Can Dogs Eat Raw Chicken Liver?

The Short Answer is:

The liver of a chicken should be given as a treat. It is so rich that a dog should only consume a few tablespoons a week.

The purpose of this article is to explain the “Can Dogs Eat Raw Chicken Liver?“.

Raw chicken liver is safe for your dog to eat but there are some things to keep in mind.

The liver of a chicken is one of the most nutritious meats especially when it comes to vitamins and minerals.

Certain vitamins (such as B12 and A) are present in such high concentrations that you need to feed your dog very sparingly.

You should give your dog food sparingly depending on the type of diet it eats.

You should also consider the possibility that raw chicken liver could contain harmful bacteria that could harm you and your dog.

Later on we’ll talk about that.

Complete diets vs raw diets

It depends on what kind of food your dog eats how often you should feed them raw chicken livers. 

Whether your dog is eating canned food or dry kibble a complete diet will provide your dog with the nutrients he needs.

The liver of a chicken should be given as a treat.

It is so rich that a dog should only consume a few tablespoons a week.

Raw chicken liver should comprise about 5% of your dogs diet if he is on a raw diet.

Do not try to calculate it on a daily basis but over a week or even two weeks.

As an example let me give you the following.

The raw meat that Sylvie eats every day is 500 grams.

She consumes 3.5kg of food over the course of a week.

Then 5% of 175 g equals 175 g.

Sylvie therefore requires 175 grams of chicken liver (or liver from another animal) per week. 

Here is a demonstration of raw chicken livers potency.

The way I’m going to do this is by looking at the nutrients in it. 

Raw chicken liver nutrients

Raw chicken liver contains nearly 5% fat 17% protein and a high level of cholesterol and sodium as you can see by looking at the nutrition data along with this text.

When we consider the vitamins and minerals that chicken livers contain however they provide real “oomph.”. 

The following is a breakdown of the vitamins.

As shown in the chart above chicken liver contains six of the most important vitamins.

The nutrients are B12 A B2 B5 B6 and Niacin.

Each vitamins recommended daily dose is shown in the recommended value column.

The data I gained from this report has been used in this report.

These amounts are based on a serving of 100 grams of chicken liver. 

The biggest overdose is provided by vitamin A which provides over twenty-two times the daily requirements. 

All the other amounts look insignificant in comparison!

Over five times the amount of vitamin B12 B6 and B5 

The amount of vitamin B3 (Niacin) is seven times more than what is recommended every day whereas vitamin B2 is only three times as much.   

We have now covered vitamins and minerals; now lets talk about minerals

Looking straight at the daily value column we can see that your dog does not get quite as much of an overdose of minerals as it does of vitamins with raw chicken liver.

It gets ten times the transmitted quantum of Bobby (1095) and twice the quantum of iron (224)

Zinc comes in with a further clearheaded and moderate 33 of a diurnal value but of the other main minerals that are boasted in funk liver a canine need’s are inadequately met.

Phosphorus magnesium and potassium deliver hardly anything for your canine.

And currently let’s check out what disparateness cuisine makes to funk liver.  

Raw chicken liver vs cooked chicken liver

Bouncing to your right you’ll experience some nutrition data for funk liver that has been coddled.

Its 6.5 fat and its 24 protein.

The raw liver was 5 fat and 17 protein.

Theres also quite a concrete rise in the quantum of cholesterol that the misrepresented liver contains in comparison (563 mg as resisted to 345 mg.)

What about vitamins? Well sidesplitting that you should say that because I have got a map for that!

Cuisine funk liver seems to accelerate the attention or quantities of the main vitamins.

Vitamin A increases by around 20 and vitamin B2 sees an increase of around 10.

Vitamin B5 accretions by about 5 B6 seems to drop by about 10 and vitamin B3 sees an increase of about 20 by being coddled.

Since all of the vitamins from a raw piece of funk were formerly way over the specified diurnal quantum and cooking it seems to increase the attention of these vitamins it would feel to suggest that feeding it to your canine raw is the way to go.

Does raw chicken liver contain any bacteria?

It seems that the coming logical question to ask is whether raw funk liver contains any bacteria.

Holding seen that nutrition-wise raw is the favored option it would be appreciable to check out any food poisoning pitfalls.

Most of us know about the troubles of raw funk (and salmonella) but does it apply to raw funk liver?

Yes it does although not from salmonella however.

Rather the malefactor is Campylobacter which can be planted throughout the liver and not just on the face.

Its delicate to find exact figures on how familiar Campylobacter is in funk liver.

Its allowed to be in anywhere between 10-90 of all funk livers.

The exclusively safe way to kill Campylobacter is to cook it veritably completely until it reaches an interior temperature of 165 °F or 74 °C.

And yes tykes can get a Campylobacter infection and its veritably nasty and it might involve a fever and lots of diarrhea.

So whats my recommendation now?

I suppose that its safest for you to cook any funk liver and to just be aware that the vitamins come more potent and to feed it to your canine less!

Alternatives to chicken livers

Having Plant out just how unhealthy raw funk livers can be I’ll now look at livers from other creatures.

A volition but extensively available liver in the US is beef but in the UK druthers to funk livers feel to be either pork or angel.

Raw beef liver

Well this is intriguing.

When I looked into the troubles of raw funk liver the results runner on Google was full of advice on the troubles of eating raw funk liver.

But when I do the same hunt for raw beef liver Google just spits out runners offering generic advice about the need to cook the organs of any beast.

So its alright to cook any beast liver but the real trouble of food poisoning is posed by funk liver.

But to be safe let’s check the nutrients.

Whilst 100g of raw beef liver has many further calories than funk liver it has a lower fat content (3.6 vs4.8 g) and a slightly advanced quantum of protein (20 vs 17g.)

Oh and the cholesterol in the raw beef liver is astronomically less (275 vs 345 mg.)  

But what about vitamins and minerals?

Hence when we come across the nutrition anatomy for raw beef liver we can see that the biggest vitamins in funk liver are the same as in the raw beef liver.

But that they’re immediate in indeed lesser quantities.

What does this denote in terms of the diurnal quantities for puppies?

Raw beef liver provides them in amounts that are off the scale …

There is three times the quantum of B12 in raw beef liver than raw funk liver and over one and a half occasions the quantum of vitamin A in raw beef.

Niacin sees an analogous increment.

Theres an increase of about a third for Riboflavin.

There are correspondingly further vitamins B5 and B6 in raw beef liver.

Let’s expression at the minerals in raw beef liver.

As far as minerals go its a veritably analogous short story to vitamins.

Iron is the unsurpassed mineral which has lower in raw beef liver than funk liver-magnesium is nearly identical.

Beef liver contains further of all the other minerals that we have looked at than funk liver.

What that means for our tykes is that beef liver has a veritably high quantum of bobby-thats far advanced than the diurnal quantum.

The quantum of iron in beef liver is barely more advanced than the diurnal quantum and all the other minerals are way below the diurnal quantities.

But appearing at all of this data what does it mean for our doggies?

Overall it means that feeding your canine raw beef liver might be safer than feeding them raw funk liver when it comes to food poisoning issues.

In tenures of the vitamin and mineral assistance that they will give to your canine both types of liver hold colossal quantities of vitamins and some minerals.

Beef further than funk.

Amanda (Author)

With over a decade of experience, Amanda is a distinguished dog trainer. Her expertise in canine behavior has transformed countless lives, fostering harmonious human-canine connections. Through compassionate and personalized approaches, she empowers owners to understand and connect with their furry companions, creating a legacy of joyful tails and transformed lives.

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