Yes, usually boiled in hot water with no other flavoring for about 30 minutes. Yoda LOVES IT! It's good for their teeth and he loves to try to get the marrow inside the bone. You can leave a little bit of meat on it as well. Perhaps try a small portion at first for your Otis to see if he likes it.
Alternatively, you can cook hamcock in chicken broth (like Swanson's Chicken Broth) like normal. Then you can put the hamhock in cold water for 15 minutes or so, which cools down the hamhock and gets rid of the excess salt, as too much salt is bad for our Yorkies. Safest thing to do is definitely just boiling it in hot water. |