Make Dehydrated Sweet Potato Dog Treats

Slice the sweet potato into 1 4 slices you can also cut down the middle lengthwise and slice into 1 4 strips.

Make dehydrated sweet potato dog treats.

Thoroughly wash and peel sweet potatoes. Cut down the middle lengthwise. Making your own sweet potato dog treats in your oven is incredibly. Dehydrated sweet potatoes can fill your dog s desire for sugary snacks while at the same time giving him something to chew on.

I typically dehydrate my sweet potato dog treats approximately 10 12 hours. To make easy diy sweet potato dog chews. I have since bought a dehydrator so if you want more info on making them that way look here. 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.

Dehydrated dog treats review. From the moment i started preparing the meat coco and joey never left my side. Unfortunately for them most sweets are not good for them. Scrub sweet potatoes or yams.

The smell of the liver and heart was driving them crazy. When baking dog biscuits for your fur family or cooking homemade dog food there is always a bit of mess. Fortunately it is both easy and inexpensive to dehydrate sweet potatoes even without using a dehydrator. They thicker your slices the longer they will take.

Layout on your dehydrator trays and dry for 3 12 hours. Then cut long lengthwise slices about 1 3 of an inch wide and place on a cookie sheet in a single layer. 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. How to make dehydrated dog treats.

I like to have them a bit soft when done because they will harden once cooled and refrigerated. Pots pans mixing bowls and cooking utensils stack up pretty fast when you are baking. No need to peel them your dog doesn t care so why waste the time trim off any green areas on the peel. 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.

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. The method i used to make dehydrated sweet potato dog treats was super easy and is done in the oven. Excalibur s sweet potato recipe. How to make dehydrated sweet potato dog treats.

Wash the sweet potato or yam the very orange type. Watching and waiting to see what was going on. You may need to test a batch or two until you get the texture where you and your puppy dog like them. Slice into 1 8 to 3 8 pieces.

They much preferred the meat treats than the sweet potato treats. Preheat oven to 250 f. Come morning those sweet potato slices had turned into sweet potato jerky.