Do free ranging chicken get naural calcium?

[HenOnAJuneBug]

sounds like why I no longer have any weeds and why my chickens keep trying to break into the neighbours yard he has loads of dandelion weeds LOL!

Depending on the time of year, mine love dandelion, broadleaf plantain (also high in calcium), and comfrey.

 

[theoldchick]

sounds like why I no longer have any weeds and why my chickens keep trying to break into the neighbours yard he has loads of dandelion weeds LOL!

 

[Mysimplewyominglife]

seriously tho watching the hubby try to herd them back into our yard is funny as heck!

 

[SuperMyke]

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!

 

[sbhkma]

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.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

All of my chickens free range during the day and are fed a layer, but I always keep a bowl of oyster or egg shell out for them. They don't go though a ton of it, but they definitely eat it.

 

[bobbi-j]

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.