I'd mentioned to my friend, Gail that I add chopped boiled eggs (shell & all) to the ducks & geese diet. Every so often I'll chop one for my lizards (a pair of juvenile green iguanas & a pair of adult bearded dragons) or add one to my dogs' food or eat one myself (boiled, fried or scrambled) every once in a while. Those shells I boil again, then bake in a low heat oven (about 250 F) and grind up to add to the birds' & lizards' diets as extra calcium. For the birds I just crush into small pieces about like coarse salt, the lizards' almost to a dust.
Seems she did some online research and found that for people our age (mid 50's) the best part of an egg for us is the shell! The yolk has too much bad cholesterol, the albumen (white) is okay but the calcium in the shell is really what we need for our bones & teeth.
They should be prepared as above for the lizards... boiled, baked and ground into a powder. Yes, I can buy calcium tabs at any store but why throw away what I already have and buy some that comes in a tablet form?
By the way, Vlad & Bella my canine children will be 8 human years in August this year so extra calcium won't hurt them either. 8 x 7 = 56 so they're the same age as I am!
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