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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

We used to call in the dogs if eggs were spilt on the
floor.  Eggs and especially cream were hard to clean
up dogs did it much more effectively than we could. 
Our dogs were so well trained to stay outside that we
had to drag them in to get them through the door.
We were very careful about giving dogs eggs in shells.
 Once they developed a taste they could become an "egg
sucker".  A neighbor had to have a dog put down for
that.
Van Dell  

--- Viking <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

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