Beef Skin Roll

Beef skin, rolled and air-dried into a chew of around 30cm. The Beef Skin Roll is the smallest of the skin rolls in our range, which makes it a proper everyday chew for small and medium dogs without being an all-evening job.

Key features

• 75% protein, 6% fat. Leaner than any beef skin roll we have found published figures for, and comfortably inside our low fat range.
• One ingredient. Beef skin, air-dried. No additives, no preservatives, nothing sprayed on afterwards for flavour.
• Collagen rich by nature. Skin is largely collagen, so this is a collagen chew because of what it is made of rather than anything done to it. That is why you will find it in our collagen range.
• Firm and fibrous. Rolling makes it thicker than a flat piece of skin, so there is real work in it. That scraping is what makes it one of our dental chews.
• Around 30cm. As a natural product, length, weight and thickness all vary from piece to piece.
• Hairless. Plenty of beef skin rolls are sold with the hair still on, listed as hairy beef skin or skin with fur. This one is not, which makes it a tidier thing to have on the carpet.
• Not rawhide. Genuinely not, and there is more on that below.

Which size dog?

This one suits small to medium dogs. It gives them something substantial to settle down with, at a size that works as a regular treat rather than an occasional big one.

For medium to large dogs we would point you at the Buffalo Wrap or the Camel Wrap instead. Both are the same sort of chew at roughly twice the weight, so they stand up far better to a bigger jaw, and they work out cheaper by weight into the bargain. Buying two of these is not quite the same thing, because a large dog gets through a short chew faster than the size difference suggests.

Pack sizes

• Single. One roll, around 110g.
• 2 Pack. Two rolls, around 220g.
• 10 Pack. Ten rolls, around 1.1kg, and the best value of the three.

Is it rawhide?

No, and it is a fair question, because the two look similar on a shelf and there is a lot of conflicting information about it online. Rawhide is a by-product of the leather trade. It is usually chemically treated, and it swells in the stomach rather than breaking down. This is beef skin, air-dried, with nothing added, and it digests properly. You will find it among our rawhide alternatives.

What about collagen?

Skin is largely collagen, so you will see plenty of claims made for chews like this one. We would rather just tell you what it is. This is a collagen-rich chew because of what it is made of, not because anything has been added to it, and it happens to be a lean one as well.

Beef skin roll, beef wrap, beef roll?

All the same chew. Beef skin is the ingredient, and a roll (some shops say wrap, slice or stick) is that skin rolled up. You will also see it as rolled beef skin, or a bully roll. Different names for the same thing, which makes comparing prices harder than it ought to be.

Three things that genuinely are different, and worth knowing about when you compare:

• Beef head skin is skin from the head rather than the body, and it makes a thicker, coarser chew. A fair amount of what is listed simply as beef skin is actually head skin.
• Beef cheek rolls are a different cut again, rolled into a much denser chew. Cheek rolls, skin rolls and rawhide all get confused with one another, and they are three different things.
• Braided beef skin is several strips plaited together rather than one piece rolled. It tends to last a little longer for the weight, and to cost more.

Worth knowing

It is beef, which is one of the proteins dogs most often react to. If that sounds like yours, the Camel Wrap is the same shape in a protein almost no dog has ever met. You will see beef skin rolls described as hypoallergenic, and for a dog that reacts to beef they are nothing of the sort.

As it softens, keep an eye out for big pieces being gulped rather than chewed, and take it away once it is small enough to swallow whole.

Suitable for puppies from 12 weeks, with supervision.

Please supervise your dog while they enjoy this treat, and make sure fresh water is always available. As a natural product, size and thickness may vary.