I'm looking for some dog biscuit recipes if any one is willing to share theirs. I made some from a recipe I found on the Internet and my dogs love them. I'd like to get a few together.

I think that to many people, "biscuit" often means "flour-based."

Do you just mean dog treats? Ways to turn meat into easily transported and easily-worked-with food rewards?


Someone I know makes little meatballs for this purpose, with no wheat, no flour of any kind.

As I recall, the "glue" added to the ground meat is egg and grated cheese and I think a bit of cooked quinoa. This is a pretty good way to turn meat into an easily transported reward. It doesn't turn it into a biscuit, if biscuit means shelf-stable (but it's pretty hard to turn appropriate ingredients for dogs into shelf-stable treats without jerkying it).

The dogs love it. I could get that for you if you want it.

And jerkying is a good way to turn meat into a much more transportable reward. I sometimes do it in the microwave, making both crisp and flexible turkey-breast strips and bits (for marker rewards and for FST). (And if you freeze the results, it doesn't even matter if the results are unevenly-heated because the freezer will keep the results from rotting.)

Any treat recipe would be great. The ones I made were gluten free with peanut butter. Real easy and they baked hard. I've also seen a recipe for liver that looked good for a high value treat. I go through so many treats I was just looking for something I could make at home. I tried the boiled chicken, but that gets messy when I'm trying to train. The dogs love it, but I hate putting it in my treat bag. I think I get several bags of sweet potato/fish or duck biscuits and soft treats from Amazon about every other week. I'm always cautious of the ingredients. I've even tried the Leerburg ones, but my little pig inhales those and choaks. The dogs get the soft ones for training and the biscuits for going in their kennel or just following me around the house. It's a fun game we play. I have a plastic cookie jar with a lid full of them and Shiloh knows where it is and goes and looks at it all the time. Then I ask, "well, what are you going to show me" and we work through a couple commands.
I would appreciate any quick, easy and health alternative any one has.

Peanut butter sounds like an excellent glue!

I would avoid any kind of cereal flour, if possible.

You might like to experiment with the microwave white poultry jerky for a much less messy bait bag item than regular boiled chicken; I use breast because the lack of fat makes for an almost grease-free product for the bait bag. (There are instructions here; I would try microwave as my forum search term and go back maybe 4-5 years.)

I'll get the meatball instructions. (They are called Pug Balls in this neck of the woods because the recipe was invented by a friend who is a Pug person. )

I ran across some interesting sites when I Googled grain-free dog biscuit recipes just now, too.


I also use a lot of these. These are usually the bulk of my bait bag:

http://leerburg.com/flix/videodesc.php?id=2

http://leerburg.com/flix/videodesc.php?id=11

You can get hot dogs (I use kosher ones -- not so much 'bad stuff' in them), cut into slices, half or quarter the slices and cook in the microwave until as dry/hard as you want them. Layer bits between paper towels to absorb grease.

The Leerburg soft training treats are the ones my Shiloh chokes on because she inhales them but my Jack Russell and Shih Tzu love them and are perfect for them. We just finished 3 pounds of them.
What do you mean by by turning chicken into jerky in the microwave? That sounds interesting. I would love to try that.
I have some soy flour I thought I'd try (I can't eat wheat, so I figured I would just use the same on them). I'd love the meat ball recipe. I will also google the grain-free biscuits too.
I'm going to go get some liver and try that recipe as well. My dogs are so food driven, I think I could give them Cheerios and be fine. Shiloh has distorted all but one of my oven mitts. As soon as I turn my back she sneaks off with them and chews off the thumb. I guess I'm going to have to remember to put them in the drawer. She barks at me the whole time I'm preparing her Honest Kitchen. She is so spoiled!

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You can get hot dogs (I use kosher ones -- not so much 'bad stuff' in them), cut into slices, half or quarter the slices and cook in the microwave until as dry/hard as you want them. Layer bits between paper towels to absorb grease.

The folks in our club who spit training treats use those! Also the frozen no nitrite/no-nitrite ones, and the Smart Chicken dogs.

Great! I will do that. Thanks. Does it work the same with chicken and turkey?
Thanks

... What do you mean by by turning chicken into jerky in the microwave? That sounds interesting. I would love to try that. ...


http://leerburg.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=12&Number=195853&Searchpage=1&Main=19509&Words=microwave&topic=0&Search=true#Post195853
(There are a couple of ideas in that thread ... the 2nd one has too much eggshell {calcium}; about one of the shells would cover the calcium needed for that amount of boneless meat and egg, and I would skip the fish oil and the C because of the heat that would affect them. It would affect the probiotics, too, but you'll see the probiotics powder is added after cooling. Notice how she uses THK and egg as "glue"? )

http://leerburg.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=12&Number=170406&Searchpage=1&Main=17494&Words=microwave&topic=0&Search=true#Post170406

http://leerburg.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=134&Number=182678&Searchpage=1&Main=18415&Words=microwave&topic=0&Search=true#Post182678

http://leerburg.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=12&Number=174948&Searchpage=1&Main=17819&Words=microwave&topic=0&Search=true#Post174905

I'm not sure what the microwave chicken jerky recipe is (I'll have to look that up myself), but I too got tired of the mess that boiled or baked chicken breasts would leave in my bait bag. Here is what I've been doing that seems to work pretty good:

I start with what they call chicken breast tenderloins, which are just skinny strips of the inner part of the chicken breast, I put them in a glass baking dish sprayed with Pam, and let them cook at low temp (200-250 maybe) until they are very well-done. I couldn't give you a time; I just keep checking them until they get to the very firm and dried-out consistency I want.

I then cut them into bite-sized pieces (kitchen scissors work great) and find them to be much less messy than other kinds of chicken. Plus, I don't mind having them in my mouth when I'm training!

eta: Connie and I were typing at the same time. Thanks for the links!