EXCUSE ME, where is the shell, ma’am?!?

[aart]

We usually give them egg shells too!
But now I’m considering putting them both in a bowl separate from their regular feeder

Calcium supplements should always be in a separate feeder.

32oz salsa jar...ziptied to HC wall.

 

[korpse]

Calcium supplements should always be in a separate feeder.

32oz salsa jar...ziptied to HC wall.

That’s a smart idea!! What do you give yours??

 

[aart]

What do you give yours??

Shown in the pic is just some crushed chicken eggs shells, at the time another same container had OS. Now I just mix them for both containers.
I feed an all flock feed because I always have a male present, and often non-laying birds.

 

[Iluveggers]

Calcium supplements should always be in a separate feeder.

32oz salsa jar...ziptied to HC wall.

In my dense brain, how do the chickens access it in the salsa jar, is there holes in the bottom somewhere?

 

[korpse]

Shown in the pic is just some crushed chicken eggs shells, at the time another same container had OS. Now I just mix them for both containers.
I feed an all flock feed because I always have a male present, and often non-laying birds.

I’m just worried that my girls won’t eat the OS if it’s not mixed in their food and I don’t think we get enough eggshells to just do eggshells but I’ll try it!! My sister is generally the decision maker on food, so she’s always done layer food for everyone I’m the neurotic one that’s always worried about everyone’s health and diet haha!

 

[korpse]

In my dense brain, how do the chickens access it in the salsa jar, is there holes in the bottom somewhere?

It blends in with the rest of the jar in the pic, but there actually is a hole in the middle!!

 

[Iluveggers]

It blends in with the rest of the jar in the pic, but there actually is a hole in the middle!!

Ohhh I see it now! Thank you!

 

[korpse]

Ohhh I see it now! Thank you!

Of course!

 

[korpse]

UPDATE: So I’m giving Ms. Chad a concoction of cottage cheese, oyster shell, and meal worms. I think this little jerk is actually PICKING the oyster shell out, putting them in the ground, and continuing to eat the worms and cottage cheese

The sass in those eyes​

 

[rosemarythyme]

UPDATE: So I’m giving Ms. Chad a concoction of cottage cheese, oyster shell, and meal worms. I think this little jerk is actually PICKING the oyster shell out, putting them in the ground, and continuing to eat the worms and cottage cheese

Try crushing the oyster shell into powder (or sift some out from a batch of oyster shell, I save the powder at the bottom of my dispenser.) And then stirring that in to a small amount of wet feed or your special concoction.

I have one that is super nitpicky and won't even take oyster shell powder mixed in with fermented feed any more, so now I mix it in with wet layer mash - guess it blends in better?