Milk And Vitamins

[yellowgirl]

Eggs should be cooked. Raw egg white contains a chemical that inhibits the dog's natural vitamin B production. I think it's one of those 'old wives tales' that raw eggs are good for dogs ... I thought so too for many years

Raw egg white certain does have the affect of inhibiting Biotin uptake however nature is a pretty canny creature and egg yolk contains a excess of biotin and these two facts counteract each other. Raw egg white is no more a natural food for a dog than cooked egg white - in the wild the dog would eat the whole egg (including some of the shell). Plus... you'd have to feed a whole pile of egg white (on it's own) to affect most dogs. Just another little fact the dog food industry has taken what they want out of and ignored the whole fact

Thanks for that info Sandra. I'll stick with adding scrambled eggs though because I use beautiful free range eggs and on the day I make up the dog food I have scrambled eggs for lunch! (obviously the eggs are cooked separately before being added to the dogs' food! )

[ellz]

PS. If you're going to feed raw eggs, add them shell and all. The shells won't hurt them and are a natural source of calcium too. And if a dog robbed a nest in the wild, they'd eat the eggs shell and all anyway. There isn't anybody in the wild to crack and separate eggs nicely for a hungry canine!