Can you feed this to chicks???

[Nut Lemon]

Hi, my chick has pasty butt, so we fed her a hard boiled egg. My sister, Cat Water (on BYC you can PM her with questions), saw the shell of the egg, and she wondered if you can feed the chicks that. So the ultimate question is, Can you feed the chicks the shell of the egg? Some are 1 week old, and the rest are 3 weeks old.

-Nut Lemon

 

[chicmom]

Hello-

You don't want to feed chicks eggshells. The chick food has all the nutrition that they need. Extra calcium can be harmful during the growing stage.

But, you can crush up your egg shells (some people sterilize them by baking them) and feed them back to your laying hens, because they do need extra calcium for laying those strong egg shells.