Feeding Eggs: Boiled or Scrambled...

[SweetMissDaisy]

I often mix up our extra, soiled, or cracked eggs for the dogs, chickens, and chicks.

When I only have a couple eggs to give, I crack them into a bowl, add a small bit of water, scramble them with a fork, and microwave them until they're cooked (the water seems to make them less likely to explode in the microwave).

When I have more than just a couple of eggs, I scramble them up in a pan on the stove top.

I keep reading comments where people feed BOILED eggs and I rarely see "scrambled" as the cooking method. Am I missing something? Is boiled better, or just the preferred method for easy clean-up?

 

[gritsar]

Nah, I think either way is fine. I used to hard boil em when the chickens were little. I liked to watch them play keepaway with the pieces of egg white.
Nowadays I mainly scramble as I'm too lazy to peel them and since fresh eggs are harder to peel scrambled is just easier.

 

[Davaroo]

Either way is good. What you DONT want to do is toss eggs, uncooked, to the hens. Gives them the wrong idea, you know?

I just take all the extras in the fridge no one wants to eat anymore, mix it all together with any cooked egg and feed it to the chickens.

No worries and no wasted food.

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

Oh yea, agree about the raw egg comment. As long as scrambled is ok, I'll stick to that. They seem to like it, and I like not having to peel eggs.

 

[curliet]

We've been boiling and then mashing with the shell still on, they eat every bit of it.

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

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Well, now there's an idea!! I'll try that tomorrow!