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A savory dinner-scented biscuit: finely shredded plain chicken and sweet corn kernels baked through a quinoa and egg dough.
Chicken is the protein dogs vote for with their feet, arriving in the kitchen before the tray is out. These biscuits shred plain cooked chicken fine and fold it through a quinoa dough with sweet corn kernels, so every biscuit carries chicken in every bite instead of in occasional lumps. They bake firm, travel well in a pocket, and smell like a roast dinner in miniature.
Two verdict conditions share the safety work here. Chicken follows our chicken verdict: plain, fully cooked, boneless and skinless, with cooked bones never anywhere near a dog. Corn follows its own verdict just as strictly: kernels only, cut off the cob or plain frozen, because a swallowed cob can block the intestine and need emergency surgery. The cob never reaches the counter in this recipe.
Storage: Refrigerate in an airtight container within 2 hours of baking and use within 3 to 4 days, or freeze for up to 2 months.
Every ingredient in this recipe was checked against our own food safety verdicts before it went in. If a food has no verdict page on this site, it does not go into a recipe here, however common it is in other people's treat recipes. The checks for this one:
Shred the chicken finer than your instincts suggest. Long strands bake into strings that pull a biscuit apart as a dog bites it, while fine shreds distribute and set. Leftover roast chicken is tempting and usually wrong for this recipe: it was seasoned for people, often with salt at minimum and sometimes with garlic or onion in the rub, and seasoned chicken sits outside the verdict entirely. Cook a plain breast or thigh portion for the dog's batch, or set the dog's portion aside before your own seasoning touches the pan.
These are protein treats, not vegetable nibbles, and they count accordingly. One biscuit is a real reward; a handful is a small meal that the day's food should know about.
| Dog size | Suggested serving |
|---|---|
| Toy, under 10 lb | Half a biscuit, broken up |
| Small, 10 to 25 lb | 1 biscuit a day |
| Medium, 25 to 50 lb | 1 to 2 biscuits a day |
| Large, 50 to 90 lb | 2 to 3 biscuits a day |
| Extra large, over 90 lb | Up to 3 biscuits a day, within the day's treat total |
Treats are treats. The American Kennel Club's guidance is that treats should make up no more than 10 percent of a dog's daily calories, counting every treat and snack in the day together, and that the treat calories sit inside the day's total rather than on top of it. The servings above are starting points for a healthy adult dog; puppies, seniors and dogs on a veterinary diet need their own veterinarian's steer, and a dog trying any ingredient for the first time should get a small piece first, with a day to watch for an upset stomach.
A meat biscuit follows the strictest reading of the FoodSafety.gov cold food storage chart in this tranche: cool the biscuits, refrigerate them within 2 hours of baking at 40F (4C) or below, and serve within 3 to 4 days. Poultry mixtures sit at the careful end of the chart, so this page plans on the shorter side for a batch that will be opened often. Freeze for up to 2 months in small bags, thaw in the fridge, and serve thawed biscuits the same day. Any biscuit with a sour smell is retired at once.
Only if the chicken was cooked plainly with no seasoning at all, which most roast chicken is not. Salt, rubs and stuffing flavors all take chicken outside the plain serving our verdict covers, and garlic or onion in a rub make it unsafe outright. Cook a plain portion for the dog's batch.
Yes. Our corn verdict calls a swallowed cob a blockage risk that can need emergency surgery, because cob does not digest and its size matches the intestine uncomfortably well. That is why this recipe uses loose kernels and sends any cob straight to a dog proof bin.
Boneless, skinless breast or thigh, cooked plainly. Thigh shreds a little richer and keeps biscuits moist; breast is leaner. Both sit inside the verdict as long as they are plain, cooked through, and checked for bone after shredding.
Only tinned kernels with no added salt, drained and rinsed, and frozen kernels are the better default because the salt question never arises. Sweetcorn in sauce or creamed corn is a seasoned product and sits outside the plain kernel verdict.
Shape pea to thumbnail sized mini biscuits and take 3 to 4 minutes off the bake, watching the first tray closely. Small biscuits from the same dough keep the chicken flavor at training scale; just count the pieces against the same daily serving.
This page is general information drawn from the published guidance of the organizations listed under Sources below. It is not veterinary advice, and it does not replace your own veterinarian, who knows your dog. If your dog has eaten something toxic, contact your veterinarian, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center on (888) 426-4435, or the Pet Poison Helpline on (855) 764-7661 straight away. A consultation fee may apply on the helplines.
Last updated: November 2026. Every ingredient in this recipe was checked against the verdict pages linked above. Storage times follow the FoodSafety.gov cold storage guidance listed under Sources. How we work: our methodology.
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