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Organ Meat

Posted : 12/16/2006 1:00:58 PM

For the folks that feed home cooked, what type of organs do you feed and how often? By types, I mean heart, kidneys, liver; and is it beef, chicken, lamb, pork?

chewbecca

Posted : 12/16/2006 1:19:25 PM

Well, heart is not considered an organ meat. It's a muscle meat and I feed it.

I mainly feed liver for organ meat because I can easily find it and it's cheap.
Since organ meat is not a gigantic part of her diet, liver is fine for me to feed and a little bit last a LONG time. I normally only have to buy once a month, if even, it all depends on how much I buy. Ella weighs 60 lbs. so that only equals about .96 of an ounce daily. I feed beef liver and chicken liver. But I'd feed most organs if I could find them.

But I don't homecook, I feed raw.

ladiebug

Posted : 12/16/2006 2:24:00 PM

Thanks. IF I could trust the butchers around here, I'd feed raw. I have some Serious reservations though and am afraid to make my dogs sick.

Ihearthuskybutts

Posted : 12/16/2006 2:29:42 PM

I also feed raw. In our house, Friday is liver day. We feed our 55-65lb dogs about 250g of the stuff--a bit less than half that daily meal. They usually get beef liver, but they like chicken liver too.
Monday is green tripe day. Also around 250g each.
The model I use to raw feed states that they receive organs as 10% of their diets, and half of that 10% should be liver. That's what I try and aim for![

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The only other organ I've experimented with is kidney, which was hated all around. I don't come across other organs too much, but if I did, I'd give 'em a shot.

ladiebug

Posted : 12/16/2006 2:33:14 PM

ORIGINAL: Ihearthuskybutts

The model I use to raw feed states that they receive organs as 10% of their diets, and half of that 10% should be liver. That's what I try and aim for![]

That sounds like a good model to follow, thanks.

sandra_slayton

Posted : 12/16/2006 4:33:24 PM

I use beef and chicken liver, chicken gizzards, occasionaly, but rarely tripe. I do use raw chicken hearts which they like. the other meat is cooked.

chewbecca

Posted : 12/16/2006 5:28:46 PM

Oh!
I forgot, d'oh, I feed tripe!

And, oh man! She LOOOOVVVVEEEESSS it!
It's SOOO good for them too!

ladiebug

Posted : 12/16/2006 5:34:54 PM

What type of tripe? The white honeycomb, or the green?

I don't know if I can handle tripe. One of my dad's favorite things was beef tripe soup. Mom used to cook it for him regularly, well that stuff STUNK up the whole house!! You could smell it for days cause first, she'd cook the tripe for about 6 hours, I guess to tenderize it, then cool it, then she'd "clean" it and slice it up. At that point it went into another pot with the broth and other seasonings. I tasted it once and EEEEHhhhhhwwwwwwwwww!!!! [:'(][:'(]
Now when I see tripe in the store, or think of it, I turn green.

chewbecca

Posted : 12/16/2006 6:46:51 PM

I buy beef green tripe usually from A Place for Paws and it's already ground up and doesn't stink at all.
My doggy health food store lady is calling me on Monday because I'm going to be ordering BARF's beef green tripe instead because she said it will be cheaper for me.

chelsea_b

Posted : 12/16/2006 11:49:20 PM

For the folks that feed home cooked, what type of organs do you feed and how often? By types, I mean heart, kidneys, liver; and is it beef, chicken, lamb, pork?

I mostly feed beef kidney and calf liver. But I have some turkey organs that are going in the next few batches of food. I'm not sure what's there exactly. Whatever they give you in the little pouches inside whole turkeys, they got thrown in the freezer on Thanksgiving (along with the necks, which Cherokee won't touch, nor will my sister's vacuum dog [&:]). I also buy chicken livers once in a while.

tia2

Posted : 12/17/2006 9:33:50 AM

I feed usually chicken liver (I can't seem to find the beef) and green tripe. Those two are the easiest to access around here. Thanksgiving time though, they get the innards of the turkey.
I feed kibble too though, so they probably get the organs only 1-2 times per week.