calcium

Disclosure: first time taking care of quails Hi again. Yesterday night I went into the adult quail enclosure to collect eggs and I noticed one adult female on her side near the water cups. I picked her up with no resistance from her so I knew something was wrong. Today, her wing she was laying...

I am currently supplementing my ducklings with Niacin with the BVS poultry pack that was sent with them from Metzer. I would like to begin mixing niacin into their food and was considering using human grade brewers yeast or nutritional yeast. All of these products list calcium in mg or...

My California white hen is about 1 year old as of this spring. She was laying eggs really good last fall but then winter came and they all slowed production way down. I never do anything to make them lay over winter. I like to give them a break for all their hard work. Now that it’s peak egg...

Hi! My pullet chick is 9 or 10 week old, and I am wondering when I should start feeding her eggshells for calcium. Also, before anyone points out, yes , I know I will mash it so it is not recognizable as an eggshell. Also please tell me the quantity I should feed them per day, and how many days...

When feeding purchased crashed oyster shell free choice, the egg shell thickness is "normal", may be tiny bit thicker than that of supermarket bought eggs. Our chickens are no big fans of oyster shells. However they go crazy about own baked & crashed egg shells or local crashed clam shells when...

hey all! I had a duck who had some egg issues so I gave her some calcium gluconate. Worked like a charm! However now I have this big bottle of calcium. It says it needs to be used within 24 hours, however its sealed, and I never put anything into the bottle. I poured what I needed out, filled my...

We have been feeding our hens eggshells we have saved for years from store purchased eggs (and later their own), but eventually have run out and had to buy crushed oyster shells. However it appears they don't like them very much. They used to gobble baked and hand crushed egg shells like...

I ordered some baby chicks awhile ago and they’re expected to get here on Thursday so I got Putin’s flockraiser for the baby chicks and the full grown ducks. I forgot to get oyster shell to go with and just barely ran out of layer feed and just got back from tractor supply. :barnie:he So before...

Hi All, I have 3 runner ducks now (5 weeks old). One has a very shaky leg for last two weeks, will stop if it repositions it’s self but generally starts shaking again. It. doesn’t have an issue walking, running etc other than the shake when standing. I’ve been giving it brewers yeast since I...

Hi All, Since I can't determine which of my five girls have started laying and which aren't, I am concerned that I have started ALL the girls on Layer feed but read that I could be hurting the girls who haven't started laying. I read in an article that only layers should get layer because the...

Can chickens eat human teeth? I can’t find this anywhere on the web. I have a whole bunch of my kids baby teeth and I’m wondering if they’d be appealing/ breakable/ provide calcium for hens. Anyone have knowledge or a guess about this? I think my kids would get a hoot out of feeding their own...

So, My 1.5 year old Pekin has always laid great, hard-shelled eggs with no blemishes. Lately, her shells have been rough, thin, and full of calcium deposits or rough build up bumps. I always thought those bumps meant too much calcium. But then, thin shells meant not enough. She gets one to two...

Hello all. I discovered that one of my hens is eating her own eggs. This has been going on for less than a week, though details are a bit hazy as friends were visiting and kids were collecting eggs. I believe it started with a soft shelled egg that became broken in nesting box. Today I heard...

A assume my Orpington hen has calcium deficiency, I’m not giving oyster shell right now but I’m gonna buy I’m just making sure because her sister had an internal laying problem that we had to put her down for. They also eat All Flock and not layer, we have so many poultry it’s just easier to...

I noticed a thin shell from one chicken Pinky, so I ramped up the calcium with yogurt, black fly larvae, and oyster shells. Their organic laying pellets and grain are for laying hens. She recovered quickly.

And I can't seem to help her. Our mallard duck has been egg bound for about 3 days now! She has been bound before and I fixed (or so I thought) the problem. She went a month without getting bound a second time. She's been eating the same food that she's always eaten, when she can that is. She...

I’ve been feeding a 19% broiler pellet with oyster shells on the side to my mixed flock because I want to avoid excessive calcium in my breeding Boys diets and it’s the closest thing I can get to an all flock feed. I Have broilers arriving Sunday as well. My pullets have been laying for about a...

Hi All, I’m a bit worried about my Olive egger. She was egg bound with a soft egg twice in the last couple months to the point where I gave her warm bath and brought her inside. Thankfully both times the rest came out. I added oyster shells in another dish to the coop (it’s in their food too)...

Hi friends, decided to put this matter into a separate thread and not append it to the spring-duckling thread because they are technically still ducklings but they look and behave like grown ups… There is a small bowl (3" pipe end-cap), filled with crushed oyster shells in the duck house to...