Feeding raw diet

Does anyone here feed raw or BARF and if so what do you feed?
Have you ever used green tripe? Where did you find it at??
I've been wanting to switch to a raw diet but I can't find any of the things (raw meaty bones, green tripe, etc.) in this area! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

 

Local grocery stores are good for the meat and bones. Just ask the meat market manager. I get beef bones and chicken from my local Pig Wig. I hear the tripe is good, but can't find it here. I also use Salmon and Trout when I can.

 

Do you have any meat packing plants in your area? Always a good source of many different meats. Farmers/ranchers? A good source for still births as well as calves/lambs/kids that just don't make it. Make friends with those people so they will call you when they have a carcass to pass along. Join the closest yahoo BARF list to you. They do group buys. You can get frozen tripe @ greentripe.com. Make nice with butcher shops in your area and ask them to save the trim for you, too! Anyone you know a hunter, or fisher? Ask for their discards.

HTH,

~Tiger

 

When I first got my dog a year ago, the lady I got him from was feeding green tripe and chicken backs, and he was FAT (just like her other five dogs, hmmm...). Since then I've been feeding elk, beef, whole fresh sardines (head, guts, and all), blueberries as a treat for the antioxidants, and a couple times a week I will throw in some kibble (Taste of the Wild). He is doing very well on this diet. His coat is dark and glossy, and with proper exercise and diet he's gone from an obese 65 pounds to a more acceptable 50 pounds, and still shedding weight (I'm thinking his ideal is 45-ish).
The BARF diet is great, but very expensive. I've actually had better luck feeding whole animals (ie: rabbits, fish, quail, etc.), which are less expensive and just as good, but a little harder to come by.

 

That's kinda hard to find out here in NYC... Their used to be allot of butchers all around but they have all but disappeared... Now it's just supermarkets and they get most of their meat already pretty clean & can't give any of it away to people ... I've asked a couple of the butchers at these markets and they say that they are not allowed and would get fired if they did....