Make Dehydrated Sweet Potato Dog Treats

Making your own sweet potato dog treats in your oven is incredibly.

Make dehydrated sweet potato dog treats.

Making treats like chicken jerky or sweet potato dog treats in a food dehydrator not only make less of a mess but usually cost less to make than the commercial treats you buy in the store. Some of the thicker slices about 1 4 inch were still just a little pliable meaning they were somewhat bendable like jerky my sheltie s favorite while the thinner pieces about 1 8 inch were dry and crunchy more like potato chip treats the definite preference of my daughter s yorkie poo. Of course you could feed these treats to the humans of the household as well i taste tested them and dried out sweet potatoes don t do much for me but to each their own. Fortunately it is both easy and inexpensive to dehydrate sweet potatoes even without using a dehydrator.

Wash the sweet potato or yam the very orange type. Diy sweet potato dog chews. How to make dehydrated sweet potato dog treats. I have since bought a dehydrator so if you want more info on making them that way look here.

Cut down the middle lengthwise. Pots pans mixing bowls and cooking utensils stack up pretty fast when you are baking. Slice the sweet potato into 1 4 slices you can also cut down the middle lengthwise and slice into 1 4 strips. To make easy diy sweet potato dog chews.

Dehydrated sweet potatoes can fill your dog s desire for sugary snacks while at the same time giving him something to chew on. Scrub sweet potatoes or yams. When baking dog biscuits for your fur family or cooking homemade dog food there is always a bit of mess. Slice into 1 8 to 3 8 pieces.

Instead i bought one sweet potato and some chicken and parsley to make dehydrated dog treats for my other dogs. Dogs love sweet food. They much preferred the meat treats than the sweet potato treats. I typically dehydrate my sweet potato dog treats approximately 10 12 hours.

Watching and waiting to see what was going on. Come morning those sweet potato slices had turned into sweet potato jerky. The smell of the liver and heart was driving them crazy. How to make dehydrated dog treats.

Excalibur s sweet potato recipe. The method i used to make dehydrated sweet potato dog treats was super easy and is done in the oven. Thoroughly wash and peel sweet potatoes. I like to have them a bit soft when done because they will harden once cooled and refrigerated.

Dehydrated dog treats review. Preheat oven to 250 f. Layout on your dehydrator trays and dry for 3 12 hours. From the moment i started preparing the meat coco and joey never left my side.

You may need to test a batch or two until you get the texture where you and your puppy dog like them. They thicker your slices the longer they will take. Unfortunately for them most sweets are not good for them.