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We crumble up the shells and feed them back to the chickens as a source of
minerals they need to build the shells for the new eggs. That and oysters
shells as well as sand for roughage.

We don't feed the shell to the dogs or cat and don't want to encourage them
to think eggs "in the wild" are fair game for them to eat.

>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