feeding eggs

 I feed Lillie raw egg. One a day. A large one at that. But you have little dogs so I dont know how you much you would want to feed them. And I just put it with her kibble.

One or two a week is plenty for a little dog.  If you smoosh up or grind the shell and include it, you don't have to worry about unbalancing the food.  Just cook the white mostly.  I do this by cracking the egg in a bowl (don't beat), and then sliding it into about an inch of boiling water in a little pan.  Turn off the heat and let it sit until the white turns opaque.  Then let the water cool and put the whole thing in your dogs' food!  Slurpy-good fun.  If you decide to sprinkle the egg shell on do it then.  If you only feed an egg a week to a ten-pound dog then don't even worry about teh shell.

I do it this way because there's a bunch of a substance called avidin in the white, which binds up not only the small amount of biotin in the yolk, but also reserves in the body.  Cooking disables the avidin, but if the yolk remains runny the biotin in it will stay available.

You can also cook it all the way through, any way you want.  Biotin is the only real advantage (currently known) between cooked and raw eggs.  Hard boiled eggs are a fun treat to take on the road - just stick them in a baggie in the cooler. 

My dogs like eggs any way they can get them, but loooove fried eggs sunny side up. I limit to two per week due to phosphorus.

I make omelets almost every weekend and for every 2 whole eggs I use, I use one egg white only, so I always have a couple of yolks left over. I just put them in little cups and stick them in the frig. In the mornings, I plop the yolk on the kibble and it's gobbled up.

I normally just put a whole raw egg in their kibble egg shells and all, but sometimes I make them omelets or scrambled eggs but more often than not just a whole raw egg. Mix it around really well I was told by a german shepherd breeder friend of mine to put the shells in as well, to be honest not totally sure why but it doesn't do any harm & his dogs look fantastic and mine are in good condition too even my hard doer is starting to look good.

Shells balance the phosphorus in the egg.  An egg is almost a perfect little meal, really, it's kind of cool.  Too bad they are so expensive.  And for Ben, too bad they are - uh - eggs.  If the thought of little bits of eggshell makes you all creeped out inside, you can save them, bake them at low heat to dry them out, then run them through the food processor until you have sort of a meal.  Put it in a baggy and stick it in the freezer.  Voila!  If you feed meat, you can add 1/4 tsp of this per pound to balance the calcium and phosphorus (it adds calcium).  For the eggs, on egg is just a teeny pinch of the powdered shell (amazing how a whole shell grinds down to nothing).

You don't have to do that - I do because it is a good resource - if I'm doing a recipe it's there.  The incredible edible egg!

 

brookcove

Shells balance the phosphorus in the egg.  

 

haha thanks for that, guess I could of questioned more when he told me but that is great information to know

 I just hand the entire egg to my dogs, shell and all. Then they run off to their spot in the yard and eat them up.

I used to just feed the whole raw egg to Salem, shell and all. Problem was he would leave the shell in the yard. He didn't like it. So I started cracking it over his food. No problems until Cheza came along. I tried this with her, and about five minutes later she was puking frothy white stuff all over the place. Rushed her to the vet, and she said not to feed the white unless it is cooked.

So long story short, both dogs now either get an egg yolk, or a whole hard boiled egg. Turns out Salem likes the shell if it is hard boiled. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs too.

 I suddenly have this craving for hard boiled eggs . . . :P

 I freeze them, shell and all, in the carton.  Then I hand them to the dogs and they case them around the kennel trying to break them...actually, they don't really anymore, but they did the first couple times.  Now they are pretty efficient, and not nearly as entertaining.

 I feed whole raw eggs + ground shells that I grind with the coffee grinder.

Question:  Is the phosphorous in the white or the yolk?

I never bother with the shell, but maybe I should start.  I mostly only feed raw yolks, one every couple days, and occasionally I'll add the cooked whites when I'm not feeling too lazy (I know, they're easy to cook! ).  I also do the frozen egg thing once in a while just for something different.