Wanted to share this with everyone for a while!

[Andee]

So I have been working on making allergen safe (wheat gluten, protein, etc) treats of various kinds for dogs. I won't even touch the other foods/treats I make for my other animals XD. I started doing it for my dog (I now do it for some of my friends and family), because my dog Dewey started not only eating raw but in the beginning had severe allergies to corn, wheat gluten, and chicken, so it made trying to find him treats a headache. At the moment he can eat chicken safely again, but he shows much more interest in my homemade treats than any store bought kinds I have ever gotten. It started with cookies. Now I do jerky that can be fed as training treats, I also do jerky chews, I have also started to buy certain cuts to dehydrate such as trachea, gullet, and tendon.

Wanted to share today's project, bison trachea is pictured below, I will show a picture soon once it is done drying:

A lot of the extra fat had to be trimmed off and some of the excessive connective tissue, though I tried keep as much as possible for the health reasons they provide.

 

[Andee]

So here's the finished product, and of course a happy little Dewey man enjoying a smaller piece of trachea <3 love my boy.

 

[Virgil1972]

Where you get that?

 

[Andee]

Get which one? I got the raw bison trachea from a local supplier. The dehydrated one I made myself after butchering/cleaning and sectioning the raw one.

 

[Virgil1972]

How did you dry the trachea?

 

[Andee]

The trachea I do a very low temp in the oven and kind of "roast" dry it for 6 hours+ but only because it won't fit on my actual dehydrators tray. It's too... round? XD. Otherwise it's just bison trachea. Nothing special. My oven has the ability to go to 200 degrees so it's nice. I keep them in the refrigerator or freezer depending on how much I have. Freezer they are good for 6 months or more, refrigerator they are good for around 1 month with the way I keep them which is in ziplock bags and with a silica packet just to make sure everything stays super dry.

 

[Andee]

Today is another bison trachea day, finishing up the last of the dehydrating for that. I am also doing beef heart today. I still have sweet potatoes at the moment and zucchini. I also have round steak. In the freezer waiting to be dehydrated are emu tendons, emu cartilage, pig snouts, beef lung, pork tongue, and beef gullets XD

 

[Andee]

So did the emu tendons yesterday. I definitely have to update what it looks like before dried but they turned out great. I have 25 of them and more to go. I am also uploading a gullet project too.