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Posted by Lester on December 17, 2008, 4:11 pm Link: BARKADAWORKINGDOG
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FYI not sure about the origin of this article, but I found it from surfing around. I've consulted with some other old school canine conditioners, and they all attest to the positive attributes of this feed. I just started adding it to my feeding regimen (.5 lb in evening w .5 cup of Abady granular, kibble with granular in the AM), and the dogs LOVE it (even though it smells NASTY).... and its relatively inexpensive.. about 7bucks per container at a specialty feed shop.
the article is pasted below, along with the link to the Bravo Raw Feed Link..... good stuff, hope it helps.
RAW GREEN TRIPE
This Long Neglected Food Can Upgrade The Success of Your Feeding Program, And Now It's Easy to Use.
If there's a "secret" food that offers today's performance dogs a real boost in health over and above dog food, this may just be it. This food looks weird, smells bad, and yet delivers nutrients in a profile unavailable in other foods. Dogs love it and are genetically designed to thrive on it, yet it's been largely overlooked and underestimated by performance dog fanciers. It's tripe.
So what is tripe? Well, for one thing, tripe is among the first tissue eaten by wild dogs and wolves in the prey species they feed upon. Simply--tripe is the stomach tissue of ruminant herbivores (plant eating animals). Wild dogs and wolves, and therefore your dog, crave tripe when exposed to it. Wildlife biologists have observed that wolves often eat the stomach (tripe) and contents before muscle meat. Clearly, there's a reason why wolves have such a strong drive to obtain tripe. This preference can be explained by the highly unique nutritional profile of tripe, which appears to play an important survival role.
The type of tripe found in most markets today is composed of the lining of beef stomach. There are two beef stomach chambers, and several types of tripe that all contain similar nutritional profiles. The best tasting tripe comes from the second stomach chamber, and is called honeycomb tripe because the inner side has a pattern similar to a honeycomb. Pocket tripe is cut from the end of the second stomach chamber, and is shaped like a honeycombed pocket. There is also plain or smooth tripe that comes from the first stomach.
The use of tripe in human nutrition is quite ancient. Today, the most common use of tripe is in the soup called medudo, popular in Spanish-speaking cultures. This soup is served to those suffering from a hangover, and is said to rid them of nausea and headache. French, Italian and other cultures also have tripe dishes like tripes ? la mode de Caen ? tripe braised with carrots, onions and cider, among others.
The Nutritional Breakdown of Tripe
Tripe, because of its metabolic function of digestion in the prey species wild dogs and wolves eat, contains a very unique profile of nutrients. As in wild diets, raw tripe appears to be the perfect complement to muscle and organ meat, and may well help performance dogs digest and absorb the overall diet more efficiently.
"?raw tripe appears to be the perfect complement to muscle and organ meat, and may well help performance dogs digest and absorb the overall diet more efficiently."
A recent laboratory analysis has given up many of tripe's secrets, and helped us understand why it holds so many benefits for performance dogs.
First, the calorie ratio of tripe is different from meat, and may enhance survival in the wild. Unlike meat found in wild game, tripe is comparatively high in fat. By calorie contribution, tripe is actually 63% fat, much higher than wild muscle meat. The type of fats in tripe is also interesting.
The fatty acids in tripe range from short-chain to longer chain structures. Interestingly, significant amounts of ecosinoids are present in tripe. Ecosinoids are 20 carbon length structures, which are powerful metabolic regulators.
The pH of tripe, unlike muscle or organ meat, is comparatively more acid with a pH of 6.7. Digestive acids in the stomach, used to break down foods eaten by the prey species, make tripe acidic. There are various organic acids in tripe, most notably acetic acid, also known as vinegar. This vinegar content is one of the factors that gives raw tripe it's well-deserved reputation for pungent odor.
An important organic acid in tripe found in high concentrations is lactic acid. Lactic acid contains acidophilus cultures, which are transferred to the dog's own stomach. These cultures help establish "friendly bacteria" which aids both digestion and helping to purge dangerous food toxins like botulism and salmonella.
LAB ANALYSIS OF TRIPE BREAKDOWN
Calories 765
Moisture 71%
Protein 16%
Fat 12%
Ash 1.2%
pH 6.12
The protein content of tripe is lower than in muscle or organ meats. Additionally, the biological value of tripe protein does not favorably compare. However, its clear dogs crave and benefit from tripe for reasons other than protein value alone.
This wide variety of nutrients in these ratios is found only in tripe.
Breeding and Working Performance Dogs on Tripe
Mary C. Voss, of Aromas, California, has been involved in breeding and racing champion Afghans for a decade. Her positive experience with raw tripe is typical. A longtime feeder of raw tripe, her dogs have won numerous field championships.
She began to use tripe before her second litter, and both the dam and sire had been on tripe for over two years. In her well-written article in SIGHT HOUND REVIEW, she recounted the results of this tripe-reared litter: "It was a more robust litter than the first. The pups had been on tripe essentially since conception and are far superior, in many ways, to the first litter."
The Right Tripe
Clearly, tripe contains many special benefits for today's performance dogs. But obtaining potent and safe tripe proves surprisingly difficult.
Ideally, tripe should be given to your performance dog raw. Cooking easily damages delicate tripe enzymes and amino acids. However, virtually all tripe available at supermarkets has been chemically treated or cooked by processors to make it more palatable for humans. So the attractive tripe you see in stores holds little value to your dog compared to raw tripe. In contrast, raw tripe looks bad and smells worse.
Raw tripe can spoil quickly even when refrigerated. Because it smells so bad to begin with, it can be hard to know when raw tripe begins to "go bad". There are two methods of making raw tripe easier to use, while retaining its powerful nutritional advantages: freezing and freeze-drying.
Freezing tripe makes real sense for performance dogs. Freezing does not affect the nutritional power of tripe, but makes it much easier to handle and store. Frozen tripe, because it is over 70% water, can be quite expensive to ship.
Freeze-dried raw tripe may be the solution for feeding performance dogs. Freeze-drying involves freezing tripe in controlled sanitary stainless steel columns, then pulling a vacuum to remove virtually all the moisture. Freeze drying retains nutrient viability as does freezing, but produces tripe that weighs about 65% less than frozen tripe. Because freeze-drying retains nutrients and flavor, while reducing weight, freeze-dried foods are very common in the manned space flights and for backpacking.
Storing freeze-dried raw tripe is easy. Simply store in a plastic container and use as needed. Freeze-dried raw tripe delivers the nutrition of tripe, while greatly increasing its real world use.
Once you try real raw tripe, in whatever form, you'll see what the big deal is all about. Raw tripe is easier to obtain and use than ever before, and after you see the results it produces, it won't be a secret anymore. And you won't mind the smell, either.
Raw green tripe--it's a natural for performance dogs!
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