would like to know about green tripett - Page 2

Ah. I gotcha. Thank you, Louis, for explaining the difference between green and the freezer-store type. So it aides in digestion for GSDs, or does it serve other useful purposes?

Hey Abhay, couldn't a person just buy whole stomachs at private slaughter houses or something?  I know that the rules have changed since I picked up bone and meat scraps from a privately owned slaughterhouse near the farm I used to own in Arkansas many years ago.  They processed home raised animals and deer for a fee.  They would even give me bone dust and such, all for free.  I didn't know to ask for the stomach then,or they would probably have given it to me.  Very nice neighborly people.

Veronica

www.greentripe.com has an amazing product called Xcalliber green tripe.  It has bone, and all kinds of other organ meat in there!

Many of our members in this region have used this before a show or a competition, or even as a raw feeding diet, it works well for building muscle, and the dog LOVE LOVE LOVE it!  I noticed Jager a little on the skinny side, he's at that age now, so I started feeding it to him again, and he is looking really great in just a few days!

Expensive to ship, but if you can get several people to buy together it is worth it!  And yes it stinks, but if you were ever around dairy farms, the smell is very familiar!

~Kari

I agree with KariM that Greentripe.com makes excellent products. However, I buy the Performance Dog directly (no additional shipping charges) from my Oma's Pride dealer who lives in my town. It costs me $11.50 (plus sales tax) for a 5# roll. A roll lasts for 4 GSD's perhaps a week. This product has nutritional values that extend beyond aiding the digestion.

In the State of California, it is illegal for slaughter houses to sell green tripe. Perhaps, it may be different if you have them slaughter your own cattle.

My dogs are 7, 9.5, and 12 years old, respectively. They are very youthful and athletic. The 12-year-old female walks on her hind legs--can jump straight up in the air and on and off the grooming table.

seems good product to try.

if anyone willing to order from greentripe.com sure i can share with shipping cost and i don't need much as i've only one gsd.

and i'm in bay area.

whats the amount size do you feed them and also how often.....

AKVeronica,  I know the type of home owned Mom and Pop type processing businesses that you are talking about. They will usually allow anyone to rummage through their scrap barrels, and take what trim, fat and bones one can haul away.  These places have the huge stomachs in barrels. I imagine if they didn't see you, and if you could somehow  lift and transport the huge water baloon like substance home?

If you ask any of these places to sell you a stomach or green tripe, they will immediately refuse. No matter how private or small the business, they know better. Now I can only speak for my state and the bordering states to me, but I am in Cattle Country.  Maybe things are done different in Arkansas.

It's been about ten years, since I lived in that farm in Arkansas near the Mom and Pop slaughterhouse, Abhay.  As for getting the huge stomachs home....where there's a will, there's a way. :-)

Veronica

Veronica,  I would be curious to what they would have said, but I bet they would have told you, No Way. 

I don't know why it is, but every small processing business I have ever seen, is owned by a husband and wife.  They are always either fighting, or thinking about divorce, or going through a family crisis.  Another thing is sometimes they leave a 22 shell casing in the damn meat.

What about mad cow?     I think I have it.     Denny Crane!

.22"s ??    Thats cold.     I bit into a high powered projectile from a .22 caliber once in a venison steak, in a state where thats not a legal weapon for hunting deer.   I could have turned the guy in for poaching I guess.  

I'm sorry I dont have anything intelligent to say about green tripe.

Kool,

If you are in the bay area, it is cheaper to just go down to Hollister and pick it up!