Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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.... Personally, I would continue with supplementation. Simply because it is inexpensive, I don't think you would be doing any harm, and could possibly be giving even more benefit.
I'd like to hear others opinions on this, though.
I agree. I believe that most of humankind's history (and dogs) featured a diet with a 6-to-3 ratio of 2:1 to 1:1. Now it's more like 15:1 or even 20:1 in western diets.
JMO.
This is about humans, but is still a nice succinct overview of how skewed the Omega 6:Omega 3 ratio has become.
While it's true that cardiovascular disease isn't a dog problem, many (or most) chronic conditions are inflammation-related, and that includes the chronic conditions of dogs.
I have also been known to dump them into a skillet and cook up a few in about 15 seconds. lol
Even bought cage-free eggs are very very cheap protein cost, but I sure do envy the folks with chickens
So what kind of a limit would you put on cooked eggs?
My mom has chickens and needed to worm them a month ago so the dogs got 2 weeks worth of eggs from 24 chickens. Missy is working her way through them (I scramble up a few to add to THK meals). I'd say she gets 6-8 a week right now. The other two get a few a week added to their regular food, too.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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I knew someone would ask that. LOL
Here's the issue: If you use them without shells, as part of the muscle-meat portion of the diet, then that's the limit: the equivalent in boneless meat that you would otherwise give.
But if you ever use them for any length of time as replacement for RMBs, then you need to include some shell. However, only half of one eggshell will do it for a pound of boneless food. That is, leaving them all on a few eggs at once would be a lot of calcium and could cause constipation (even other problems if this was a long-term diet, which I pretty much would not recommend).
Personally, I would have no problem giving 6-8 cooked eggs a week as additions to THK or as MM substitution in a raw diet.
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No limit within reason on cooked eggs IMO. A couple of cooked eggs a day (included in the total weight of the meal) would not be too much. I wouldn want to see a canine diet based solely on eggs (or solely on any single protein) but I think you'd be hard pressed to overdo cooked eggs. Again JMO.
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I wouldn want to see a canine diet based solely on eggs (or solely on any single protein) but I think you'd be hard pressed to overdo cooked eggs. Again JMO.
Yeah, pretty much my take. Dogs don't have the cardiovascular concerns that might make their doctors say to limit egg yolks. LOL
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