Make Homemade Baked Chicken Strips for Your Dog

Series Summary

Though there are numerous recommendations and suggestions concerning what sort of diet is best for dogs, it's certainly indisputable that every canine diet should be rich in protein, calcium and water. Pet owners have several choices when it comes to choosing a commercial dog food provider, and while many of the name brand foods, both dry and canned, claim to contain real meat and vegetables, some veterinarians and pet owners worry that the additives combined with poor-quality meat in commercial food isn't adequate for proper canine nutrition. For these reasons, many pet owners have investigated ways to supplement their pet's nutrition on their own at home, making meals for their dogs themselves using raw meats and vegetables, eggs, cheeses and a variety of homemade treats. Some pet owners choose to give their dogs a strictly vegetarian diet, steaming vegetables and cooking eggs for their pets daily.

In this free video clip series, our expert will discuss the advantages of preparing dog food at home, as well as demonstrate the process for creating a variety of meals and treats for your pet with meat, fruits, vegetables and supplements. Omelets, stews, strips, and individual training treats will be prepared and explained for you. Learn how to chop and grind the food you will use for each recipe, as well as the actual steps you will take to provide your canine with all the benefits of a nutrient-rich homemade diet.

This series is an Equilibrio Films production.

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Elise McMahon for Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about how to make your own dog food. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at canineheadstart.com. So in this short clip, we are going to be talking about how to make your own chicken strips. I am starting off here with a piece of chicken breast. This is the piece of chicken breast that I have actually already fried up, so you can just fry up a piece of chicken breast in your frying pan and just to let you know that there are some places that you can actually get bulk orders of things like chicken breast so you could get 40 lbs. of it and you will be spending a low less money than if you just go to the supermarket and buy it the way you would buy it for say a small family. So you can look into that, but we are going to be using chicken breast here. What I am going to do is I am going to cut off thin slices and it has already been cooked, which makes it easier for me to cut and I am cutting off very thin slices of the chicken breast. Lot of times people go to the store and buy chicken breast jerky. What we are doing here is showing how you can make it yourself although chicken breasts might be somewhat expensive. It is certainly cheaper to buy the chicken breast yourself and make the jerky yourself. What you can do with this once we have got it made, is you can use it as a treat training treat, as a chew treat or cut up into small pieces and sprinkle it on the dog’s food. So what I am doing now is I am laying the chicken breast out on a small pan. I am laying it flat, it is fairly dry already as you can see and lay the pieces very flat like this. Those extra bits we don’t have to do anything with and then what I am going to do is I am going to put this in the toaster oven. I am going to cook it at a very low heat at about a 150 for about 20 minutes. If you cook it on too high a heat, you are basically just going to be burning the chicken; remember it is cut very thin, so it does not take a lot to cook it. What we are trying to do is to dry it out. So we are going to put it on a very low heat at about 150 and we are going to cook it for about 30 minutes and you can see we have got the thin slices. They are nice and crispy and once they have cooled, they are a little bit warm right now. Once they are cooled, we can use these as a treats or chews for the dog. "