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Hello, 

German Shepherd Dog 

Earlier this Year my entire litter of 7 puppies got infected with the Dreaded Parvovirus. With determined effort we managed to save all of them. 

However most of the puppies seem to have taken a serious hit in Growth. 

At around 7 months the females are 50cms or 19.5 inches!! 

Both parents are of Good Size and the Sire being at the upper limit of the Standard 66cms

My question is Will they remain stunted? 

Of course they are getting high quality Food. 

2 hours ago, sandgrubber said:

Having fed a mostly frames diet, I'll make a few comments:

1. Evidence is poor.  No one has fed pure frames and monitored the outcome in a scientifically meaningful way

2. If you feed a lot of frames the dogs turds get whitish and hard...they seem to excrete  excess calcium.

3. The biggest problem I had was dogs getting fat.  My source of frames supplied a lot of fat and skin with the skeleton. Also lots of meat. I did a lot of trimming.  No fun... disgusting waste.  

4. Too much of anything tends to become a problem.  I found other cheap raw stuff to add..eg horse carrots at $5 for 10 kg.  I also fed some dry kibble for 'balance'... whatever that means.

4. Some sources warn that salmonella can kill pups and oldies.  I'd pay attention to freshness, and perhaps hold back on raw where there's doubt about immune system health.

This is the exact information I'm looking for, thank you. 

At the moment I am feeding a complete balanced Raw Diet. 

But 

I wanted to know from someone who fed Only Frames about the results. 

My opinion is calcium overdose through natural sources is not possible,  as someone rightly mentioned above, excess calcium is expelled in the stools. 

My post is really because, in the initial days of the "Raw Feeding" movement there were a lot of pages on the internet which advocated feeding Raw Meaty Bones exclusively. They said that was enough. 

I'm sure this topic has been beaten to death a million times. 

But here Goes 

I would like know thoughts on Feeding Only Chicken Frames to dogs and Puppies. 

I would like to know the pros and cons of feeding ONLY Chicken Frames and nothing else.