We have just started feeding one of the dogs raw food (the already prepared), but I was wondering if they can have eggs in any form?

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Yes, and yes. I give mine hard boiled eggs, shell on.

OMG? With the shell on?

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Dogmom to Reilly (12 - our 1 year cancer survivor), Bianca - our 9 year old rescue and Helen, the orange kitty who thinks she's a GR
Doggie Grandma to Jameson, our precious 1 year old boy
Also Dogmom to Casey, Cobey, Snuggles and Cayman - now at the Rainbow Bridge, but forever in our hearts

Yes the shell breaks into little tiny pieces once they eat it. We feed hard boiled eggs and the occasional raw one as well.

It's funny to watch them have an egg for the first time. There's a thread around here full of pictures and funny videos of their goldens with their first egg!

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The shells are also great for raw feeders as they contain a very natural form of calcium!!

Thanks everyone! I'll have to look for the videos and pictures - sounds like they're too funny!

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Dogmom to Reilly (12 - our 1 year cancer survivor), Bianca - our 9 year old rescue and Helen, the orange kitty who thinks she's a GR
Doggie Grandma to Jameson, our precious 1 year old boy
Also Dogmom to Casey, Cobey, Snuggles and Cayman - now at the Rainbow Bridge, but forever in our hearts

Yep, as others said, I give Flora a raw egg every now and again, shell and everything. She bats it around on the ground for a while until she cracks it, and then she licks it off the sidewalk and eats the shell. Ick!

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Eggs are great for dogs. I'm sure at some point you will hear or read that dogs shouldn't have raw egg white because they contain a substance that binds certain vitamins and if fed in large quantities could potentially cause a deficiency. Sure that *could* happen if you fed tons of just egg whites, but when fed with the yolk (that contains an abundance of the vitamins in question) it is pretty much impossible to cause a deficiency!

One of my dogs will eat the shell, the others not so much, but I definitely give them the opportunity to try.

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All of my dogs grab their eggs and immediately start crunching, with the exception of Crew, and now, Bueller. They both carefully roll them around and gently put them on the ground, pick them back up, roll them around some more... so, I give theirs a good crack for them, and they crunch them right up. They just can't quite bring themselves (or figure out how) to do it on their own!

Yep, Ranger gets raw eggs a few times a week to help with his dry skin. I feed more in the winter since it gets so dry up here. He walked around the yard for ten minutes the first time I gave him an egg and I eventually had to crack it for him. Then i started tossing them to him, hoping they'd break on contact and that he'd figure it out but he caught them too gently. He finally knows how to crack them himself and loooves eggs. The noise of the egg carton brings him running into the kitchen.

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