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We are almost sure you would never believe that chickens can eat eggs. It makes sense to not believe it. Chickens lay eggs, and sometimes these eggs grow to become little chickens. So for them to turn around and eat their own eggs is a bit ironic, right?

Now, the question is, are eggs good for chickens?

Eggs are good for chickens, and they can eat all parts of an egg, raw or cooked. Egg treats are great sources of protein and calcium for chickens. Besides these two, eggs also contain other nutrients essential for the survival of chickens.

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So far, we’ve confirmed that chickens can eat eggs, but there’s more to discuss. So, in the next few paragraphs, we will focus on the types of eggs they eat, what they get from eating eggs, and much more.

Are Eggs Good for Chickens

Eggs are good for chickens. We eat eggs for the nutrients they contain, and chickens do the same. So, what nutrients are contained in eggs, and how are they of benefit to chickens?

According to the USDA, 100 grams of an egg contains the following:

13 grams of protein
124 mg of sodium
126 mg of potassium
Iron
Magnesium
Calcium
Vitamin A
Vitamin D
Vitamin B6
Vitamin B12

Eggs contain about 13% protein, which is about the same protein content in an ideal layers feed. With such high protein content, it is no surprise chickens will resort to eating eggs when they are not getting enough protein.

So, what does protein do for chickens? Well, protein causes chickens to grow. With enough protein, your chickens will grow very well. Protein facilitates the growth of feathers, nails, muscles, and basically every part of the body.

Potassium is quite beneficial for chickens when there’s heat stress, while Iron is essential for blood formation.

Magnesium has multiple benefits in chickens. For one, it helps with bone and egg formation. Magnesium also helps the chickens utilize other nutrients effectively, it helps with their nervous functions, and much more.

Without calcium, your chickens will have weak bones, and their muscles may not function as they should. A lack of calcium may also make the shells of the eggs they lay weak.

Eggshells are a great source of calcium. Your chickens may be pecking on them because they are not getting enough calcium in their diet. Besides the eggshell, the other parts of an egg also contain some calcium.

Vitamin A will help the chickens grow healthy feathers and skin. It will also help with their vision. Vitamin D works in tandem with calcium and phosphorus for bone formation.

Vitamin B6 will do a lot for the nervous functions of your chickens, while vitamin B12 is an essential cofactor. It plays a vital role in the formation of certain other substances in the body.

In fewer words, when chickens eat eggs, they get a whole lot of nutrients that can make them healthy.

Can Chickens Eat Scrambled Eggs

Chickens can eat scrambled eggs. In fact, scrambled eggs is one of the healthiest treats you can feed your chickens. In situations where your chickens lay excess eggs, you can use some of them into making delicious scrambled eggs treat.

The high protein content and the high calcium content are great for the overall growth of your chickens. When your chickens are molting, feeding them with scrambled eggs can help with the process.

Also, when chickens are sick or injured, feeding them with scrambled eggs can do a lot of good. Scrambled eggs can give them the protein boost they need to recover and heal quickly.

Can Chickens Eat Raw Eggs

Chickens can eat raw eggs. But you should never feed them raw eggs, or you may end up losing a lot.

Feeding chickens with raw eggs will make them develop a taste for them. Now, this means they’ll start eating their own eggs. If they start eating their own eggs, you will not get as many eggs as you used to from them.

So, as much as possible, ensure that when you feed eggs to chickens, they are well-cooked. Cook the eggs so there is no raw egg taste, even a little taste may prompt them to start eating the raw ones.

Can Chickens Eat the Eggshell

Chickens can eat the eggshell too. But you must be cautious if you want to do this. Do not leave the eggshells unbroken.

If they develop this taste, they will start pecking at the eggs they lay. The consequence of this is that they’ll damage their own eggs and reduce productivity. If this happens, you lose.

To prevent this, bake the eggshells and grind them before you feed the chickens. You can feed them just ground eggshells.

Alternatively, you can mix the eggshells with other treats like grit or even scrambled eggs.

Eggshells have very high calcium concentration (calcium makes up about 90 – 95 % of an eggshell). So, giving young hens regular eggshell treats can be very useful as they transition to being layers.

Can Chickens Eat Boiled Eggs

Your chickens will love boiled eggs too. Like every other form of egg you feed them, boiled eggs are very nutritious. When feeding them boiled eggs, ensure you remove the shells.

As long as there are no shells in the boiled egg treat, the chickens will not be prompted to eat raw eggs. You can serve the boiled eggs whole, but mashing them up is preferable.

Can Baby Chicks Eat Egg?

Eggs are one of few high protein treats that can be fed to baby chicks. In this case, scrambled eggs seem to be picked up by them the easiest. Egg can be an excellent and nutritious treat to give your young chicks at any age.

Keep in mind, though, that the eggs should not be seasoned or have eggshell added to them. If you have added things like salt and pepper, it’s best to save those eggs for your adult birds.

Just plain scrambled eggs make a perfect treat for baby chicks.

How to Stop Chickens From Feeding on Eggs

So, somehow your chickens have grown a taste for raw eggs. You are losing eggs to this habit, and you don’t know what to do.

The following are a few tips that can help stop your chickens from feeding on eggs:

Feed them enough calcium and protein.
Collect the eggs often, so you reduce their chances of eating the eggs.
Make the nesting boxes slanted, so the eggs roll away as they are laid.
Place hard items that look like eggs in their nest to discourage them from pecking. For instance, you can place a golf ball in the nest. When they peck at the golf ball, they won’t get the usual sweet stuff they get. So, they are discouraged.
You may also keep the nest box dark, so they won’t see the eggs. If they do not see the eggs, chances are they won’t eat them.

Although raw and cooked eggs are great treats for chickens, avoid giving them raw treats. By giving them raw eggs, you will encourage them to eat the eggs they lay. Eating the eggs they lay will affect the number of eggs you get from them.

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Look up chicken-or-egg question in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The chicken or the eggcausalitydilemma is commonly stated as the question, 'which came first: the chicken or the egg?' The dilemma stems from the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens. 'Chicken-and-egg' is a metaphoric adjective describing situations where it is not clear which of two events should be considered the cause and which should be considered the effect, to express a scenario of infinite regress, or to express the difficulty of sequencing actions where each seems to depend on others being done first. Plutarch posed the question as a philosophical matter in his essay 'The Symposiacs', written in the 1st century CE.^[1]^[2]

Ancient paradox[edit]

The question represents an ancient folk paradox addressing the problem of origins and first cause.^[3]Aristotle, writing in the fourth century BCE, concluded that this was an infinite sequence, with no true origin.^[3] Plutarch, writing four centuries later, specifically highlighted this question as bearing on a 'great and weighty problem (whether the world had a beginning)'.^[4] In the fifth century CE, Macrobius wrote that while the question seemed trivial, it 'should be regarded as one of importance'.^[4]

By the end of the 16th century, the well-known question seemed to have been regarded as settled in the Christian world, based on the origin story of the Bible. In describing the creation of animals, it allows for a first chicken that did not come from an egg. However, later enlightenment philosophers began to question this solution.^[4]

Scientific resolutions[edit]

Although the question is typically used metaphorically, evolutionary biology provides literal answers, made possible by the Darwinian principle that species evolve over time, and thus that chickens had ancestors that were not chickens,^[4] similar to a view expressed by the Greek philosopher Anaximander when addressing the paradox.^[3]

If the question refers to eggs in general, the egg came first. The first amniote egg—that is, a hard-shelled egg that could be laid on land, rather than remaining in water like the eggs of fish or amphibians—appeared around 312 million years ago.^[5] In contrast, chickens are domesticated descendants of red junglefowl and probably arose little more than eight thousand years ago, at most.^[6]

If the question refers to chicken eggs specifically, the answer is still the egg,^[7] but the explanation is more complicated. The process by which the chicken arose through the interbreeding and domestication of multiple species of wild jungle fowl is poorly understood, and the point at which this evolving organism became a chicken is a somewhat arbitrary distinction. Whatever criteria one chooses, an animal nearly identical to the modern chicken (i.e., a proto-chicken) laid a fertilized egg that had DNA identical to the modern chicken (due to mutations in the mother's ovum, the father's sperm, or the fertilised zygote).^[8]^[4]^[9]^[10] Put more simply by Neil deGrasse Tyson: 'Which came first: the chicken or the egg? The egg—laid by a bird that was not a chicken.'^[11]

It has been suggested that the actions of a protein found in modern chicken eggs may make the answer different.^[9]^[10] In the uterus, chickens produce ovocleidin-17 (OC-17), which causes the formation of the thickened calcium carbonate shell around their eggs. Because OC-17 is expressed by the hen and not the egg, the bird in which the protein first arose, though having hatched from a non-reinforced egg, would then have laid the first egg having such a reinforced shell: the chicken would have preceded this first 'modern' chicken egg.^[9]^[10] However, the presence of OC-17 or a homolog in other species, such as turkeys,^[12] and finches^[13] suggests that such eggshell-reinforcing proteins are common to all birds,^[14] and thus long predate the first chickens.

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^ ^a^b^cSorensen, Roy (2003). A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 4–11.
^ ^a^b^c^d^eFabry, Merrill (2016-09-21). 'Now You Know: Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?'. Time. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
^Benton, Michael J.; Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2007-01-01). 'Paleontological Evidence to Date the Tree of Life'. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24 (1): 26–53. doi:10.1093/molbev/msl150. ISSN0737-4038. PMID17047029.
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^Sorensen, Roy A. (1992). 'The Egg came before the chicken'. Mind. 101 (403): 541–542. doi:10.1093/mind/101.403.541.
^Breyer, Melissa (2013-02-11). 'Finally answered! Which came first, the chicken or the egg?'. Mother Nature Network. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
^ ^a^b^cZushi, Yo (27 February 2017). 'Which came first: the chicken or the egg?'. NewStatesman.com.
^ ^a^b^c'Which came first, the chicken or the egg? British scientists claim to have solved the mystery'. NBCnews.com. 14 July 2010.
^Neil deGrasse Tyson (2013-01-28). 'Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? The Egg – laid by a bird that was not a Chicken'. Twitter. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
^Mann, Karlheinz; Mann, Matthias (2013). 'The proteome of the calcified layer organic matrix of turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) eggshell'. Proteome Sci. 11 (1): 40. doi:10.1186/1477-5956-11-40. PMC3766105. PMID23981693.
^Mann, Karlheinz (2015). 'The calcified eggshell matrix proteome of a songbird, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)'. Proteome Sci. 13: 29. doi:10.1186/s12953-015-0086-1. PMC4666066. PMID26628892.
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