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Yes, it does. Feed it as a treat and vary what you feed every day. Good point!
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To the person who claims that it's not that my hens don't like oystershell, that it's just that their bodies don't need it, that doesn't make sense, because you said the same about them eating back their own eggshells-- that they won't do so unless they need the calcium..
Then how come, when I present them with both oystershell and eggshell, they will snarf the eggshell and turn up their noses at the oystershell? They never eat oystershell but they will always eat their eggshells when offered them. So apparently they must like the eggshells and not the oystershell.
And they both laid soft shelled eggs this morning, so they must need the calcium, which they are not eating enough of. They will be 23 weeks old on Tuesday.
I don't buy the bit that chickens will always eat just what they need. I've read too much research about how chickens are bred to eat and eat and become fat for intended slaughter, even when they are pet chickens you wish to keep alive as long as possible.. I believe you have to carefully monitor their diets or they will often succumb to Fatty Hemorrhagic Liver Disease.