The vet recomended feeding my moms cat, Sheba, chicken eggs for her skin. Are uncooked eggs safe? Or how do i serve them to her? Are they even good for her?
Do you need to cook the yolk too?Hi!
The white of the egg should be cooked. Sometimes people will cook the white and add the yolk to make a sort of slurry
Actually, cats have been known to raid birds nests for eggs. Not often, but it is natural behavior....It also isn't part of their natural diet, when was the last time you've seen a cat chase around a chicken egg.
I do recall reading something about egg whites and histamine a while back.
This is great advice. I add hard-boiled egg yolk (that I just boil up when I need them) to our cats' homemade food. They get an average of around one extra yolk a week. (There's also egg yolk in the cooked food supplements I use.)The amount of egg we're talking about is very small. Maybe 1/8 tsp to 1 tsp. I'd start with a small amount in her meals once or twice a day. Giving it more regularly than once or twice a week helps you and her get more comfortable with how it might affect her. And because these are really small amounts compared to a full egg, unless you eat eggs daily, it's probably better to buy or make your own egg yolk powder. It will be more fridge stable than fresh eggs and easier to give small amounts.
You can learn how to make your own egg yolk powder or buy theirs from this page:
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Thanks I think we will try this. Using a hard boiled yolk ground up and split into fourths sprinkle a little bit in the food maybe 2x a week so 1/2 egg yolk total a week but spread out.This is great advice. I add hard-boiled egg yolk (that I just boil up when I need them) to our cats' homemade food. They get an average of around one extra yolk a week. (There's also egg yolk in the cooked food supplements I use.)
You could do that, though I really think daftcat75 had a good point about this:Thanks I think we will try this. Using a hard boiled yolk ground up and split into fourths sprinkle a little bit in the food maybe 2x a week so 1/2 egg yolk total a week but spread out.
Some cats don't really like it so smaller amounts may be more palatable, plus sometimes too much (for an individual cat) can cause diarrhea, as B bitkit noted. (The choline in the egg yolk pushes helps move food thorugh the digestive tract.) Our cats like it and do fine with quite a bit of it added but not all do! The biggest reason I think it's good to feed it as regularly as possible is that it acts as an emulsifier to prevent hairballs -- I like having that going all the time since one of our cats is very fluffy and can build up a lot of hair fast!Giving it more regularly than once or twice a week helps you and her get more comfortable with how it might affect her.