Question About Dogs & Eggs

[Aquatic_blue]

I have heard cooked chicken eggs are a great source of vitamins for dogs.

I have also heard for the longest time that you should never give eggs to dogs because then they will seek to steal the chickens eggs or kill the chickens. "Once you give them chicken eggs there is no going back." I want to refuse to believe this, but being a chicken owner I want to know - is this a silly myth or a fact?

 

[50-45-1]

I believe that if you show a dog and feed a dog raw eggs, they might make the connection and start seeking eggs on their own in your coop.
if however you cook the eggs and feed them that way it is better.
Eggs are a great source of nutrients for humans dogs and chickens.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I feed my dogs cooked eggs all the time. If my dogs find a random egg laid in an unusual place they will help themselves to it. They are dogs. Just make sure your dogs can't get to your nestboxes and you will be fine.

 

[Aquatic_blue]

I believe that if you show a dog and feed a dog raw eggs, they might make the connection and start seeking eggs on their own in your coop.
if however you cook the eggs and feed them that way it is better.
Eggs are a great source of nutrients for humans dogs and chickens.

I can also see how the eggs may just need to be cooked, too. =)

 

[Aquatic_blue]

I feed my dogs cooked eggs all the time. If my dogs find a random egg laid in an unusual place they will help themselves to it. They are dogs. Just make sure your dogs can't get to your nestboxes and you will be fine.

That's another thing lol dogs are dogs so they may not be seeking the eggs, just curious at one lying about in their reach!

 

[cassie]

I fed my dogs cooked eggs and I fed my dogs raw eggs. I never had one go in the coop and help itself, but I did break the eggs and put them in a dish. My dogs couldn't get in the coop anyway. If the dog could get in raccoons sure could, and if the raccoons got in the coop that would be the end of my chickens.

 

[Perris]

you should never give eggs to dogs because then they will seek to steal the chickens eggs or kill the chickens

it's not true at least in my experience. I give my dog any egg that breaches UK quality control standards (e.g. thin shell, anything dubious really) raw. And as in @cassie 's case, he can't get in the nesting boxes anyway.

 

[TriskeleFarm]

2 of my 6 dogs will pick up eggs they can get to. including fake eggs. one is a lab the other is a cocker spaniel. both are soft mouthed and will just carry the eggs around. IF it cracks, they will eat it. Otherwise, they think they're balls basically.
I've fed all the dogs both raw and cooked egg, I don't think it has anything to do with them figuring out where it came from.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Not sure if my dogs would even react to a raw, whole egg just sitting there, but they sure come running when they hear a hard boiled egg being cracked, as I often give them some yolks.

Lightly scrambled eggs is what I feed my dogs if they have tummy troubles. It's easily digestible and lets their stomachs settle and a lot less hassle than cooking up chicken meat and rice for the same purpose.

 

[Aquatic_blue]

So far this is seeming like a silly myth, but as you all are saying - dogs can't get to the nesting boxes. Totally true, they should never be able to!