Understanding how Homemade Stew can Keep Your Dog Healthy

Understanding how Homemade Stew can Keep Your Dog Healthy
Hi! This is Elise McMahon for Expert Village and we are going to be talking in this video series 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. You will notice what kind of pot I am using here. It is a pressure cooker and we are going to cook this stew for hours and hours and hours under pressure. The vegetables that I am putting in here are going to be very, very soft and so in fact when you stir it around, they are going to break it up into small pieces. So the size you are cutting right now is not really that important. For efficiency sake, you can use bigger chunks. So for this stew I am going to use those three vegetables all mixed around in here. Okay. I have got carrots, zucchini and sweet potato. So what do we do next? Protein; we must put a protein source in here. So you have got our chicken and we are going to take our chicken. I have already removed the bags in the inside, very important. This bag was sticking out, you could see it. Most chickens, turkeys have something like that on the inside. Before you cook it, make sure that you pull it out, check on the insides, make sure there is nothing else in there. Alright. This might seem a little bit crazy, but what we are going to do here is we are just going to throw this whole entire chicken in here. So we have got our chicken, our vegetables and we fill the pot up with water. We are now going to put the top on it and we are going to put it on the stovetop to let it cook. One thing I want to mention is that the bones, some of you might be thinking of that these bones in the chicken we might have to go, pull that out and no. No actually, this is a great way to get some source of calcium. The bones when they are cooked in the pressure cooker actually become very very soft and I will show you that; become very, very soft and the dogs can eat it without a problem. So we are going to put this on a stove now and start it to cook. And so here we have got our stew and we have got the chicken, the vegetable, and the sweet potatoes. Remember we were talking about portion about size of cutting it when it is cooked like this, you actually can be smashing it up. So it is not really that important the size that you are cutting because it is all going to be smashed up anyway. If you have got a small breed dog you might want to just smash that up or let them take the chunks and bite it up themselves. You can leave the pieces of chicken large like this or you can break them up into pieces as well shredding them up. You can stir it all in to the broth. You can feed it with or without the broth.