Surplus eggs: dog food

[Two_Sheds]

It's just occurred to me to suggest that any of you with dogs, and hens, you can of course feed your dog with the eggs.

The raw food/prey diet suggests raw eggs with shell, but I like to feed them boiled, with most of the shell discarded (because the dog pulls a face if I give her shell).

How Much?
Mine gets 2.5% of her bodyweight in meat (or egg, or fish, or a combination), per day, which is 150g. I rarely pay more than 40p a day for her food, buying from supermarkets or the butchers (some sell "dog meat" at the end of the day, portioning it up into boxes and freezing until needed.

[greenishfing]

My mothers Great Dane used to love raw egg, shell and all. She used to buy eggs by the big tray. If ever the dog managed to get into the storeroom, and some idiot had put them on a low shelf. he used to gently pick one up in his mouth, drop it on the concrete floor and then eat all the evidence. He;d probably been doing it for years before we ever caught him. Sneaky bu***** never took them all, just a little snack.

[Feral007]

The kepie's already take an undue interest in our chooks, I'm not keen to encourage them any more than they already are!

[scorpius]

Ours love raw eggs

[SarzWix]

Pads loves raw egg, and so do the cats of course. It makes their coats beautifully glossy and healthy looking

[Aberdeenplotter]

ermm does it have an effect on the noxiousness of dog farts? Eggs can be niffy on their own and of course dogs can be vile on their own as well. The combination seems to have the potential to be supervile.

[veggiechicken]

Only gone-orf eggs are niffy My dogs' favourite treats are sprouts and cabbage stalks - and it has no effect whatsoever on their "output"

[Glutton4...]

My Dawg doesn't 'do' raw eggs! First Goldie I've ever met that isn't a total gannet, in fact he's quite fussy - won't eat $h@p€$, B0n!0$ or $chm@ck0$! It's a pain, as if one of us drops an egg, or has some raw egg left-over, he doesn't want to know. Weirdo!

[petal]

when one of our dogs has had a bad tummy I always offer a little scrambled egg to help bind their botty up again....

[Two_Sheds]

The kepie's already take an undue interest in our chooks, I'm not keen to encourage them any more than they already are!

They won't put 2 and 2 together, if you don't actually show them where you get the eggs from !

ermm does it have an effect on the noxiousness of dog farts?

Actually, since I've switched to raw meat/raw fish diet, her farts & her breath are tons better than before, when she was on dry kibble.

The theory is that dogs cannot digest cereals (which make up a bulk of the dry food, cos it's a cheap tummy filler) and that it causes farts, indigestion and runny stinky poos.

If you're interested, her poos are now tiny, very firm, and not stinky


And I compost them at home, in a dalek, 8ft from the back door

[petal]

[QUOTE=Two_Sheds;1111118]If you're interested, her poos are now tiny, very firm, and not stinky..."

I might try this raw meat / raw veg diet on my husband then.

[jessmorris]

ho ho I read this thread with amusement - my dogs will eat any kind of egg, raw or cooked, and the spaniel will eat egg shells without any egg in them. The collie will eat dead in shell chicks too! Ewww.

[Glutton4...]

Yes, Eeewwww - but very useful, Jess!

[petal]

dead in shell ducklings are a delicacy in china. you tube it - massive EW!

[jessmorris]

Maybe she's a spaniel with Chinese leanings?...she rolled in otter poo yesterday - double eww....