Raw or cooked eggs?

[Jade Conley]

should I feed raw or cooked eggs?

 

[Jeremyxb12]

you can feed both but most parents feed their Gus' cooked.

 

[AlphaAlpha]

I read that raw chicken egg whites are not so healthy for tegus.... so just feed yolks or cook them.

 

[dpjm]

I read that raw chicken egg whites are not so healthy for tegus.... so just feed yolks or cook them.

This is due to a protein called avidin, which binds with biotin. The idea is that a biotin deficiency could develop.

It also depends on where you get your eggs. Supermarket eggs need to be cooked, eggs from a reputable small farm might be ok raw. (This is not related to avidin, but to contamination issues.)

 

[Tiamat]

Cooked. Raw eggs can carry salmonella.