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  • From: Viking <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Questions for Lynn and others re chickens
  • Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:59:42 -0400



clhw wrote:

We feed any eggs getting too old to our critters -- dog, cat and chickens.
We usually scramble them first, but recently, on another homesteaders list,
I was told by a vet that dogs and cats do not need to have the eggs cooked.
The original thought was that raw eggs would bind up biotin, but this vet
said it would take an enormous amount of eggs to do that and that if the
entire egg, instead of just the white, is fed, there are balances in the
raw egg to offset each other, making this a non-issue.


I feed an egg a day to each of the dogs when I have a glut of them, too. They also get any they find in the yard, or any that getting cracked or dropped. I've noticed that my dogs eat the shell and all when they find an egg in the yard. When I feed them eggs, however, I don't give them the shell. Does anyone feed the shell to their dogs?
When I have baby chicks, I will often cook/dry the shells on the woodstove, crumble them, and feed them back to the chicks, but now I am wondering if some of the shells should go to the dogs instead of the compost.

Bev
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erthnsky AT bellsouth.net BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
34.498N 85.076W





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