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Eggs do not have to be cooked, infact I believe its better raw - no one is boiling them in the wild. The idea behind cooking the eggs is that the heating absorbs the avidin which binds biotin leading to a biotin deficiency but for a deficiency to occur, the animal would have to have a diet made up of almost only eggs for some time. So if eggs are just an every now and then thing, raw would be healthier as cooking anything kills nutrients. Mine love raw quail egg, whole with shell.

[QUOTE="SnakeCharmr728, post: 143925, member: 1234"] Eggs do not have to be cooked, infact I believe its better raw - no one is boiling them in the wild. The idea behind cooking the eggs is that the heating absorbs the avidin which binds biotin leading to a biotin deficiency but for a deficiency to occur, the animal would have to have a diet made up of almost only eggs for some time. So if eggs are just an every now and then thing, raw would be healthier as cooking anything kills nutrients. Mine love raw quail egg, whole with shell. [/QUOTE]

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