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  1. Blooie

    How Often to Feed Egg Shells

    You're welcome! And before I say anymore, when I say things in thread like these they are just the things that I do...doesn't mean they are always accurate, or the only way, or that I'm telling anyone what to do. I'm just telling you the way I feed or whatever - ultimately the choice is up to...
  2. Blooie

    How Often to Feed Egg Shells

    @MountainPeeps wrote a really good article recently on good eggs and the nutrition hens need to produce them. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-key-to-happy-hens-and-healthy-eggs
  3. Blooie

    How Often to Feed Egg Shells

    Actually I'm in northern Wyoming, MesMama. But close enough to Montana! I can see the Pryor Mountains from my kitchen window and they are in Montana - most of them anyway. The Big Horn Mountains from my east window in the kitchen. The Pryor Mountains looking north from the window above...
  4. Blooie

    How Often to Feed Egg Shells

    Exactly! I've heard to feed them cat food, or tuna or some such. But I have the eggs, eggs are considered animal protein, so what the heck! I'm basically a very lazy person, so whatever I can do to kill two birds with one stone (figuratively speaking, of course) I'm all over it. I worry...
  5. Blooie

    How Often to Feed Egg Shells

    Tell me about rural! My granddaughter told a friend of hers one time, when her friend asked how isolated we are out here, "Well, let me put it this way - when Gramma says we're going to Walmart I say, 'Oh, goodie! I'll pack the cooler!'" Two stoplights in our entire county - that's not two...
  6. Blooie

    How Often to Feed Egg Shells

    I am another who thinks egg shells don't provide quite as much calcium as oyster shell. I offer it in a separate container and they eat layer feed, just nibbling on the oyster shell when they need to. But I do like to boil up any older eggs I have in the fridge, crush 'em up shells and all, and...
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