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Post by zoologist on Aug 20, 2010 13:12:51 GMT -5
Has anyone tried this? It may be my next adventure....
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Post by Heather on Aug 20, 2010 13:58:09 GMT -5
I've tried it with liver and hearts...for the dog. The ferrets liked it too. I tried both the freeze dried and using a dehydrator. The freeze dried was only moderately successful. The dehydrator worked much better.
ciao
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Post by rarnold18 on Aug 22, 2010 12:28:32 GMT -5
My dogs and ferrets love this!!! Kathy dehydrates chicken feet as treats for her dogs and has done just about everything else chicken hearts and gizzards... I forget what else. She has a multi layered electric dehydrator.
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Post by Heather on Aug 22, 2010 12:39:03 GMT -5
That's what I use too. I love the thing. A friend picked it up for me at a garage sale for about $10. It was the best ten I've ever spent  ciao |
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Post by rarnold18 on Aug 22, 2010 17:14:34 GMT -5
Goodwill and Salvation Army are great places to find them too!
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Post by katt on Aug 23, 2010 3:37:57 GMT -5
Dehydrators are great you can make dehydrated fruit and beef jerky! Yum!  I tried oven dehydrated chicken. Koda looked at me like I was crazy when I tried to feed them to him. I tried everything to get him to eat them, but they were not touched. lol Wasted a whole batch of chicken. |
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Post by bigsis7 on Aug 23, 2010 11:45:18 GMT -5
I love dehydrators! It's a great way to make snacks for humans, dogs, ferrets, rabbits, rats, etc. Basically any pet cause you can dehydrate fruit and meat. My dad used to use any kind of ground meat, rolled it up, and dehydrated it. Very good investment
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Post by zoologist on Aug 24, 2010 14:46:54 GMT -5
hmmm, Rose do you think she'd be willing to dehydrate the ground mixes I get from her for me??
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Post by rarnold18 on Aug 25, 2010 23:32:23 GMT -5
You'd have to ask her, I really don't know! I do know that she is now working a full time office job on top of Raw4Pets...but the dehydrator doesn't require all that much attention...I'd ask her, the worst she can say is no
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Post by zoologist on Aug 27, 2010 0:49:07 GMT -5
would it make it less smelly?
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Post by rarnold18 on Aug 27, 2010 2:51:45 GMT -5
maybe, I'll ask her tomorrow night (Friday night), I'll be going over there to help finish processing this weekends orders for the Tampa area. I would think so though... I only assume so because chicken going bad smells bad, but once it's dried out it doesn't have a smell or at least not nearly as bad as a two day old chicken back... I was wondering why Jezzebelle kept trying to get under the couch....ugh!
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Post by sherrylynne on Aug 27, 2010 16:47:50 GMT -5
Gotta love those secret stashes  |
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Post by rarnold18 on Aug 27, 2010 19:52:10 GMT -5
Gotta love those secret stashes :PI know right!?!?!?!? |
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Post by rarnold18 on Aug 28, 2010 1:14:25 GMT -5
I talked to Momma...and dehydrating the ground mixes that have bone in them is probably not a good idea, because it drys out the bone and egg shells in the mixes and those dry/cooked can cause blockages or splinter and puncture an internal organ, which would be horrible!!! Dehydrating uses low heat to get the moisture out essentially slow cooking the meat until it's jerky...if it's just meat thats fine but cooking bone or eggshell is no good for any of our furbabies, ferret, cat, or dog.
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Post by zoologist on Aug 28, 2010 1:19:43 GMT -5
That's a good point, rose. i completely forgot about the splintering of the bone :/ i'm going to have to figure out another way then because the pork/rabbit is stinking up the house pretty badly! I'll have to talk to Kathy and see what she recommends, but thanks for talking to her!
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