I am wondering if anyone has a problem with feeding their dogs raw eggs with the shell and then their dogs start eating the eggs your chickens are laying? I have to Great Pyrenees that are puppies and I don't want them eating eggs that my chickens lay but I am considering giving them eggs in their bowls.

Does that makes sense? Any thoughts?

Thanks!

In my experience, no. I grew up rurally and we always had chickens but only one dog out of several (a black lab named Snoopy) was "an egg sucking dog" like the Johnny Cash song.

A hungry dog is likely to smell that an intact egg might be worth biting into. But I use raw eggs in my dogs meals often (which they love) and they have yet to make the connection that an egg is something they should try to bite into when in a laying box that is off-limits.

Similarly, my dogs know not to bother the chickens (exceptions sometimes occur when one suddenly runs/flies low really fast), and they eat raw chicken pretty much daily. But I've yet to lose one fowl to mine, and even when presented with an uncracked egg, they just sniff and roll it, and don't even treat it like a ball.

As the best cooler in the business, Dalton, said in Roadhouse, "Opinions vary," so don't be surprised if someone has had a totally different experience. But for me, it's almost like the argument that eating raw gives dogs a killer instinct. What is in their bowl is food you give them, nothing more. Just my opinion.

In my experience, yes. Perhaps because I've handed my dogs a whole egg as a treat when leaving the chicken yard, but my two would absolutely eat any eggs they had access to. Case in point... one night I had gathered the eggs but left the bucket on the steps into the house while I did "one more thing" outside. My husband, not realizing this, let one of the dogs into the garage. Her dinner consisted of seven eggs that evening.

Perhaps by not giving your dog the egg in its "whole form" but crushing it up in their meal you could prevent this... It would probably also vary from dog to dog.

Thanks, Barbara! I always knew the wisdom of Dalton was wise! I'd bet in the next six months, one of mine finally figure it out and I'll regret that post.

For now, I'll try to put more stars underneath your name.

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Thanks, Barbara! I always knew the wisdom of Dalton was wise! I'd bet in the next six months, one of mine finally figure it out and I'll regret that post.

For now, I'll try to put more stars underneath your name.

I think your comment about giving dogs raw eggs creating egg suckin' dogs being similar to giving them raw meat making them killers was a good point, and had I not had my own experience, I would have agreed 100%. One of my dogs crunches the entire egg with gusto, the other (Falcon) almost "licks" the shell apart as delicately as if he was kissing a baby...