Anyone feed tripe?

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Rosie (12 month border collie) seems to have no appetite at all. She hardly eats a thing. I have tried several brands, types, mixes etc but nothing excites her for long. She is very fit and healthy, shiny coat, bright eyes, very active and happy but she is extremely slim.

I have always been very wary of creating a fussy eater but I have given in and bought tripe! I added a small amount to her normal dinner this evening and she wolfed it down :)

So, I was wondering, do you feed tripe and if so - how much for what size dog?
 
We used to and kept a spare fridge for the occasion and my mother still maintains it is the best thing you can feed a dog, if you can stand the smell. This was in the days before dry food and it suited them very well...so it was fed alone or with table scraps, then later, with Winalot. We have always fed by eye rather than measurements - too skinny, up the amount, too porky, cut it.

If she is fit and healthy as you say, I wouldn't worry about catering to her every whim, they soon tell you when they are unwell or poor and she neither looks or sounds it, rather a skinny than a fatty where dogs are concerned and she always looks fine to me x

Tripe is hard to feed here since the post-BSE restrictions, so can only get it from a few sources, jealous!
 
Yep I get it for the boys - it comes either frozen in blocks or as mince - both smell really bad but they love it! I don't measure it exactly just chuck some in a bowl - they love it:) Its obviously for a cocker spangle and a leggy Lab:D

A couple of the butchers here also have tripe sometimes so I get it if I see it:)
 
Thanks all :D

I would normally take the view that if she is not eating, she's not hungry. She picks at her food and then goes back for another pick a bit later and so on. But I can't actually leave food down ad lib because of the other two!

If only there was a bit more daylight either end of the working day I would take some photos of her - especially as it was her birthday last Thursday :)
 
I feed it now and again as the offal part of their raw diet, can't stand the smell so I feed the freeflow frozen green tripe frozen but they sill love it!!

Like CC I feed by eye so it depends how porky they are at the time as to how much they get as tripe can put on weight.

One of my sisters Huskys has always been a finnicky eater and now at 15 is still as difficlut to get to eat much, my sister thinks she has a problem somewhere as she eats small amounts very slowly but the vet has not found anything.

Have you thought of feeding her raw? That might be what she is looking for and looking at some dog food I can't say I blame her!
 
Go raw! Give her some chicken wings. ;)

My lot love tripe: I sourced it from a bloke who supplies greyhound trainers. It's very cheap and the boys look well on it.
 
Perhaps 30 years ago, when I had several dogs, of mine and others, I used to buy whole bullocks tripe direct from the abattoir. Perhaps 3 or 4 a week. By the end of the week, and in the summer, they used to hum a bit. The older the tripes, the more the dogs seemed to enjoy them!!

Since then, I've fed complete feeds, and to be quite honest, I can't say that the dogs look any better, or worse for it. Except when there's a need for it, I found that it's an awful lot of faffing about, for little reward.

When I kill lambs, for our own use, then the dogs get the tripe, but only as a way of using them up, and as a treat!

Alec.
 
I used to feed nothing but raw tripe for years, and my mother before me. She reared and produced show champions amongst others on a tripe diet, the only time they had extra food was in the latter stages of pregnancy and rearing a litter.
I used to get whole tripes from the abbattoir, disgusting stuff that stank the place out but one of the best foods you can get imho. Unfortunately all the small abbattoirs round here have closed down now and the bigger ones are too tied up with bureacracy to be able to supply it.:(
 
Yes we feed tripe! Lovely stuff :rolleyes::D we feed half a pound on top of normal amount a day in shooting season. If one dog is working hard, 6 days a week, it's a pound on top a day. Keeps the weight on :)
 
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