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Making Egg Shell Powder (calcium) For The Cats

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I’ve been reading up on cat nutrition and trying to make my home-cooked food as balanced as possible.

Cats are obligate carnivores and they need to eat meat, but they also need organs as well as bones (for calcium). I’ve heard horror stories of cats being fed only on muscle meat alone and they end up with brittle bones. In fact, the vet told me that one such cat fell down and broke her bones quite badly – she was fed only chicken breast meat and nothing else.

Muscle meat alone is not enough.

I’ve been trying to incorporate raw bones into my home-cooked food recently. Of all the Inside Cats, only Tabs, Cleo, Bunny and Indy are willing to chew on raw bones. Cow, Tiger and Poldrey Hepburn just stare at the raw meat and look at me. Not all the PatioCats eat raw bones too.

Besides bones, another source of calcium for cats is crushed egg shells. I’ve been meaning to make an attempt at this.

So, I collected about a dozen egg shells and made my first attempt today.

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I washed all the egg shells, but kept the membrane intact. There is a lot of nutrition in the egg membrane so do not remove that. In fact, I’m presently taking an egg membrane supplement for my arthritic knees.

Youtube says we should boil the egg shells in water but I skipped this part.

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Next, I baked the egg shells in 200 degrees in the oven, for 10 minutes.

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Then, I got out my Electrolux Cruzo.

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Ooh…it’s working!!

I’m pretty hopeless in the kitchen so this is a great success for me….ha ha.

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Tadah!!

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Here we go….from a dozen egg shells.

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Mixed it with the home-cooked food.

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And the cats have their daily dose of calcium today!

You might be interested in this article: http://feline-nutrition.org/nutrition/dont-let-calcium-phosphorous-ratios-scare-you

It is widely known that cats have a dietary need for both calcium and phosphorous. Calcium is required by the body, not only for bones, but also for muscle control and ion balance. Phosphorous is important in the formation of bones and teeth, and also plays vital roles in cell membranes and energy processes.¹ Phosphorus is a structural part of cells; this is why meat tissue has high levels of it. Phosphorus is attracted to calcium, forming calcium phosphate, which is what gives bones and teeth their strength.

Just as important, and possibly even more so, is the ratio of calcium to phosphorous in the diet.

Calcium to phosphorus ratios are typically written like this: 1.1:1, with the first number representing calcium and the second phosphorus. The ideal ratio of calcium to phosphorous in the feline diet is approximately 1.1:1.

And this is an important fact:

Daily balance is not as vital as the overall balance over time, in weeks to months.

Read more at http://feline-nutrition.org/nutrition/dont-let-calcium-phosphorous-ratios-scare-you
Follow us on Twitter: @FelineNutrition

The key word is OVERALL BALANCE, achieved over weeks or months. Not daily balance.

Now, that is a relief!

Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2017/01/04/making-egg-shell-powder-..

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