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I always threw my left overs after skinning a rabbit to my big dogs,
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There is a substantial difference between a dog just eating bits fur alone, which is far different from a dog eating fur together with mouthfuls of meat/and fur. There's a very good chance that it wasn't the fur making your dogs up-chuck, it was the fat attached to the back of the skin.
There are essential elements in all parts of the prey, so it shouldn't be discouraged really.
Your dogs throwing up could have been from ingesting too much fur/fat at one time. Given natural prey, they would not be eating it in the same manner, but would be eating it together with mouthfuls of meat.
The whole point of prey model feeding is to offer the entire prey animal to the dog so that they can benefit from all parts of the prey. In the wild, they would not have someone skinning and gutting their prey for them - do you not agree?.
Merlin
