Once again, I thought I’d share some of the ways that I’m trying to improve my dogs’ diets. This was a first for me but I’ve been wanting to trying making bone broth. It’s so good for the dogs and they absolutely love when I add it to their dinner!

Just grab your ingredients and throw them together in a pot. I used my Instant Pot and cooked the whole thing for about three hours. Start with some stew bones, knuckle bones, chicken feet or whatever you can find at your local butcher or store. I used a combination of recipes which called for 3-5 lbs of bones. I threw in chopped carrots, celery, ginger and some dried parsley I had from the garden. You’ll also want a bit of apple cider vinegar.

Once you’ve added all your ingredients and water (to cover it all, but make sure you don’t overfill the pot!) add 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar and set your timer for thirty minutes (we’re not cooking it yet). The apple cider vinegar is supposed to help draw the nutrients from the bones. Once its sat for thirty minutes then you can lock your Instant Pot lid down and starter the cooking process.

When everything is cooked, strain out the veggies and bones. I made sure to scrape out the marrow from the bones and add that to the broth. The big dogs were happy to eat the meat-flavored vegetables. But DO NOT feed the cooked bones to your dogs. Cooked bones can splitter and cause horrible intestinal damage to your dogs. (I’ll talk more about bones in another blog post.

Next I poured the beautiful, golden broth into canning jars, let it cool, added lids and put it in my refrigerator for the night. The next morning you can scrape the layer of fat that has hardened on top and throw it out. Your dog doesn’t need that it and it may upset their tummies.

Now you’ve made a good amount of bone broth for you pup! You can keep a little in the refrigerator to use in the next few days. Put the rest in small containers and stash in your freezer. Depending on the size of your dog, you can add a tablespoon or two (for small to average sized Cavapoos) or double that for dogs weighing over twenty and up to forty-ish pounds.

You can research for yourself online, if you’d like to learn more, but their are so many health benefits that your dog will enjoy because of this added goodness!

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