Hello, I live in south Alabama and have access to LOTS of oyster shells....... I have them in my yard from cleaning fresh oysters..... Can I crush them for my chickens?
How do you grind your own oyster shells for chickens?????
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You'd need a heavy duty grinder. Probably a little expensive. Possibly more so than just buying bags of already ground oyster shell considering how little most flocks use. I imagine it's also a very messy process. My attempts to break up oyster shell into smaller pieces for quail resulted in white dust everywhere.
Could you put it in the driveway and drive over it? Then sweep up the bits?
I have done a few handfuls worth in a mortar and pestle. It's enough work that I don't think I would do it all the time but certainly not impossible.
Wash them thoroughly to remove any excess salt, put them in a heavy bag, such as burlap, and pound it with a metal mallet. Not to hard so you tear the bag or make powder. Just enough to crush them finely.
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