Feeding a squirrel an egg?

Hello, we recently got a squirrel in our garden that we feed every now and then. It says online that squirrels eat eggs, so I was thinking about feeding the squirrel a raw chicken egg so it has something to eat during the winter. Is that okay, or is it bad for the squirrel?

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Fuchssprung
4 years ago

With a raw chicken egg, a squirrel can’t start much. It has too much fluid and so the squirrel will waste 95%. It’s better if you cook the egg and halve it.

Bernhard554
4 years ago

I would rather offer cooked

herja
4 years ago

Meal of fruit and young birds

Squirrels live mainly of high-energy fruits and seeds. Especially popular are beech, oak, pine, maple and spruce, but also chestnuts and nuts. In addition, they do not spoil buds, flowers, galls, mushrooms and animal food. Before winter, squirrels eat only a little winter scarf and instead hide food in depots that they plunder in food bottlenecks.

https://www.nabu.de/tiere-und- Pflanzen/saeugetiere/nager/04566.html

Buckykater
4 years ago

Yes Squirrels sometimes eat eggs and even young birds when they find a nest and get there this can happen. That’s why smaller birds sneak even when they have a nest nearby and see a squirrel as with other nest robbers. You can give them an egg. There are also special squirrel food.

Moorhuhn68
2 years ago
Reply to  Buckykater

I’d rather mix squirrel food myself. Our cut out half of the finished mixture