Raw Eggs Revisited

Yeah i throw raw eggs into smoothies almost every morning for myself.  Why raw? because its just faster and you can't even taste it when its mixed in with everything.  I grew up on an egg farm and my dog used to eat raw eggs that were dropped on the floor every chance she got, she never had any health problems related to this, and neither have our other dogs on that farm (they didn't eat excessive amounts, probably like one or two a week that they got to fast enough.  Most kitchens are contaminated with all kinds of bacteria like salmonella and i think your dog or family has just as much a chance of catching it off of a food work surface as from a raw egg.

When we were kids my Mom use to make us a drink she called an egg flip.  She would really beat up and egg and add milk and little sugar and a little vanilla and we loved them.    I also use to eat my eggs fried over easy and dip toast in the yolk.  Now the thought of either turns my stomach and i have no idea why.   I will only eat scrabmled eggs and they have to be DRY, the least moist and i won't eat them and a rarely eat them at all.  Funny how tastes change   And here again, because I won't drink-eat raw eggs, i won't feed them to me dogs either.  Will boil or scramble eggs for them but that is it.

Raw eggs - how do you feed them?

Welcome back skyehi!! To answer your question, I feed eggs raw, shell and all. I feed them this way not only to my raw fed dog, but also to my kibble fed dogs. I typically try to pick up my eggs at a local co-op from a free range farmer - when I can.

Eating a raw egg myself still disgusts me BUT I still order "over easy" for breakfast when I am out. Occasionally they make it TOO over easy,,,,and I do'nt like it,, but I can't stand the taste of an egg done any other way. I do occasionally like a scrambled,,but it must have soo much butter in it that there is too many calories!!  LOL! And all that butter can't be too good for you!

but it must have soo much butter in it that there is too many calories!! LOL! And all that butter can't be too good for you!

Whatever do you mean? Pass the butter dish baby! []

My grandma ate two eggs friend in butter every morning and when she went into the nursing home when her eyes got bad & uncle didnt trust her living alone, they told her it was bad for her and she coudln't have fried eggs.  She blew a gasket and told them she had been eggs fried in butter for 96 years (not quite accurate as she was 96 at the time) and they finally relented and started giving her eggs fried in butter  She died 4 months before her 100th brithday.

What is wrong with cooking them first?

It kills the B vitamins and Omega 3's. I don't feed eggs JUST for the protein. We have some nasty skin and coat issues, here, and I *want* those B vitamins and Omegas. Of course,  I could just add them back in after I've cooked the eggs, but.... is that any better than kibble? Probably, but it's still kind of artificial.

I do lightly cook the whites, to kill the avadin, or whatever you call it. I want mine to get ALL of the biotin from the yolks.

My grandma ate two eggs friend in butter every morning

Quote by Sandra Slayton...did your grandma make friends with the eggs or was she eating her friend in butter every morning...[] Sandra, I don't understand what your point is? every person has a certain genetic longtivety...the point is we don't know what each persons trigger point is.  My Grandfather as well used to eat fried eggs, poached etc and a huge breakfast...but, also back in those days people were working and active...not sitting behind computers or working in offices.  My Grandfather lived to be in his early hundreds as well...he lived a long healthy active life working on a farm with fresh air, no pollution, clean water, no pesticides, no chemicals, and his food wasn't pumped full of antibiotics and other unnatural things and the animals were not fed the horrible stuff livestock is fed today.  Our bodies this day and age have a heck of a lot more to deal with.
 
Every person has a trigger food that may cause health problems.  I could come back at you and say that I know tons of older people in their late 90's and early 100's that smoked and drank every day...well, it didn't hurt them...so heck, smoking ciggies and drinking booze must be alright for everyone...right?  not.  If a person can live as healthy as possible they may be healthier and if they have a long life span they could live longer with less health problems.       
 
Eggs are good for you, the frying process is not good for a person.  The extreme heat depletes the nutrients and disturbs the sensitive oils contained in foods.  Frying creates abundant free radicals.  Burning fried foods a little bit is carcinogenic.  For eggs they are extremely healthy when cooked properly. 

Thanks so much for all of your information - on both 'sides' of the issue.  Lots to mull over and learn.  I appreciate the input.  [sm=wink.gif]

Sandra, I don't understand what your point is? every person has a certain genetic longtivety...the point is we don't know what each persons

 
This was just a reply to a couple of earlier posts about butter, nothing more nothing less.  Not advocating everyone eat two eggs fried in butter every morning to make them live longer. I personally don't think it would.  Maybe she would have lived to have been 120 had she not eaten eggs fried in butter, drank whole cows milk full for cream (right from the cow) most of her life, seasoned things with bacon drippings, etc.  Then again, she may have died at 80 had she not eaten like that, who knows.  

Geez Sandra,,,do you ever get the feeling that somedays you can't win for loosing?  The days when you try to be nice and answer a post but someone is there picking apart your every word?
 
Well thanks for telling me about your grandmother eating eggs in butter (since it was me you were probably answering)   Its good to know that when I order scrambled eggs in lots of butter,,,that others do it also, and live to tell about it!

Sometimes, it's beyond my choice. Lately, I've found a bird carcass in the backyard. And yesterday, I found half of a little egg shell. Shadow may be having a raw fiesta when I am at work. Either that or the neighbor's cats, who do come into our yard, are doing their thing.
 

Our cat Pippi, bless her heart, that died last spring at age 17, often left her "kill" on the front porch in front of the door.  nothing like opening the door and finding a dead bird, lizard, snake, etc laying there.  I have no idea if she ever ate any of her 'kills' or not, but she sure liked  to leave presents for us.

Lately, I've found a bird carcass in the backyard. And yesterday, I found half of a little egg shell.

I keep finding TINY little not-ready-to-leave-the-egg bird carcasses. I find them because my dogs find them... and roll on them. Blech. Its always something!

I've given Bailey a raw egg three times. At the time, I was feeding totaly raw, so he ate the egg with a chicken wing and gizzard or whatever. Two times out of three he threw up within 15 minutes. To me that is a pattern. Other that those two times he has never vomited.

I now feed EVO and raw pork neck bones and beef spare ribs about three or four times a week, but no more raw eggs.

I have given him cooked eggs with no problems.