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Hens are unlikely to eat too much oyster shell. It can happen, but it's not common. When a hen doesn't get enough calcium, her body takes some from her bones to make eggshells, and eventually she just makes softshell eggs and has weak bones too. If your hens were not eating the other oyster...

"Added calcium" is not always a good thing. Too much calcium is bad. Too little calcium is bad. The commercial feed is supposed to have the right amount. You can provide a dish of oyster shell, so the chickens can get more calcium if they need it. Oyster shell is good for this because it had...

If you want to offer a whole cabbage, I would offer a whole cabbage and watch. Unless you have a really enormous flock, they will not eat that whole cabbage all at once. They will eat some, and go do other things, and the whole cabbage may actually last for several days. Even when the cabbage...

And I can get the same reaction with a dish of wet chicken food (their usual food plus water.) But of course neither the pellets, nor the wet chicken food, needs to be limited, even though they count as "treats" if you judge by the chickens' response.