are eggs ok for dogs?

[mopinko]

looking forward to my chickens, and although my neighbors are lined up for the fresh eggs, i fear an egg surplus. i am sure it will happen from time to time.
i have a vague recollection of a reason eggs were bad for dogs, but haven't a clue what that was. i used to give them long ago.
anybody?

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. It depends upon which side of the "what is okay to feed your dog" fence one is on.

My vet has said cooked eggs, in moderation, are fine. There are those who believe in the raw diet who will feed them raw to dogs but this blocks the absorption of biotin. Again, this is strictly my opinion and also what my vet has said. I would never feed Jessie a raw egg because I have already spent $1500 in her lifetime for a surgery because of something she ate.

[mopinko]

5. definitely cooked.

i am thinking that if the are hard boiled they can have them shells and all. outside, of course. the parrots like them, but they get broody if you give it too often.

[zbdent]

2. hey, whatever happens in your bedroom is none of my business ...

[ret5hd]

3. ok, just to riff off of you: ( please don't flame me, i know i' wrong)

Yeah!!! If she was better lookin' would you be askin' this question???

[zbdent]

4. I'm sure that Santorum is getting legislation ready

to make dog-on-egg sex illegal, too ...

[mopinko]

6. but but

they wont let me have a rooster in the city. just hens. what am i supposed to do?

[TorchTheWitch]

7. cooked only

Dogs get salmonella poisoning just as we do. To be on the safe side, only give them cooked, preferably scrambled.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. My dogs loved cooked eggs.

[wildeyed]

9. I give my dogs raw and cooked eggs.

We have chickens and we do have excess eggs sometimes. Apparently, in raw eggs, there something in the egg white block the absorption of something, maybe the biotin that someone else mentioned? But there is excess of that particular thing in the yolk, so it is ok, at least according to Google. I give them raw maybe twice a week when I have excess. If they were wild, they would occasionally be eating raw eggs, so I don't worry too much. If a chicken has laid in a random place outside the coop, and the dogs find it, they crunch it right up, shell and all, with no problems. No worries about food poisoning since these are my personal chickens kept in clean and humane surroundings.

[Sera_Bellum]

10. I'm with the cooked eggs

vote. The first night my homeless hound came home to me I thought of the great idea to give her raw eggs because her coat was so scraggly. Bad move on my part, not only did I make my girl sick....I was up all night cleaning up.

[mopinko]

12. i hate when good deeds go bad like that.

i am hoping to give this pup a strong stomach by feeding him a lot of stuff now. my other dogs love people food but get sick from it often.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Cooked eggs are fine for dogs

Many (many many) years ago we had a beagle puppy who, unbeknownst to us, was a very sick little girl. The vet suggested we give her only cooked rice and scrambled eggs for the first few months we had her.

Even today, every once in a while I'll scramble an egg and divide it up as a treat. Sparkly will sometimes share poached egg leftovers with them. Also, when we make deviled eggs there are inevitably some eggs mangled in peeling. I mostly eat them, but if I'm not there, Sparkly gives those to the dogs, too.

They love eggs. When the proverbial fox enters the proverbial henhouse, the eggs are the delicacy.

[Denninmi]

13. I feed my dog eggs all of the time.

It's one way to use up the surplus.

He seems to like them whatever way I make them -- fried, scrambled, boiled, deviled eggs.