Feeding Chicken Eggs ???

[S.R.Patch]

Fresh eggs straight from the nesting box are about as natural of a food as it gets, I will keep feeding them.

EGG SUCKERS, bout cost me my dogs when I was a boy.

They never liked the shells, but crack'n a egg over a handful of rendered pork cracklins sure kept them fat and slick...

[New York Hillbilly]

I had a dog once that kept biting me so I fed it a lead pill. It stopped biting me! Guess you can cure most anything by changing their diet,
NYH

[jmoore2094]

my dad boils them just for a few minutes. he read in a book that it does something to the egg but i cant remember what he said about it. i just know he boils them. you couls email him if you have more questions. he knows more than i do. jmoore2974@yahoo.com

[bucks better beagles]

For all you raw meat feeders, question: One of the toughest problems I have with puppies and for that matter, older dogs, is to keep them from eating carrion, fecal matter any other tossed out meat in the field. Since your dogs are trained from birth to eat raw products, how do you deal with this? The best trainers I have known always said to feed only dry food and never allow the dog to eat sh-t while in the field. There are any number of diseases and worms that can be had by dogs eating this type of thing in the wild.

[klrconcrete]

I dont have a dog in my kennel that eats s--t, havent had one in a long time I honestly cant remember the last one. I dont know why dogs are the way they are, I swear if there is a pile where someone has s--t within a mile of where I want to run it is just about a guarantee that at least one of them are going to roll in it. I honestly dont remember the last time that I had a dog get in to or eat off a carcass in the field, all this and my dogs are fed raw meat daily. I compare what you explained to the way of thinking that if you feed a dog venison it would chase deer. I cant verify that either way, but that way of thinking seems real narrow minded to me. Not trying to be insulting just the way I see it. I for one will take my chances with a dog eating some road kill and stick with a better daily menu, could be that dogs prefer the taste of rotten meat or s--t to dry kibble. I could see that. Kurt

[Alabama John]

Our dogs eat rabbits all year as they catch them. Just wound one and let them get to it before you do. We too have free ranging Banty chickens and all eggs that we don't eat or the neighbors, we give to the dogs. Never had a problem.

By the way, the free range eggs are great tasting and dark yellow when cooked. Got a hen start setting today. 21 days to go!!

[bucks better beagles]

Sorry Kurt, not meant to be 'Narrow minded". Just curious. Your dogs never roll in or eat awful stuff in the field? Is that training or just breeding? Again, not trying to be insulting. I can't remember ever seeing a dog that wouldn't do one or the other or both. Having used the raw meat diet before and seen this quality amplified, I am just wondering about it.

[klrconcrete]

I think I said that mine (at least a couple of them) will roll in s--t, matter of fact they will go out of their way to find it. I have never caught one or found evidence of one of them eating off something in the field. May have had some long ago but they arent here anymore anyway and chances are they were gone long before I made the move to meat.

[RiverBottom]

Kind of interesting to read all the different viewpoints on this post.

I feed mostly dog food, but I also feed all the meat I can get in the winter, I let them eat all they want. My dogs are working much harder then and meat is the best thing you can feed them. Running hare through the snow day after day takes lots of energy, dog food isn't always enough. I don't have a good way to store meat in warmer weather or I would feed it then also, but they can gain weight fast on a meat diet if they are not running hard to burn it off.

I also feed my dogs raw eggs, chicken bones, rabbits feet, (they love those, nothing but hair and bones but that's a treat for them ), in fact they get all of the rabbit except the guts and what goes in the frying pan. Also in season they get lots of pocket gophers and all the baby birds they can catch. Thought about getting a bunch of carp to feed them but don't know if the wife will put up with a freezer full of those My old dog, Rose hunts for mice, and catches them. She also is an expert at finding the most disgusting stuff out in the woods and eating it. I could leave her loose in the wild and she would stay fat all the time.

None of that stuff is bad for them, no matter what anyone writes. If it was there wouldn't be any fox, coyotes or wolves. Yes, there are dogs out there that can't handle this kind of diet, but none of those dogs are beagles.

Bucks, when they are hunting they don't have time to eat. Aside from that, who cares? Dogs are not people. I try to work with what they are and not change them into something they are not and never will be. What is disgusting to us tastes pretty good to them. Don't let that bother you. I think dogs like meat better after it has aged a while. Anyone that has ever raised a litter of pups has dogs that eat sh*t. If they didn't, the pups would not survive. The mother doesn't eat that stuff because she wants clean puppies, she does it because it tastes good (to a dog). Trying to keep dogs from eating it is like trying to stop a fish from swimming. Just don't let them lick you on the lips

[Keystone Kid]

My in laws " neighbors" Have Chickens and always have more Eggs than they can ever eat. I am gonna start adding some Egg to my Dogs diet, My question is should i cook them or feed them Raw?

If you feed a dog the whole egg then yes you should cook them. If you feed the dog just the yoke then know. The whites should be cooked.

[Bunnyblaster]

I'll just do what I always have done................this is getting more confusing with every post.

[TC]

If you feed a dog the whole egg then yes you should cook them. If you feed the dog just the yoke then know. The whites should be cooked.

Ours have been Eating RAW eggs SHELL AND ALL Pretty much Every Day for the last Eight years or more. Our Old dog that passed Ate em every Day for 11 years With NO PROBLEMS that we ever Seen...
We have Laying hens and feed them one to two eggs each pretty much every day.. AINT killed em......OR even made em Sick.......
The ONLY Adverse Effect I have ever heard of is that One of the enzymes in Raw Eggs can actually lead to a Deficiency in Another BUT as long as you are feeding a good Quality Food and you Supplement regularly with fish oil or another Omega 3 or 6 you will be fine it aint gonna hurt em.....

Raw egg whites contain avidin, an enzyme which ties up biotin (makes it unavailable for absorption into the body). Symptoms of biotin deficiency include dermatitis (inflammation of the skin), loss of hair, and poor growth.

Now that being Said Biotin is a Vitamin B complex witch Can be found in ALL different ways and unless you are feeding a VERY POOR feed your dog wont suffer any ill symptoms....
This link Explains the vitamin and nutrients pretty well....
http://www.canismajor.com/dog/nutrit2.html

SO I can SEE where feeding Raw Eggs COULD lead to Problems but We aint never Seen any of em........

[da ridgetop]

Feeding raw eggs helps keep dogs coats slick and shiny,been doing this myself for 15yrs never gave one the shell but really cant see that hurting one either. I also give cod liver oil about twice a week and this also helps with their coat.I dont think i have ever heard of a dog having health issues because their owner give them a egg to eat,old timers wouldn't give them because they say it makes egg suckers out of them but to me it's a good added source of protein. Donald

[klrconcrete]

Anyone with misgivings about feeding a raw diet shouldnt feed it, plain and simple. It takes more effort than a plastic scoop of kibble thrown in a bowl every night, depending on the sources you have for the ingredients it can cost more than kibble, it takes more planning than running and getting a bag of kibble when the stock is low, etc.etc. Lots of reasons not to do it. If the obvious benefits of feeding a raw or natural diet escape you - stay with dry kibble- you are at capacity with that.

[Joeyman]

I've never tried feeding an all raw diet cause I dont have the time to do it. Seems like alot of work to me. Just not something I have the time for. Sounds like a great idea though.

I just give my younger dogs/pups a raw egg cracked over kibble so they grow up nice and shiney and the extra protein helps too. Thats just something i've been doing for a while now. I've got some that will even eat the shell. Extra crunchy snack i guess....