Instead i bought one sweet potato and some chicken and parsley to make dehydrated dog treats for my other dogs.
Make dehydrated sweet potato dog treats.
Preheat oven to 250 f.
When baking dog biscuits for your fur family or cooking homemade dog food there is always a bit of mess.
The smell of the liver and heart was driving them crazy.
Thoroughly wash and peel sweet potatoes.
They much preferred the meat treats than the sweet potato treats.
Fortunately it is both easy and inexpensive to dehydrate sweet potatoes even without using a dehydrator.
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.
I have since bought a dehydrator so if you want more info on making them that way look here.
Layout on your dehydrator trays and dry for 3 12 hours.
Unfortunately for them most sweets are not good for them.
Excalibur s sweet potato recipe.
Dehydrated dog treats review.
Take 2 sweet potatoes or you could do just 1 or 7 or however many you like but i found that 1 sweet potato took up about 1.
Wash the sweet potato or yam the very orange type.
Scrub sweet potatoes or yams.
Come morning those sweet potato slices had turned into sweet potato jerky.
Slice the sweet potato into 1 4 slices you can also cut down the middle lengthwise and slice into 1 4 strips.
How to make dehydrated 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.
To make easy diy sweet potato dog chews.
Slice into 1 8 to 3 8 pieces.
Watching and waiting to see what was going on.
Then cut long lengthwise slices about 1 3 of an inch wide and place on a cookie sheet in a single layer.
Cut down the middle lengthwise.
No need to peel them your dog doesn t care so why waste the time trim off any green areas on the peel.
Making your own sweet potato dog treats in your oven is incredibly.
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.
They thicker your slices the longer they will take.
I typically dehydrate my sweet potato dog treats approximately 10 12 hours.
You may need to test a batch or two until you get the texture where you and your puppy dog like them.
Diy sweet potato dog chews.
Pots pans mixing bowls and cooking utensils stack up pretty fast when you are baking.
Dehydrated sweet potatoes can fill your dog s desire for sugary snacks while at the same time giving him something to chew on.
Dogs love sweet food.
How to make dehydrated sweet potato dog treats.