It´s similar here. Hardly rained for a year and a half, just wets the surface. But here where I live is an amazing place, and the soil holds the water for months, and there are springs that run below the surface, so most farmers aren´t too affected, just the odd one or two.
But even without the weather problem, folks here eat just about anything that comes from any animal. What the butchers used to sell me dead cheap or give away, here is people food, and they want a good price for it. In England, I used to buy green tripe for my dogs, and minced up left-overs that wouldn´t go into the human chain, but here people pay a good price for 'left-overs'; they eat so much fat, skin, ears, feet, tripe (not green, of course), so I have to buy the cheaper meat. But it still works out about equal to buying a so-so quality of dried food, as that is a crazy price here, too. Probably one of the reasons people chuck their dogs out.
I do buy bones from the butcher, sometimes they give them to me. They´re cheap, at least, and the dogs love them. They also have a bit of meat on them, and the butcher will chuck in the skin, some fat, etc. Beef heart is cheapish, and liver not too bad, and of course chicken I can buy for them. I buy the chickens from the factory farms, poor things. People eat them because they´re cheap. We don´t eat them, we eat very little meat, but they´re fine for our dogs.
The vets here tell people they shouldn´t feed their dogs left-overs from the table, that they should buy the dried food. But a lot of the dried food has much less food value in it than the things that people chuck out. So, the street dogs come along and rip open the garbage bags to eat the stuff that the people throw out and they live on that...sometimes I think they fare better than the pets on the cheaper dried food!
Mine get eggs too, especially the dog that can´t have carbs.
