Who's feeding tripe?

[Freeforester]

Always fed my dogs green tripe, slice open when in the field to empty, bit of a shake out, no need to be too fastidious, goes in the arm length glove with the tongue and diaphragm skirt for them to have cold a couple days or more later, hung up on a ’krog’ (Danish outdoor game hooks) and I simply cut through the glove to get at it when ready. The dogs do well on it, according to the local vet they’re some of the fittest dogs they see, which is seldom, but also may be a fairly low bar!

They get the Achilles and ankle when sawn off for shanks for customers, easy access to marrow plus a nice chewy sinew on hand (paw).

I find too that if you throw in more or less cleaned spines and neck bones to the hens, they’ll strip any remaining meat off, and you’ll be rewarded with the most lovely richly yolked eggs.

as someone else mentioned, the dogs are a bit ’firm‘ when they do their business, but there’s less of it than the bagged feed variety.

 

[countrryboy]

I looked into moving on to tripe a few years ago.

A few old school trainers who run decent packs and pick up on a nieghbouring estate have fed almost exclusively tripe for decades have changed off it a few years ago.
Seemingly local slaughter house they got it off found a new market for cow/beef tripe, so prices went up.
They went on to sheep tripe for free but dogs just never done very well on it, they ended up gong back on to dried food instead.
I never knew they're was a difference but that's wot they found

 

[Hayduke]

I’m just gutted (haha see what I did there ) I didn’t switch on to this sooner, could have saved a fortune.

 

[landkeeper]

I fed my dogs for years on lamb tripe and heads halved with a saw , never any problems and hard muscled and fit as fleas , bit hard on the olfactory system in the vehicle , but they probably said the same about me after 6 pints of guiness

 

[StephenToast]

I fed my dogs for years on lamb tripe and heads halved with a saw , never any problems and hard muscled and fit as fleas , bit hard on the olfactory system in the vehicle , but they probably said the same about me after 6 pints of guiness

I give mine roe heads and he loves them.

 

[Magnificent 7]

Fed all my dogs on a mixed flesh diet forever tripe sheep beef and deer I also feed flesh fallen stock if worked hard like lurcher or gun dogs I fed horse meat too but if there not hard worked they become fizzy and hard work every deer I shoot once boned out i feed the trim and bones ect now what ever you do don't stand down wind then as they stink when i had a small pack of hounds injsento transport them about in a van and it constantly had to have the window open as it would make your eyes bleed lol

 

[Scapegoat]

Mine eats raw minced chicken, or beef mixed with minced tripe. She also gets chicken wings or necks. When they have them I’ll get her lamb flat ribs, absolutely adores them.

We add in cooked green veg, carrots, and the occasional bit of mackerel or sardines.

Raw fed dogs crap less, it’s easier to pick up if you have to, and I can’t remember the last time she farted. Also the harder stools mean they evacuate the anal glands at every sitting, so that’s one less job.........

 

[User00025]

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.

We were more civilized Sir, I used to take my pack in a trailer after letting them empty in a field adjacent to the kennels first.

 

[User00025]

Fed both sheep tripes and cattle tripes to my dogs with basic biscuit for years. Also every deer tripe I shot, just washed in a stream and fed raw. Prior to freezers used to keep tripes in a barrel full of water in the summer.

 

[sh1kar]

The Woke movement and BLM

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[willie_gunn]

We were more civilized Sir, I used to take my pack in a trailer after letting them empty in a field adjacent to the kennels first.

We eventually moved on to a horse trailer......luxury!

I loved my time whipping in to beagles. Wonderful hounds.

 

[User00025]

We eventually moved on to a horse trailer......luxury!

I loved my time whipping in to beagles. Wonderful hounds.

Yes absolutely, when you have a good pack hunting or casting themselves you could cover them with a blanket. Had the pleasure of hunting a pack for a couple of months 30 years ago when my pal the Master damaged a leg. In my late teens I whipped in to that same pack before they were registered. I remember the then huntsman drawing a wood for a fox because the M6 was going through that area on the outskirts of B'ham and he wanted to catch it. He quite often did a bit of cubbing in areas where the foxhounds never went. One of which was the farm on the test track of the Rover company Solihull. Terrific memories.

 

[willie_gunn]

Yes absolutely, when you have a good pack hunting or casting themselves you could cover them with a blanket. Had the pleasure of hunting a pack for a couple of months 30 years ago when my pal the Master damaged a leg. In my late teens I whipped in to that same pack before they were registered. I remember the then huntsman drawing a wood for a fox because the M6 was going through that area on the outskirts of B'ham and he wanted to catch it. He quite often did a bit of cubbing in areas where the foxhounds never went. One of which was the farm on the test track of the Rover company Solihull. Terrific memories.

Wonderful!

In my case the pack hunted the Kent marshes and orchards. I remember days on Sheppey where, as you say, you could cover the pack with a blanket. They would lose the line, cast themselves and then, with a sound unique to beagles, pick up the line and hunt on.

If you wanted to watch and learn about hound-work, you followed beagles!

 

[Grannysmith]

A!ways fed my labs tripe and they did well on it

 

[penninelad]

I fed a pack of 40 foxhounds on raw beef trip for 20 years. They rarely had anything much else. They were hunting on the high fells and were very fit and healthy.
BUT A WARNING - make sure you do NOT feed the spleen as this can cause toxins to build up and in time lead to muscular/skeletal problems.