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[Viking <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

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
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