Make Dehydrated Sweet Potato Dog Treats

Scrub sweet potatoes or yams.

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

To make easy diy sweet potato dog chews. Fortunately it is both easy and inexpensive to dehydrate sweet potatoes even without using a dehydrator. 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. Diy sweet potato dog chews.

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. Dehydrated sweet potatoes can fill your dog s desire for sugary snacks while at the same time giving him something to chew on. Excalibur s sweet potato recipe. Making your own sweet potato dog treats in your oven is incredibly.

Then cut long lengthwise slices about 1 3 of an inch wide and place on a cookie sheet in a single layer. Pots pans mixing bowls and cooking utensils stack up pretty fast when you are baking. Layout on your dehydrator trays and dry for 3 12 hours. When baking dog biscuits for your fur family or cooking homemade dog food there is always a bit of mess.

They thicker your slices the longer they will take. 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. Dogs love sweet food. The smell of the liver and heart was driving them crazy.

I typically dehydrate my sweet potato dog treats approximately 10 12 hours. Dehydrated dog treats review. How to make dehydrated dog treats. 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.

The method i used to make dehydrated sweet potato dog treats was super easy and is done in the oven. Instead i bought one sweet potato and some chicken and parsley to make dehydrated dog treats for my other dogs. Preheat oven to 250 f. They much preferred the meat treats than the sweet potato treats.

Thoroughly wash and peel sweet potatoes. No need to peel them your dog doesn t care so why waste the time trim off any green areas on the peel. Cut down the middle lengthwise. Come morning those sweet potato slices had turned into sweet potato jerky.

How to make dehydrated sweet potato dog treats. From the moment i started preparing the meat coco and joey never left my side. Watching and waiting to see what was going on.