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Your dogs and chickens would love to have them as scrambled eggs if you don't feel you can eat them. I also crush the shells and feed back to my birds. But they have a treat of scrambled at least once a week. The dogs get them a couple of times a week.
I have a few birds that I will not hatch from and 1 that has never been fertile, there are sometimes also eggs that were in the heat too long and eggs that are too dirty for me to want to mess with.....so they go in the dog/chicken bowl for scrambling day.
I only have 6 dogs.........lol. I certainly could scramble them and they would love it. My husband gives our 2 very large dogs 1 raw egg in their food once a week. I would prefer cooking them myself. I have no problem eating the wonderful eggs I get from my bandies and LF. I make eggs for dinner at least once a week. I guess I was just thinking about "wasting a Serama" I got one egg today that might be from the other Serama hen that I got and it is a very, very small egg but it does have and air space so I threw it in the bator. Do those ever hatch? It is much smaller than all the other serama eggs which I think are from my frizzle. It was so cute, I couldn't resist trying to hatch it but I will keep a close eye on it.
My Serama don't lay for diddly and most of my 'yard bird' bantams are playing mom right now
, but when I have an over-abundance of bantam eggs (LF eggs get sold unless they have cracks) I boil them, crush them with a plastic cup shell and all, and feed them to my chickens. On hot days I keep the eggs in the fridge over night before I crush them so the birds get a 'cool' treat; on cold days I crush them right out of the boiling water so the birds get a 'warm' treat. I don't bother feeding yolks to my chicks since I use 20% protein chick starter anyway.
Dogs are mostly dads, so they can do without
Though I do give our house terrier some boiled button quail eggs when they aren't selling, she sure does love them
