How Much Egg Should I Feed?

My vet has always said that raw eggs are a not at all good for dogs. I don't know all the terms but something in the raw egg stops the dog from absorbing protine and the dog develops a protean defencienty.

I just don't feed my dog raw anything because she's so sensitive to everything anyway.

This got me started - here's an excellent overview of the nitty gritty mechanics of the avidin-binding process.  www.biochemj.org/bj/157/0395/1570395.pdf

Did you know there's avidin in the yolk, too?  But it is inactive once the egg is laid - it is a temperature-related process.  I wonder whether there is some similiar way that dogs can unbind avidin-bound biotin.  Or perhaps we're all just whistling down the wrong road and dogs get some other benefit from eggs that has nothing to do with biotin.

Biotin is Vitamin B-7 by the way.

Or perhaps we're all just whistling down the wrong road and dogs get some other benefit from eggs that has nothing to do with biotin.

I always felt that I was adding protein to my dogs food by adding eggs, I give her meat mixed with veggies atop her kibble at dinner and raw egg for breakfast.
 
So is the general concensus (sp) that its better to give only the yolk most of the time, and a whole less often?
 
For me because I feed her an egg everyday, I won't take a chance. I will cook the whites for her except for maybe about once a week. I keep little yogurt containers handy and I cook about 5 or 6 saved  egg whites (from breakfast)  at a time and seperate them in the containers and just give her one a day.  Its easy and I can be sure. Well, at least I HOPE I can be sure!  lol!    But we must be careful because I just read on the Mercola website (again this is for humans) that pregnant women should not eat raw egg white as it can cause a biotin defienciency.....and that was in the article when he WAS recommending eating WHOLE raw eggs...so if we have a pregnant dog we might want to be careful about that for them especially.

Okay, thanks.  But now theres also speculation that the yolks might not be all that great either?  Im trying to keep up but its hard lol.

I have a question....
Do you mix it in with their kibble, or do you just give it on its own?

After reading this, I tried to feed Daisy and Duke some egg, but they don't seem interested (I mixed it in with their kibble).

Daisy is a doll!
 
But to the egg question,,,I just break an egg over Bubbys kibble,and don't mix it in at all...she goes for it first in her bowl.

Thank you, for both answering my egg question and for the comment on Daisy. Whenever anyone says something like that, I get so proud (like I made her or something, HA!)