You can start a puppy on raw food immediately upon weaning off mother's milk. Many breeders are beginning to do this.
It's important is to introduce the protein sources ONE AT A TIME and SLOWLY OVER TIME. Reason: occasionally you'll have a pup that is allergic to a particular protein (more often than you might think) and unless you introduce them say a couple months apart, and the pup has some allergy symptoms show up, if you're feeding multiple proteins, you won't know which one is your problem meat.
I think the size relating to the dog's mouth size is the most important consiceration in feeding raw. For puppies, for your raw meaty bones, I'd tend to use chicken drumettes, chicken necks, small pork riblets. As puppies grow, or for larager preed puppies, the size & choices of bones will increase. I've even given my girls a large beef rib bone for recreational gnawing (those very hard bones are not actually consumed however). Puppies (and both of my ratties) will tend to stand and llick, rip, & gnaw away on their bones until all that can be consumed is!. It's great chewing exercise, leading to contentment. It may even stem chewing inappropriate things since their desire to chew is satisfied every day at mealtime!
Here are a few sites that discuss raw fed puppies:
www.b-naturals.com/newsletter/category/puppies/
www.naturalrearing.com/coda/l_weaning_puppies.html
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