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Eggs

Posted : 6/7/2009 12:37:37 AM

sorry if this sounds like a stoopid question, but i've been meaning to ask this for a while..

how much egg is too much? lately(past two months) i've been giving the dogs a frozen bantam egg once or twice a day once with their meal (meat and bones) and as something fun to chew on. i havent seen any issues in their health at all but bantam eggs are pretty small.. like ping ball size, give or take.. and two bantam eggs almost equal one whole full size chicken egg.. and ONCE in a while the dogs will get a duck egg if i have a surplus . duck eggs are much larger than the jumbo chicken eggs you see in the grocery store. but like i said, thats only once in a while. i dont like to give the dogs the duck eggs because they are highly coveted by the people around here lol (maybe if i get more layers in the future the dogs could have their share of duck eggs)

I also heard somewhere - and i cant remember if i read it in an article or if it was in a forum- that you can feed a dog a diet of nothing but eggs and it will do no harm. which is why i ask my question.... i've always believed in "moderation in all things" and i just cant shake the feeling that "that cant be right", so i just gotta know! according to memory they said seven eggs make a meal for a medium/large dog.

one thing i used to do years ago was give my dogs a fried egg with their meal when i read that a raw egg is not the healthiest of things... still, the fried egg always did lovely things to their coats, but the ensuing gas attacks put a stop to it. at the time i was also feeding them pedigree kibble with the omega 3... so i dont know if it was the kibble or eggs because we changed kibble brands at the same time.

Well we dont have issues with gassy dogs.. but i am still curious about the best way to feed eggs. incidentally all my eggs are home grown.. so i have an endless supply of them - mostly bantams- and they are so small no one wants them except the dogs.

and if i'm doing something wrong dont be too harsh! just tell me and i'll stop it right this instant. its just that in my google searches the information contradicts itself!

brookcove

Posted : 6/7/2009 3:06:40 AM

I poach my eggs. It seems to be the best compromise between raw and cooked - I only "set" the white.

You could probably feed a couple bantam sized eggs a day. The only concern is that eggs are high in sulfur and sodium. High sodium can cause an imbalance in potassium but it takes a LOT. Ie, just don't go crazy. Wink

DumDog

Posted : 6/7/2009 3:29:09 PM

i poached the rest of my bantem eggs earlier this afternoon :D cant say i enjoy the smell left behind in the kitchen, but i dont want to take any chances. i also read somewhere that raw egg yolk has something in it that can cause a nutritional deficiency...

brookcove

Posted : 6/7/2009 10:23:01 PM

It's the white. Raw egg yolk is extremely good for them! Smile

Jordan S.

Posted : 6/14/2009 1:14:41 PM

If your going to feed raw egg everyday, remove the whites, If your going to feed the whole egg, shell,whites,and yolk, Give it twice a week.

brookcove

Posted : 6/14/2009 8:40:42 PM

If you cook the white, it's fine to feed as often as desired. Heat denatures the protein avidin which is the concern with raw whites - avidin binds biotin.

stanton

Posted : 6/14/2009 10:34:01 PM

I crack the eggs in a bowl, and scoop out the egg yolk for each dog every other day. I do not give them the entire egg raw.

If they do get the entire egg, it's generally scrambled for them once or twice a week.

DumDog

Posted : 6/27/2009 12:13:30 PM

Sorry i'm late getting back to this but thank you for all the advice :) since then the bantams and ducks have stopped laying... the ducks either have found a better hiding place for their eggs or they are on strike and not laying at all. i know for a fact the bantams are setting.

brookcove

Posted : 6/27/2009 7:45:14 PM

Our ducks stopped laying when it got hot too - but they started again when we put out high-mineral free-choice feed. It's something called a "flock block." i think what is happening is that they are laying around and not hunting enough to support egg laying. The sheep do the same thing if they don't have shady pasture, so I give them a bit of grain when it tops 100 here, too.