Cooked eggs for kittens

Hi, I'm trying to build the immune system and put some weight on my little foster kitten Fred who has been through an incredible amount of hardship so far in his young life; he's had just about everything he could have go wrong.   Starting to see improvement - very very gradually.   He absolutely loves scrambled and hard cooked eggs, and I'm checking to make sure this is a good thing for him to have.  Sounds logical to me that it would be, since they're so high in protein, but just wanting others' opinions as to whether or not this is a good thing for him to have on a regular basis, at least for now.  Thanks!!

Eggs are great for humans and cats because they're rich in protein. In fact, many books that promote natural cat diets strongly encourage owners to give their cats eggs. After all, in the wild, cats would occasionally raid the nests of birds. Vets agree that cooked eggs, such as scrambled or hard-boiled, make an excellent and nutritious treat for a cat.

However, although some natural diet books recommend raw eggs -- which provide more nutritional benefits and are what a cat would get in the wild -- Dr. Colleran again says this is too dangerous. Salmonella and E. coli have become too much of a risk. "Not only do you not want to make your cat sick," she notes, "but you don't want to bring those kinds of organisms into your environment." This can be a problem if, for instance, something harmful passes through the animal but remains in its excrement.

Another concern is that eggs are very allergenic. Dr. Colleran recommends watching for manifestations of an allergic reaction if you do feed your cat eggs.

The lady that rescued Patches as a tiny kitten cooked eggs for her kitties a couple of times a week.  She knew a lot about animals and kind of blended alternative ideas with traditional ideas.  She would just scramble eggs in the morning and took the kitties portion out before using salt and pepper.

As P3 says, they're an excellent source of protein. They're also rich in choline, healthy omega 3s, and vitamin D. But a growing kitten needs a balanced diet with proper calcium in the correct proportion to phosphorus (the two work together with vitamin D and magnesium for bone development). Eggs are also rich in phosphorus with very little calcium. So to keep the diet properly balanced, other than for a week or so to put some weight on, it's important to limit the amount of nutritionally unbalanced food to 15% or less of the total diet. So eggs can be fed as a small treat daily.

For a kitten it would be very easy to unbalance his diet if you fed even one egg a day, since a little guy isn't going to be eating a whole lot altogether so that would be a significant percentage of his intake. But a small spoonful every day should be fine . The yolks have all the nutrition---the whites are basically pure protein---so more yolk than white, preferably.