Hi everyone
Can you help me please.
New to feeding tripe.Have been giving 9 week lab.Burns puppy complete and freeflow tripe.Giving it raw.
Pet shop sells other tripe.ie prize choice,which you have to cook.or Forthglade tripe mince in small packs.
Which tripe would you recommend, and how would you feed it.ie quantity with biscuts /raw or cooked.
many thanks for any advice.
linda.

Definitely raw - cooked tripe smells horrible.

I feed it as a complete meal (but get whole tripes and feed a totally raw diet) so it balances out over time.

Christine

Hi Christine
What do you mean by whole tripe?
thanks linda

Tripe is a cow's stomach and these can sometimes be obtained whole from an abbatoir.

Each puppy is different and will need different amounts of food - the ideal is to keep a pup, and an adult, on the slim side.

My 10 week old pup can eat an 8 oz piece of tripe or chicken frame (or leg that she pinched from her big sister) with no problem

Follow the amounts given to you by your breeder and increase this by a couple of ounces every few days is a reasonable rule of thumb.

Christine

Hi Linda,

I am a raw tripe person...it really really stinks of you cook it LOL.

Prize choice I use as back up when I can't get the real fresh Mccoy.

Prize Choice is in block or free flow bags , My 2 prefer the freeflow bag stuff..I just keep it in the freezer..pour it into a big bowl and soak it for 30 mins which defrosts it and the they eat it like that.

Whatever you do don't put in the microwave...as you wil regret it..

BFN

Pam

Hi Pam
Already made that mistake,by putting it in the microwave.Big mistake.....
How much would you recomend feeding 9 week old.4oz?with biscuts.
thanks linda

Hi Linda,

Although I have never done this exactly I have always beed told to feed approx 4% of the dogs body weight although in puppies it could be a bit more. If you can't or don't know the dogs weight you can work with an average weight for the breed at that age I tend not to go by packets too much neither so I am maybe they wrong person to say.

Just don't worry. Use your eyes as your gauge, you can tell if he/she is starving or greedy. The free flow tripe does have feeding guidelines on the back I believe.

Linda what breed is the puppy?..my mind is a tad forgetful at times.

Pam

Sorry Linda,

I forgot it was a lab..LOL.

Well the puppy will be getting more than my westies and I am sure labs tend to be a bit more greedy LOL ( Sorry if some don't agree not ment nastily).

Hopefully some others will agree but with labs etc your eyes are your best method you can tell if he is getting too chubby ( More than puppish) or too lean. just up or down it till you get the hang of it.

Good luck. Don't think I have been much help.

Pam

You don't need to feed Burns and tripe, Burns is a complete food, tripe isn't. I would not feed raw tripe to a puppy, would worry that his system would not cope with any 'bugs' or medication that the tripe may contain, fine for older dogs, but not puppies at least thats MO. Ja:)kie

I introduce Raw Tripe into a mixed diet with my pups at 4 weeks old. Have never found it gave them the runs, if anything it firms them up. But that is just my experience.

I'm just a fuss pot, any medication or infection that the donor animal has or has been been given may still be in the gut & bowel, that is if the tripe is green, if its been steamed it's probably OK. Even handling it worries me. Ja:)kie

Raw, green, minced, frozen and fed thawed. Also give raw minced chicken. :D

>>If it has been steamed it is probably OK.

Is steamed tripe, bleached tripe?
Bleached/sterilized tripe has no nutritional value :-)

Jackie, if it was slaughtered for human consumption, then any medicines given will be long out of the system, due to the legal withdrawal period the animal will have been through.

But if it's sold for pet food we don't know that it was not just an something that had died or was put down because of some other problem. If you buy from the butcher it wont be green anyway. Still very concerned. Jackie

Hi Jackie, Please dont worry, all my wolfie pups are on it by 4 weeks of age, and I have never ever had a problem from it in 21 years.

Suppose I yearn for the days when you could go to your local abattior and collect what you wanted at least it was not wrapped in plastic and you knew the animial was healthy. Not forgotten all those poor men who worked with chickens and were affected by the hormones the chickens were given. As far as I am concerened today we have to much wrapping and not enough honist dirt. Ja:)kie

Hi Jackie, I think Im lucky and get the sort of tripe you want. It does come in plastic bags, but its got direct from the abottoir, minced and bagged and delivered withing 24 hours. Ive had the same supplier for donkeys years. Dont like the frozen free flow stuff, its lost all its smell!!

Phil
Sorry but wouldn't losing it's smell be a huge bonus... It turns my stomach!!!!!! ;) :p

Beth x

Hi Beth, For us yes, it would be great, but not for the dogs !!!:)

I have the same luck too Phillippa a local butcher who slaughters his own stock and gives me the tripes :)

T

Hi Jackie

I drove for the first time yesterday since my op. and the destination - local abbatoir to collect fresh tripes for dogs :)

Christine

How exciting for you, glad you are feeling better. There was a time when every town however small had a local abbatoir now I think there are only a couple of dozen in the country, so if you have one within driving distance you are fortunate. Or did you specify to the Estate Agents must have abbatoir near by when you were looking for a house. 3 bedrooms, kennels or outside buildings, large garden and ajacent abbatoir
Ja:)kie

They do not go into the food chain Jackie

Linda, we took our GWP puppy off of a complete diet and put her on to tripe and a mixer biscuit a couple of months ago. We are very pleased with the results. She is looking really good :-) She is now 16 weeks old and has roughly 800g of raw tripe (blocks) a day plus mixer. I tend to work out her weight by *eye* too and if she starts to look a bit to 'chunky', I adjust it accordingly.

Thank you all for advice.
Will stick with raw tripe and mixer.Very pleased i dont have to cook it.
linda.

Linda, you said you were feeding Burns & tripe not mixer & tripe. If you feed Burns & tripe only very very little tripe else your pup will be getting too high an amount of protein and you will have a hyper active pup. Ja:)kie

can i just ask - what is the difference between the green tripe you all talk about and the freeflow sort that you get from the pet shops - please don't let it be the colour :O - julie:)

Green is untreated in any way, just as it comes from the cow. You don't know when it is minced it could be anything tripe, chittlins or what have you and it is usualy steamed or steralised in someway before it is processed into mince or blocks. That is why it smells less. At least that is how I understand it, prepared to be wrong. Ja:)kie

Hello Jackie
Yes you are right.I am feeding Burns not mixer.Dont know why i said that.Thanks for pointing the protien out.Although
she had been feed on nutro &4oz of tripe, Twice a day plus 2 nutro/milky feeds.I changed to burns as my other dog eats it and want to have both dogs on the same food eventully.Burns puppy is 21%protein per 100g cant find any
% of protein on the tripe bags.The only thing i have changed from the breeders feed plan is from nutro to burns.
I do want to stay with tripe but now i am concerned, i am giving to high a protien diet. Their is so much different
feed now it is confusing.I do want to get it right
worried linda.

Don't worry it's not a rocket science, just reduce the amount or tripe a little at a time until it's just a taste and increase by a couple of kibbles the Burns. Ja:)kie

Thanks Jackie.

I'm Italian, have 5 Saint Bernards and I feed them Raw and Cooked Tripe from the grocery store/butcher.  Italians eat tripe..it's delicious !  You first have to scrape the back side of the honeycomb to get the excess fat off and then boil it for hours to soften it, strain it and cut it up in bite size pieces then add it to a light tomato sauce with celery and potatos-cook for a while longer and the stew is ready ..a little hot pepper and grated cheese fresh garlic bread and you can share it with the dogs.  I don't buy the stuff in the dog stores, why would you, it's cheap enough and easy enough to prepare.  I also feed Diamond natural..one of the few that wasn't recalled this time (deadly chinese wheat glutten in many of our products-including sorry bout this folks but Nutro) I also feed Dads from time to time and Iams.  They get raw bones from time to time, fresh cooked chicken, beef, macaroni, rice..whatever we are eating.  They also love fruit, like oranges.  I keep them at a good weight and they are gorgeous.

The tripe that has been cleaned for human consumption has very little nutritional value in that stare, it is when it is green with the part digested matter and digestive enzymes that it is good for our dogs as so much of what they eat is de-natured.

They do a tripe kind of stew dish in Poland 'Flaczki' that sounds similar to the way you prepare it, very popular, but I don't like it myself.

Something I used to like was minced up pigs Head which set in it's own jelly with vegetables and lemon juice added, and also dripping with crisped up bacon.  Haven't been able to eat either since I had my children for some reason.  Went off the smell of meat cooking and coffee when pregnant.  Could eat most meat after, but nothing really fatty or anything in jelly.  Couldn't drink coffee for about 18 months.

Hi

Just reading this thread after feeding raw freeflow tripe to my 19 week old Cocker Spaniel.  She's gone fully BARF this week.  Surely the tripe sold for pet feed has to meet a certain standard and therefore can't come from diseased animals?  I assumed it would be the tripe that is removed from a cow, who's meat is destined for the human food chain? I can't believe in this day and age that the pet food does not have to meet certain standards?  I am a little worried about what I have fed to my pup now.  Is freeflow AMP tripe ok for a puppy? Could someone put my mind at rest please? 

Thanks
Sarah

>Could someone put my mind at rest please? 

Don't worry. :-) AMP (Anglian Meat Products) is a member of the Pet Food Manufacturers Association who say on their website that:
All raw materials used by the industry come from animals which have passed veterinary inspections as fit for human consumption. 
They may well be the parts that culturally we in the West don't choose to eat ourselves, but that doesn't mean they're not perfectly safe to eat.

>Something I used to like was minced up pigs Head which set in it's own jelly with vegetables and lemon juice added

:) :)

My Father used to make that when we were kids, over here it's called BRAWN (in Wales ;) )  I was never a fan of it but the rest of the family loved it - totally different to the stuff available in the shops ;)

He also used to boil up a sheep's head for the dog, one day my aunt (his sister) was visiting while he was boiling the sheep's head, she thought it was for us and he didn't disagree, she was revolted!!!  the next day she called in and he offered her a lovely piece of meat to try, wonderful, what is it?   He told her it was Bath Chap - scrumptious!  He let her finish it all before telling her Bath Chap was...     Sheep's Cheek!!!!  LOL    :-D :-D  She should have known what he was like LOL

Yep I have been told by a neighbour that it is brawn but not sure if it is prepared the same way here. 

It is strange  how squeamish people have become with increasing affluence, where once a upon a time nothing would be wasted.

How many people these days eat much offal?

Thanks.  I thought that there must be regulations in place, but this string scared me slightly.  Have stopped worrying now!

We used to have brawn too!
I did like it, an elderly aunt made it every so often, always thought it was peculiar to this region though it cant be the case.
Karen :)