Alaska Chicken Lover's Soup for the Cold!!

[AkTomboy]

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I have for years I either put them in my homemade flock blocks or let them dry on the counter then put them in a ziplock bag and let the crib midget beat them with a hammer untill they are super tiny chunks or powder and just dump that on my feed. Just my two pennies I dont ever let any chunk be big enough it still is rounded like an egg, just incase they think to try the real thing.

 

[Wolfwoman]

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I have for years I either put them in my homemade flock blocks or let them dry on the counter then put them in a ziplock bag and let the crib midget beat them with a hammer untill they are super tiny chunks or powder and just dump that on my feed. Just my two pennies I dont ever let any chunk be big enough it still is rounded like an egg, just incase they think to try the real thing.

Same here, cept I beat on em myself... therapy ya know.

 

[EHaus]

Okay, this is good to know... I just didn't know if heating the eggshells would deplete the calcium, or mess with them in some way. DD rolls over them with a rolling pin while they're in a plastic baggie. I think she likes the crunching sound.

 

[Mrs MIA]

I put them in a dish on the furnace to try... they're less mess if they're dried out, and easier to crush.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Mine go in a grocery bag lined gallon sized bucket by the stove.
I keep a small wooden kraut pounder in it as well, and every morning, prior to adding more shell, I give them a smooshing.
I actually keep mine for the garden. They go under the squash transplants to prevent blossom end rot.
Chickens get oyster shell.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

GRIT ALERT FOR ALL OF YOU

AIH has 60 pound sacks of pea gravel for $6.99
The gravel is just perfect for the chooks.
No more will we be spend $30 for granite or need to scrounge the river beds.

 

[EHaus]

Aih?

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Alaska Industrial in Wasilla

 

[BirdBrain]

AIH in Anchorage is on Old Sewared north of International drive.

 

[EHaus]

Oh! Okay, I know where that is. Thanks! How are you, Carmen?