How much and how often green tripe to feed??? - Page 1

Hi Steph:  If I were you, I would send a Pm to Animules 
  http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/userinfo.html?userid=14601

She has wrestled with the whole magilla just as you are.  Most of us city folk get ours frozen and rough ground, so I wouldnt have the foggiest idea of how to cut it up.  But if you send  a PM to Animules, she'll be able to tell you what you need to know.

I feed mine twice a day. 
The  amounts I feed are:   Morning meal is 1/2 lb of tripe/organ blend.  Evening meal is approx 1lb whole bones

Lucky you Steph!  This is what I do.  I get a bunch of gallon freezer bags and have them open ready to fill.  I spread the tripe out on a tarp outside and hose it off to get the big junk out.  This takes some time as you will be wrestling with it to turn it over and inside out.   

Then Kitchen shears!  I cut into chunks and fill each bag about 1/2 way.  This I will mix with other raw stuff so each bag is a day or two's worth of tripe for my three dogs.   Yes I feed lungs.  I cut and package it the same way.

Messy, stinky, disgusting stuff the dogs love. 

No, I do try to mix some in a few times a week though.   And I grind some of it and freeze a few tablespoons in to each sandwich bags to take during the summer to mix with a bit of water to make sure they drink. 

 steph,

green tripe is fed as a meat, not as an organ...so you can feed it as much and as often as you like (or until your supply runs out!).  if it's grass fed you can just rinse it, or you can leave it as is.  if it's grain fed you should rinse everything off of it.

the easiest way is to wear rubber or vinyl gloves, and use a really large really sharp knife to cut.  if you are able to partially freeze it before cutting, it makes the cutting much easier.  if not, just hold a corner and slice away.  using a large sharp knife is much easier than trying to cut it with utility shears.

lungs are fantastic, feed them with all the cartilage and glands and fat attached.  some dogs don't like the texture; it's sort of foamy and slimy, so you can feed it partially frozen as well.  lungs are also fed as a meat, not an organ.

good luck!
donna

 Here is a great article about tripe...

http://www.admirationwellness.com/greenTripe1of5.html

You can pretty much feed it all by itself...I usually feed tripe as a full meal or two a week for my dogs.  I also have fed lung when I've been lucky enough to get a whole animal (mostly deer and sheep), and the texture is nasty IMO (I make my husband cut it up!) but my dogs gobble it down.