Quote Originally Posted by bckrazy
Sue, I've never ordered from Rodentpro, but I've heard they are good! =/ I could never skin a rabbit though, or a guinea pig. It's hard enough to just feed it to them! I guess if your dogs can figure out to get past the pelt, it'd be ok.
They are good!
My ferrets (and sometimes dogs & cats) usually only eat mice/small rats and chicks. The eat fur/feathers & all. Of course the fur/feathers are pretty minimal at this stage.

The dogs (when I do order food for them through rodent pro) have so far gotten rabbit, Nanook & Raustyk both skin them themselves, Kaige has yet to try rabbit with the fur on it.
They have also gotten an assortment of birds too, with the birds they all, even Kaige eats just about everything. They do leave some feathers behind but not much. And if it is a larger bird with an excessive amount of feathers on it I will sometimes pull out some of the large primary feathers for them.


Here's just a few quotes out of many, stating that fur/feathers are a natural diet:
In the wild, carnivores eat their prey whole and for the most part they eat it fur, feathers, feet and all. No-one removes the innards, small bones or feathers from their catch so what nature has provided for them is what we would refer to as whole prey food. They also eat lots of green grass. It's natures way.
Many of us have observed the eating habits of our North American coyote. The first parts of a carcass that the coyote eats are the liver, kidneys and the stomach and intestines including their contents. Next the flesh or "steak" and last the bones, hair, hide and/or feathers. Everything is eaten.
When feeding whole animals, you can feed the ones that are completely feathered and furred, or you could feed skinned ones. It depends on your dog's preference and on its level of expertise (i.e. I wouldn't suggest feeding a dog brand new to raw feeding a whole feathered chicken). When you do feed feathered prey, you might need to pull out the large primary feathers at first so that all is left is the soft feathers that aren't going to poke your dog's mouth, etc. If you are feeding a whole animal, you may need to make a little incision to expose the 'goodies' inside the first time you feed it, as dogs don't always recognize it as food. Once your dog realizes it is food, you typically don't need to do that anymore.