How long to boil ground chicken for dog

Making your dog's food at home ensures that you control the freshness and quality of ingredients, and it allows you to fine-dial a diet that suits your dog's digestive system. For dogs with sensitive stomachs, ground chicken is mild on the tummy and tasty on the tongue. Once you've cooked and drained the meat, it's a versatile base easily mixed with brown rice, oats and vegetables for nutritious and yummy homemade dog meals.

Step 1

Crumble the ground chicken into the cooking pot.

Step 2

Pour the water into the pot over the chicken. Stir with the spoon to mix.

Step 3

Place the pot on the stove and turn the heat to high.

Step 4

Bring the chicken and water to a boil before turning the heat down to low.

Step 5

Simmer the chicken in the water for 20 minutes before removing from the heat.

Step 6

Empty the pot into the colander over the sink, or into a container if you want the chicken broth, to drain the water from the chicken.

Step 7

Allow the chicken to cool completely before mixing it with other ingredients or feeding to your dog.

Tips

• You can jazz things up a bit by adding a sprig of fresh rosemary, or 1 teaspoon of dried rosemary, to the water and chicken before cooking.

• Mixing the cooked chicken with 1 cup of cottage cheese will help calm an upset dog tummy.

• Use low-sodium chicken broth in place of all or part of the water to cook the chicken in for an added kick of chicken flavor.

Items You Will Need

• 1 pound ground chicken
• 6 cups water
• Large cooking pot
• Large spoon
• Colander

References

Tips

• You can jazz things up a bit by adding a sprig of fresh rosemary, or 1 teaspoon of dried rosemary, to the water and chicken before cooking.
• Mixing the cooked chicken with 1 cup of cottage cheese will help calm an upset dog tummy.
• Use low-sodium chicken broth in place of all or part of the water to cook the chicken in for an added kick of chicken flavor.

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Elle Di Jensen has been a writer and editor since 1990. She began working in the fitness industry in 1987, and her experience includes editing and publishing a workout manual. She has an extended family of pets, including special needs animals. Jensen attended Idaho and Boise State Universities. Her work has appeared in various print and online publications.

A number of things can cause diarrhea and vomiting in dogs. It could something he ate, or a virus or bacterial infection. Any time your dog has digestive problems, you should check with your veterinarian first. Most vets will suggest that you begin feeding your Sammy a bland diet. Ground chicken is an inexpensive and low fat protein that is the foundation of a bland diet.

Basic Recipe

The basic recipe for a bland dog diet is mixing 50 percent boiled ground chicken with 50 percent cooked white rice. You can brown the ground chicken in a frying pan instead of boiling it, but put the chicken in a wire strainer and rinse the fat off before adding it to the cooked white rice. Do not season the rice or chicken with anything, risking upsetting your dog’s digestive system even more.

Variations

One to 2 teaspoons of plain yogurt added to the basic recipe will help restore good bacteria to your dog’s gut. Or add 2 tablespoons of pure pumpkin – not pie mix. Pumpkin calms the upset stomach and helps with diarrhea. Other options include reducing the ground chicken to one-third and increasing the cooked white rice to two-thirds. Next add 1 to 2 teaspoons of plain yogurt and 1 to 2 teaspoons of mashed boiled sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes combat diarrhea just like pumpkin does. If your dog needs more protein, another variation is mixing one pound browned and rinsed ground chicken with two scrambled eggs and 1 cup of cooked rice.

Soup

Sometimes Sammy needs a bland diet but with more liquid. Chicken soup soothes dogs’ digestive upsets just like it does for humans. Brown and rinse one pound of ground chicken. Add one large scrubbed and chopped carrot, and one large peeled and diced potato. Add only enough water to cover the ingredients. Cook the soup on the stove for two hours or put it in a slow cooker for six hours. When the soup is done, leave it as it is or mash it with a potato masher for a finer consistency. So you don’t burn Sammy’s mouth, allow the soup to cool completely before feeding.

Feeding Instructions

Dr. Jon Rappaport recommends gradually refeeding to give your dog’s system time to heal. Don’t let him drink or eat anything for a couple of hours after the last episode of vomiting or diarrhea. Offer him small drinks of water over two or three hours. Then you can give a tablespoon of ground chicken soup or a small-meatball-size portion of one of the chicken and rice recipes. Sammy can have another tablespoon or meatball in two hours. If he does well with that, you can slowly increase the amount you offer and decrease the time in between servings. Once Sammy can tolerate a half cup to a full cup of bland diet every three to four hours, maintain feeding this way for a day or two. When you feel he is ready to return to his regular diet, reintroduce his dog food by adding small quantities of dog food to the bland diet. Increase the amount of dog food while reducing the ground chicken and rice diet over a period of several days. Otherwise you risk triggering another digestive upset.

References

Writer Bio

Based in Las Vegas, Sandy Vigil has been a writer and educator since 1980. She taught high school and middle school English and drama for 11 years. Vigil holds a Master of Science in teaching from Nova Southeastern University and a Bachelor of Arts in secondary English education from the University of Central Oklahoma.

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