Who's feeding tripe?

[Hayduke]

My dog gets a bit of liver as a thank you on a successful stalk. But far prefers and makes a beeline for the tripe in the gut pile.

This reminded me that my Grandfather who used to breed dogs would weekly boil up tripe for dog food on a gas ring outside (and stink the place out). I understand that usually the only time dogs and their ancestral predecessors in more natural situations would eat green or herbivore food is the contents of the stomach of prey or carrion, and this is the justification that pet dog food producers add potato, rice, grain, carrot etc and bulk out their products.

There is little smell to fresh culled deer stomach, it looks great, so im thinking I might bag up and freeze some for raw dog food. My dog is regularly wormed and gets medicine for gut parasites. Would love it, and it is nutritious.

Is there any harm feeding the dog raw tripe in moderation?

Online tripe gets great reviews:
"Simply put, green tripe is a superfood for dogs. Tripe is the nutrient-rich stomach lining of an animal, and the 'green' in front simply means it isn't bleached or processed in any way. So yes, it looks green to the eye, but that's actually a good thing so don't freak out!"

 

[StephenToast]

My dogs do really well on it.

The only harm it does is if you have to share an enclosed space with them afterwards

 

[Waz77]

I feed it, along with minced chicken carcass and beef, can't beat it, just worm regularly

 

[Malxwal]

Dogs love it, but they can smell a bit "nutrient rich" after .

 

[the_greenman]

Raw feeding sites recommend it. Green not the bleached or cooked variety. Packed with essential nutrients. Treat as muscle meat if feeding raw ratios.

 

[Hayduke]

Raw feeding sites recommend it. Green not the bleached or cooked variety. Packed with essential nutrients. Treat as muscle meat if feeding raw ratios.

Hi Greenman,
What is ratios? Where can I find more info?
Currently mine will get bone, meat, and sinew for a few days. Then a meat content high, grain free and low carb kibble

 

[the_greenman]

Ratio for raw fed dogs is 80% muscle meat - so flesh, connective tissues, fat, muscle organs (tongue and heart although heart is a very rich muscle meat so consider feeding of it similar to liver - see below)
10% offal - of this 5% should be liver and the other 5% other organs such as kidney, spleen, brain, pancreas, testicles.
Beware if feeding heart, liver and kidneys altogether in one go as they can be high is phosphorous and overload dogs kidneys.
Remaining 10% is bone. Non weight bearing bones such as spine, ribs etc.

 

[the_greenman]

Lots of raw groups on Facebook. Some helpful, others can be a bit overbearing if you dare mention nonconformity to their ways!

 

[Dunwaters]

There is little smell to fresh culled deer stomach, it looks great, so im thinking I might bag up and freeze some for raw dog food. My dog is regularly wormed and gets medicine for gut parasites. Would love it, and it is nutritious.

Is there any harm feeding the dog raw tripe in moderation?

Theres no harm in it, except for the dog farts.
Truly stomach churning especially if you’re on the motor way and can’t abandon ship.

 

[spannulman]

But you can pick up after them with bare hands. To be clear, ( after the pleading of my gf to clarify) I don’t, but the dog eggs are so hard and dry and almost odourless.

And like the white dog poo you saw growing up which are rarely seen these days. Mine used to wolf it down. I only stopped because we lack a garage to have a freezer outside. And the memsahib was not keen on having it indoors as she grew up with it. You’d think she would have grown used to the smell...

 

[Stevie/P]

When my dad was game keeper on local estate all he ever fed his spinger was green tripe in fact that's all it could keep down it lived till thirteen

 

[StephenToast]

Theres no harm in it, except for the dog farts.
Truly stomach churning especially if you’re on the motor way and can’t abandon ship.

I actually hitch the muck spreader up to the tractor to improve the smell.

 

[willie_gunn]

When I was much younger I used to whip in to a pack of beagles.

They were fed on bible tripe, along with occasional fallen stock.

We used to have to travel in the pick-up bed of a Subaru Brat with the beagles, enclosed by a Truckman top.

It was......fragrant.

 

[Hayduke]

But why no weight bearing bones? All ours when I grew up got big bones. Mine make short order of deer femur and legs which they gnaw into for the gold mine of fresh marrow in the middle which for them is like cocaine to Escobar. Teeth are in great condition, unlike the plaque and crap on a lot of the pet dogs teeth that I know.

 

[the_greenman]

But why no weight bearing bones? All ours when I grew up got big bones. Mine make short order of deer femur and legs which they gnaw into for the gold mine of fresh marrow in the middle which for them is like cocaine to Escobar. Teeth are in great condition, unlike the plaque and crap on a lot of the pet dogs teeth that I know.

Weight bearing bones apparently have a tendency to splinter into long shards. I think it's recommended because it removes any chance of an accident from an ingested shard by some of the gulper type breeds of dogs. You're right, dogs years ago ate anything.

 

[sportingspaniels]

Green tripe is superb food for dogs and I’ve never seen a dog that didn’t wolf it down . Wild dogs/wolfs/big cats etc rat very little of the stomach contents because they will shake them out whilst eating/fighting over them. Look at pictures from above a kill site to see the green contents scattered around.

 

[Bluey]

Weight bearing bones apparently have a tendency to splinter into long shards. I think it's recommended because it removes any chance of an accident from an ingested shard by some of the gulper type breeds of dogs. You're right, dogs years ago ate anything.

All my Five spaniel love it hand full of shapes and some dried food and they wolf it down

 

[bogtrotter]

Fed my dogs tripe when they were kenneld now that they are kept in the house I don't.use to pick it up
from an abattoir don't think they can sell it to you these days.

 

[Craigsaun]

There's a chap not far from me who collects tripe from the slater house,he then washes it and minces it packs it up like sausages and sells it . He even delivers the dogs do really well on it

 

[mereside]

I feed raw dogs love tripe, I feed 80-10-10 and they look good for it coats shine, when I gralloch a deer I just turn out the stomach give a quick rinse and dice up, the only thing my dogs are not bothered about is lung, everything else they love, another thing they love is the windpipe split along the length they like it as a chew. If your going to start on raw then build up with it only feed one protein for the first week then slowly introduce others so start on chicken or turkey and that alone then add something else a week later, you ideally want three protein meats to give a balance, raw egg is also good and the dogs love them shells and all, as said be careful with liver as if you overdo it the ***** will be severe, I don’t bother with veg some do but it’s not something I have done, regards Wayne