Feeding eggs to chickens

[KristyHall]

Sometimes if I drop or damage an egg, or if I am just completely overwhelmed with them, I crush the eggs and shells and mix them withs me cooked rice or some other treat for the chickens and feed them back, but someone told me it's not good for the chickens to do that.
Is it ok to give them back their eggs?

 

[Beekissed]

I wouldn't listen to what anyone says about all that. I've been feeding my eggs back to my chickens for years and never have had an egg eater nor any bad results from it.

When I get a damaged egg my method is to throw it out in the yard....whomever gets to it first is the winner~dog or chickens.

You really don't have to cook the eggs or disguise them in any way....just give it to them. The protein and the calcium is great for them.

 

[KristyHall]

Thanks, that is reassuring. I had one egg eater and I broke that habbit by buying those cheap plastic easter eggs, filling them with sand and taping them shut. I then placed them in all the nesting boxes and after a while, the culprit quit breaking eggs.

 

[secuono]

Hard boil or scramble the eggs, never give them the raw product. If you drop an egg, clean it up asap.

 

[meme]

I feed my chickens eggs once in a while. But I don`t do it that much, because I don`t want them to eat their eggs, right after they lay them. Its not bad for them. I would feed them about 3 or 4 chicken eggs a month.

good luck,

 

[TigerLilly]

I feed my chickens cooked eggs periodically (like when I drop 1). I always feed them the eggshells for calcium.

 

[chicks & ducks]

I feed my chickens and ducks(and occasionally the cats grab a bite too) chicken eggs, scrambled. Usually it's only in 1 of 2 circumstances=
1. we have run out of chicken food at the last minute
or
2. we have 10 dozen or so eggs sitting in the fridge that need to be gone within the week.

I also sometimes will feed them eggs in the winter just to warm them up a little bit. It probably doesn't matter to them but it makes me feel a bit better.

 

[spifamily]

I always crush extra eggs, or partially pecked eggs back to the livestock. I had 6 eggs in a pail last night, and watched my Mcnabb steal the last one out of the pail and eat it. I didn't know it was the last one until I caught her with it!

 

[MonsterMalak]

I would make sure to boil, cook, or mix in a feed. Otherwise, the chickens can learn to eat their own eggs. Then the habbit can spread rapidly, and is hard to break.

But eggs are a great food source, sad to waste it.

 

[elevan]

When scrambled or hard cooked the eggs no longer even remotely resemble an egg to a chicken.

My girls are picky though and only 2 are willing to eat scrambled eggs...most of our extras got to the pig or the dogs (when there are extras). My girls would much rather you give them a large juicy worm than a scrambled egg