Brenda Mitchell Webboard User Reg: 07-03-2007
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I give my bullmastiff a raw egg on top of her puppy food every morning. She has demotectic mange, so I was doing some "surfing" on how to help skin problems. I came across this statement:
Raw egg whites contain a protein called avidin, which can deplete your dog of biotin, one of the B vitamins. Biotin is essential to your dog’s growth and coat health. The lack of it can cause hair loss, weakness, growth retardation, or skeleton deformity. Raw egg yolks contain enough biotin to prevent the deficiency, so this is not a problem with raw whole eggs. Raw egg yolks could contain salmonella, so you should get your eggs from a reliable source or cook the eggs.
So basically they are saying that it's okay to give them an egg as long as the yolk is there and they balance each other out, but now my husband is saying "why give her the entire egg, why not just give her the yolk? If the white is bad and the yolk is balancing it out, let's just give her the good yolk".
Janice Jarman Webboard User Reg: 04-19-2005
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Well, in general my thoughts are that seperating eggs is a pain in the neck. I do it once a year for making home made egg nog, but not for anything else.
Sandy Moore Webboard User Reg: 07-25-2006
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Who the heck knows for sure
A few years ago, for human diets, it was said the egg was terrible for you and to just eat the whites, not the yolks. (This after centuries of people eating the whole egg.)
THEN a few years later, that "theory" was replaced with a newer more educated (?) theory that the white of the egg balanced the bad of the yolk and that the egg was a complete food (didn't we already know that many many years ago?) and one should eat the whole thing.
According to the statement you posted, now someone else has a theory that the white of the egg is bad.
My conclusion: what the heck, eat the egg!
All these "findings" are theories, some claim scientific, but theory nonetheless, since real scientific fact doesn't change every decade.
Brenda Mitchell Webboard User Reg: 07-03-2007
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you guys are funny. I tend to agree with you - this is the first that I've heard that an egg white is not good for a dog. If anyone knows something for sure please let me know - otherwise I'll keep feeding my dog the whole egg. thanks!
Oh I'll definitely start separating eggs for my dogs...
...just as soon as I see a wolf in the wild spitting out the egg whites when feasting on a fallen bird's nest
That's the beauty of feeding WHOLE foods. The nutrient combinations just work. You don't need theories or calculations or added synthetic vitamins and minerals :-)
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