Cracked Egg

[LaurenThompson]

Hello! We have had our small (5 hens) flock for not quite a week yet! We have been lucky enough to collect 5 blue eggs so far! We received our very first brown egg this morning, but unfortunately she laid it on the run ramp and it rolled down and got a small crack in it. I know it was not fit for consumption, so we disposed of it...however, it got me thinking, would it have been fine to feed to our dog by chance? Or is there something else we can do with a cracked egg? It just felt so terrible disposing of it!

Thank you!

 

[HappyClucker7]

You could cook it up and feed it to your chickens. Eggs are good for them.

 

[MrFluffyandGirls]

My dog steals eggs if given the chance and eats them. Though I would rather feed her cooked eggs.
I've fed cooked eggs smashed up shell and all to my dog and chickens.

 

[lysmandor]

I mean, my dogs eat chicken poop... so I can't imagine a freshly cracked egg is worse!

That said, I think the concern with cracked eggs is that it is letting bacteria in, and therefore 'goes bad' much faster. If the egg JUST cracked, there isn't likely too much bacterial penetration yet. Probably wouldn't hurt you cooked either (if you ate it immediately), but definitely would be fine to feed any animals, esp cooked.

We saved an egg that had a pinhole crack and ate it the next day (refrigerated) and nothing terrible happened! That said, it was very clean, and the membrane was still intact - I can't see how it's too much different from cracking an egg into a bowl, then putting it in the fridge, then cooking it in a few hours.

 

[rosemarythyme]

If it *just* gotten cracked I would've eaten it myself, immediately, or fed it to the dogs, as there isn't really time for bacteria growth to be an issue.

If it was cracked and had been sitting there an unknown period of time like that, then safer to discard.

 

[JaeG]

Our dog loves getting gross eggs. It can make a dog a bit stinky (ie. gassy) if they are an inside dog. One egg is usually fine but a few might make them a little unpleasant to be in close quarters with.

 

[Jrios58]

I mean, my dogs eat chicken poop... so I can't imagine a freshly cracked egg is worse!

That said, I think the concern with cracked eggs is that it is letting bacteria in, and therefore 'goes bad' much faster. If the egg JUST cracked, there isn't likely too much bacterial penetration yet. Probably wouldn't hurt you cooked either (if you ate it immediately), but definitely would be fine to feed any animals, esp cooked.

We saved an egg that had a pinhole crack and ate it the next day (refrigerated) and nothing terrible happened! That said, it was very clean, and the membrane was still intact - I can't see how it's too much different from cracking an egg into a bowl, then putting it in the fridge, then cooking it in a few hours.

We've done the same- there's really not enough time for the egg to go bad. I refrigerate ours practically as they lay them-

 

[RojoMarz]

I also use/eat fresh cracked eggs. We use them first. Our nest box has an internal board that makes a ledge. No matter how much hay I put in the box, they root around and make the nest so the ledge is showing. I get cracked/dented eggs quite frequently. Lots of times, you can see the membrane is still intact.