Bully sticks/pizzles

Ruby Red · 01-23-2010, 04:27 PM

Ermm, I found this link, http://blog.yassysgdk.com/2009/05/18...-for-dogs.aspx [I have made another post on the deer antlers] but I have copied over the bit about bully sticks.................

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Anyway,bully sticks are natural chew and good but some bully sticks are not really just using one single ingredients.I have seen one made with potato starch,I have seen one being irradiated,I have seen one made with liquid smoke... Some are odor-less. I am not sure how they make it to odorless for something that has natural smell to it.I prefer getting one with smell rather than odor-less bully sticks. And,it is good practice to look label of the products very carefully.

Does anyone know how they make them odourless? Ruby’s are, and tbh I don’t have a clue how it is ‘cooked’ - what do you guys know about your bully sticks?

Spyglass Sally · 01-23-2010, 05:38 PM

These are non-irradiated and "inspected and approved by USDA/FDA and national food inspection authorities. They come from free-range South American cattle that are grass-fed without growth hormones or any other unnatural additives commonly used with feed lot cattle."

As far as odor and how bully sticks are made, I found this:

While processing, the bull's penis that is usually measures around 23-25 inches in length, is removed and cleaned. Manufactures of bully sticks hang the pizzles vertically to allow containing fluids to fully run out. Without these fluids the bully stick is odorless. At the next stage of processing bully sticks are stretched, twisted and then dried or/and smoked. The outcome is a 30-40 inches long hard brown stick which is then cut into pieces appropriate for dogs of all sizes. You can choose small bully sticks of 4'', large beef pizzles of 36'' and any length between.

KeeperBoy · 01-23-2010, 05:52 PM

I knew what a bully stick is... but reading how they make it, so much more disgusting!!!

Doreen · 01-23-2010, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by KeeperBoy

I knew what a bully stick is... but reading how they make it, so much more disgusting!!!

AussieGirl · 01-23-2010, 09:11 PM

We can't get them, don't think I could handle her chewing on one in the house and leaving it all over the place (my little guy would pick it up and play with it which would def freak me out) knowing what it is ewww

bruinsBoxers · 03-26-2010, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by KeeperBoy

I knew what a bully stick is... but reading how they make it, so much more disgusting!!!

sorry .

Dragon · 03-26-2010, 05:04 PM

has nobody ever had prairie oysters before???

Dragon · 03-26-2010, 05:39 PM

Oh by the way for my work I have the priveldge of going to Champion dog Foods in Morinville alberta. They are the makers of Acana and Orijen (dog food of the year)

That's all I gotta say... the smell..... *cringes*...

Other places that smell lovely i have been too:

Labatt's Brewery (make budwieser too)
Robin Hood flour Mill (our food)
West Coast reduction (turn animals into your make up ladies!)
Cargill Foods (our food)
McCann Foods (french fries)
Roger's Sugar (sugar from sugar beets)

Trust me on this.... Sometimes its best not to know