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02-23-2015, 09:31 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Southeastern, PA
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| Dried Sweet Potatoes - Anyone Experience This? I am new to making my own dog biscuits and treats. The cost of treats now-a-days are outrageous, especially dried chews and those that are all natural with no preservatives. I started out with buying a used cheap food dehydrator (no fan, just a heating element). It did it's job and I was pleased with the outcome of my dried sweet potatoes (skin on). I first fed JB two small 1 1/2' chips that were leathery. He loved them but noticed that in his stool, they were not digested. This made me think that all the good vitamins and health benefits did no good because they were never absorbed/digested. Now yesterday, I fed him 2 chips in the morning after he ate his kibble. Then I fed him his kibble for dinner. This morning almost 24hrs later he had diarrhea and threw up all the sweet potato. The kibble was digested but the sweet potato just sat in his stomach until he threw it up this morning. I decided to throw out the rest of the chips & I am now figuring out what I "CAN" make for him. Anyone experience this with sweet potato or any other dehydrated "treat" for our babies?
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02-23-2015, 10:07 AM | #2 |
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| I made them once in the oven, and my girls loved them. Sweet potato, just like pumpkin contains a lot of fiber, so that may be causing the gastro upset. As with different foods, I guess you have to introduce very slowly. My girls love small slices or cubes of steamed sweet potatoes, but I don't give them much because it does soften their stool. Same with green beans and other fruits and veggies.... good, but not too many. When they get diarrhea, I cook white rice very soft to add to their kibble and things firm up quickly.
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02-23-2015, 04:49 PM | #3 |
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| I make all my own treats with my dehydrator....but I do jerkey treats primarily....beef, chicken, fish, lamb, organ meats....I did sweet potato chips once and they werew not real enthused with them....and they LOVE boiled sweet potato, so I just cut up hunks (large diced) of sweet potato, boil them, and let them have them that way...they love them that way. |
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