feeding egg shells

[PattyO]

Could someone tell me the proper way to clean and prepare eggshells to feed back to the hens.

 

[welasharon]

I let them air dry then smash them up and feed them. Some people bake them first....I'm too lazy. The chickens don't care either way.

 

[PattyO]

do you wash them out and remove the membrane?

 

[GoldenSparrow]

I am not sure if this is the right way, but

I put the egg shells on a cookie pan, and put them in the oven for a few minutes. just so they become brittle.
then I crush them up and mix with the chicken feed

I wash the out side of the shell, but leave every thing else.

 

[PattyO]

thank you. Do you bake them to remove bacteria?

 

[welasharon]

Don't wash them either....chickens eat way worse stuff from the ground.

 

[King Bertie]

I don't clean them, I just put them in the oven for a wee while when I'm cooking something else and then crush them up and give them to the chooks.

 

[PattyO]

Thanks for the info

 

[birdmomma]

actually I zap them in the microwave for a couple minutes and then pulverize them in the blender - makes it easy to get them to a mixable size.

 

[King Bertie]

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OOOo that's a great idea.