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Message: <blockquote data-quote="corvidear" data-source="post: 3019344" data-attributes="member: 127239">When preparing egg for feeding exclude the white. The yoke is higher protein and less wasted space in the little critters gut . Boil it in the shell , less protein lost in the cooking process . fewer by products in the finished product . Watch the wild birds and particularly corvids , they tend to leave the white if enough eggs are available .The magpies here punch a single hole in the side of a chicken egg and tip it with the hole down just to drain off the white before they tip it back up and finish off the yoke or carry it off . as for the political argument about what to do with the little one , if you cant help it find some one that can pronto .In my opinion :If you can help it and no one else is there to do so then by all means do so . If you screw it up it will die , if you do not help it then it will die , if you get it right it will live . My guess is you are in love and do not wish to trust anyone else with the little critter. Corvids are that way , that is because they are so much like us in the ways that count.Please remember that at times the gift of adoption is the best option for the child's well being .Corvidear</blockquote>