a very healthy approach to a return to canine natural diet… but it’s still all packed up and served with a logo on the bag…
how natural is it really?
can you truly know?
In my opinion there’s nothing more natural than what a dog, in its days of old, would’ve eaten in the wild.
cooked, of course… because of their changed metabolism and mutated nature throughout time.
I thank you gals for your advice, though..
and it’s very nice to see you so often in ‘my’ discussions.
You’re always of help somehow (whether I actually agree or not..)
X )

@Anatelostaxus Sounds like your dogs are very lucky. Cooking changes bone making it splintery. I feed my dogs raw food. They do wonderfully on it.

Here is a site you may find helpful for balanced, cooked dog food.

I’ve never heard of doing this. I guess it could add calcium to the food, but overall it’s probably not necessary. Puppy food these days has gotten very good and nutritious, so that’s probably fine. However, if you want to do it the old fashion way, and if your butcher thinks it’s okay, it probably isn’t too harmful.