Do free ranging chicken get naural calcium?

I add calcium as an option but I also save the old egg shells after I have made some scrambled eggs for breakfast. I crush them up in a zip lock baggie and then dump them out onto the floor of the run. Once in a while I will toss in an egg broken for them to eat. They usually eat the entire thing. Gone... GOne ... GONE!
 
My free range part of the day. I always have a bowl of oyster shell for them in the run. I've seen them go to the run, eat some shell, then go up to the coop nest box and lay. Or go lay then stop and gobble some oyster shell on their way back out to forage.
 
I'm kind of an, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" kind of person. When my chickens are free ranging, their eggs are always nice and hard. Almost too hard, sometimes. So I don't worry about it. I never offer oyster shell in the free ranging months.
 

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