Are they safe to eat?

[aart]

Oh, and can you eat an egg with a less than calcified shell

As long as shell is intact, thick enough to not be cracked.
Some birds have rough shells.

 

[Peppercorngal]

If I had any question about the cracked egg or the sun egg I would simply add them to scrambled eggs and give them back to the hens! They need the protein.

 

[Stephine]

We have a very handy farm dog who eats all the poopy eggs that are too yucky for the kitchen... even the cracked eggs from the same day. He eats the poop without the eggs when he is out with the flock

Cracked egg...no way.
Run egg.....depends on how 'dirty' it is,
some are too disgusting to bother with cleaning, IMO.

There's a little dirt on a fresh egg, and there's really dirty. I throw those away too.
Mary

, so I know they don’t harm him!

 

[Folly's place]

Dogs eat the most disgusting things...
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

Dogs also vomit easily which often saves them for the food poisoning, etc, that their eating habits cause.
Mary

 

[Stephine]

Dogs also vomit easily which often saves them for the food poisoning, etc, that their eating habits cause.
Mary

Yeah, mine never does - he has a really good stomach, raw fed from puppyhood...

 

[ScottandSam]

We get cracked Eggs sometimes and sometimes really dirty eggs. I know what people say but a lot of times I simply pick them up and throw them the girls. They will rush it (they free range). They'll eat all of it and what they don't the 2 lgd will. I'll continue to do this until we see a problem, but for now the girls wont eat eggs in a nest or one just laying on the ground.
Other times when were cooking we will go get these what if eggs and scramble them and feed the chickens that.
We just do what's working for us right now.
Scott

 

[GC-Raptor]

Any soft shelled, thin shelled, cracked eggs or covered in poop, get smashed on the ground and the hens devour them.
An egg with egg whites/yoke on shell gets washed. I wash all eggs that don't get fed to chickens. GC

 

[Peppercorngal]

We have a very handy farm dog who eats all the poopy eggs that are too yucky for the kitchen... even the cracked eggs from the same day. He eats the poop without the eggs when he is out with the flock



, so I know they don’t harm him!

Yeah, what is it about dogs eating chicken poop? Mine do too!