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Do not attempt pig's liver inside the house. Even the dogs turned their noses up at it. Kangaroo liver seems to be the right level of stench for the dogs but won't stink the house up.
Kangaroo liver. Well, no telling where you might be from, would there!
I've never tried dehydrating any innards for treats. What I can get goes in my homemade dog food. Interesting idea on the tripe tho! Tripe is very hard for me to get, due to regulations. Used to be I could get it at a reasonable price from a raw food supplier, but the popularity of raw feeding has gone up - and so has the price.
Kangaroo liver. Well, no telling where you might be from, would there!
I've never tried dehydrating any innards for treats. What I can get goes in my homemade dog food. Interesting idea on the tripe tho! Tripe is very hard for me to get, due to regulations. Used to be I could get it at a reasonable price from a raw food supplier, but the popularity of raw feeding has gone up - and so has the price.
I think you can get kangaroo pet food in the US. Although there are some pretty silly laws now around the sale of kangaroo products in some US states. I think kangaroo meat is generally considered excellent for dogs, high protein, very lean etc. A lot of vets seem to recommend it where a dog has food allergies. Also, because it is a by-product of population management (ie culling) there is a lot more meat than human consumption demand so it doesn't tend to be just the scraps as is the case for a lot of other pet grade meats.
You would really have to love menudo to pay the price for tripe. My dogs used to get tripe, but now it is just as cheap to feed them good steak (and they don't get a lot of steak, either). Mostly, if they are getting beef, it is inside round or bottom round.
Anything that is innards is priced out of dog food range. Sorry, my dogs love chicken livers, but at $8 a pound, they are not getting any chicken livers.
I've seen kangaroo dog kibble advertised by a local feed store. My dogs don't get kibble, so I haven't bought any, but I suspect it would be worth the cost if a dog had allergies but could eat that type of kibble.
You would really have to love menudo to pay the price for tripe. My dogs used to get tripe, but now it is just as cheap to feed them good steak (and they don't get a lot of steak, either). Mostly, if they are getting beef, it is inside round or bottom round.
I have been surprised at how expensive meat has become in the US.
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Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke
Anything that is innards is priced out of dog food range. Sorry, my dogs love chicken livers, but at $8 a pound, they are not getting any chicken livers.
I go a few suburbs over to an Asian butcher (he also does some amazing Thai fermented pork sausages, but that's another thread) who does beef liver for AU$4/kg so ~$US2.80/pound, I can usually get kangaroo liver for $3/kg or less. Too many people want to make chicken liver pate these days, but there are cheap options around.
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Erm. Tried that a couple of times, night after you know, when I was living down in the southwest. Thanks, but I'll stick with a hard pass on that now!
Fifteen or so years ago work had me going to Warsaw fairly regularly. While in Poland I discovered their tripe soup. Fantastic stuff. I have not tried menudo. Although it seems to work by being so awful you forget about your hangover.
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Fifteen or so years ago work had me going to Warsaw fairly regularly. While in Poland I discovered their tripe soup. Fantastic stuff. I have not tried menudo. Although it seems to work by being so awful you forget about your hangover.
I'd say that was an accurate description of my experience with it!
I got my hands on a whole beef heart. I sliced it really thin and put the meat into the dehydrator and dried it until it is crisp.
If I ever do it again, I will put the dehydrator outside because heart STINKS! when it is drying. It is really yucky and it stunk up my whole garage.
I will have to do it again because my dogs are absolutely crazy about this dried heart jerky.
So... heart and tripe get cooked outside. Dogs, being dogs, love stinky food.
Try pork liver- it's not as stinky as beef heart or liver. I would still dehydrate it outside. My dogs love it.
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