More about green tripe

It’s been a couple of weeks since I received my first order of “innards” from GreenTripe.com, and the dogs have had a chance to sample all the different goodies.  They just love, love, love the Tripe Stuffed Raw Cow Hooves, and at just $1.25 each, they’re a great bargain.  I offer them frozen, straight from the freezer, so it makes them long-lasting and gives the dogs a good dental workout.  They stink ever so slightly ("essence of barnyard"), but no more so than the dried cow hooves you find at pet stores.  The dogs will lick out the stuffing and then chew on the hoof, but I end up tossing out the thickest part of the hoof at the end of the day.  You can also buy unstuffed raw hooves, for 33 cents each, but I don’t know if they have much nutritional value.  If you’re going to pay for the special shipping and styrofoam crate and dry ice, you’d might as well spend a little extra and get the stuffed hooves.

Unfortunately, the dogs are pretty ambivalent about the tracheas and gullets ("unfortunate" because I have so many of them, now I have to figure out how to use them up!).  The tracheas are kind of slimy and tough to grip, and the dogs seem confused by them.  They’ll eat them if I chop the tracheas into smaller pieces (which I’m doing), but I don’t relish the idea of doing that all the time.  The gullets seem better for chewing, but they’re so large that they have to be cut into smaller pieces or they just get wasted.  I can thaw and chop one gullet into four pieces, which means two days worth of snacks, but it’s a lot of work and has to be done carefully, with a big cleaver.

I found another website, A Place for Paws, which sells green tripe, chicken necks and backs, and a selection of other raw items, but they only ship their perishable products to the midwest.  Still, it might be a good source for people living in that area (check the delivery map on their website).  Their prices seem to be excellent.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 08/29 at 11:15 AM

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  1. Place for Paws has excellent product, I used to order from them. Now I order stuff like tripe and rabbit from http://www.rawfeeder.com/ because they deliver all over the three state area for $10.00. Since my freezer is on my covered back deck, it gets delivered straight into my freezer.
    Cooper & Daphne would be happy to demonstrate enthusiastic consumption of large slimy dead cow parts!

    Posted by Carina  on  08/31  at  05:07 PM

  2. I think I’m going to end up ordering a meat grinder.  I find the gullets so hard to work with—hard to cut when frozen, and slippery when thawed—and I’m afraid I’m going to injure myself if I keep trying to chop them up.  I’ll probably have to grind a lot of what I’ve got in the freezer right now, and in the future, stick to chicken pieces.  The dogs really love the green tripe itself—I wish I could find an inexpensive local source for it.

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  08/31  at  10:06 PM
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