How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[BDutch]

I have 6 bantams and had 10 brown large organic eggs today, from the supermarket.
My bantams , all older than 3 have a winter break and don’t lay at the moment.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Thank you so much. They do, but she hasn’t been touching it. I put out a new red container of it to hopefully draw her over, and a calcium citrate to help boost her levels in the meantime.

Sometimes my ladies will stop eating their oyster shell. When they do, I'll usually sprinkle a little bit of scratch over the top of the oyster shell to tempt them. It seems to work pretty good.

 

[Smokerbill]

Sometimes my ladies will stop eating their oyster shell. When they do, I'll usually sprinkle a little bit of scratch over the top of the oyster shell to tempt them. It seems to work pretty good.

That's sort of what I do. I mix either crushed eggshells or oyster shell (about 1/4 cup) with scratch grains in an old peanut butter jar and give that to them most evenings before they hit the roosting bar for the night.

They seem to really like the eggshells. Not so much the reconstituted oyster shell/coral chunks. Wish I could find real, honest to goodness crushed oyster shells.

 

[Jenbirdee]

3 duck 1 chicken

 

[BockBockChick]

Three out of four for me today.

** EDIT ** I just went out to say good night to them, and we are four for four!

 

[thecatumbrella]

Sometimes my ladies will stop eating their oyster shell. When they do, I'll usually sprinkle a little bit of scratch over the top of the oyster shell to tempt them. It seems to work pretty good.

That's sort of what I do. I mix either crushed eggshells or oyster shell (about 1/4 cup) with scratch grains in an old peanut butter jar and give that to them most evenings before they hit the roosting bar for the night.

They seem to really like the eggshells. Not so much the reconstituted oyster shell/coral chunks. Wish I could find real, honest to goodness crushed oyster shells.

Awesome ideas, thank you!

 

[Jakemedic]

We were blessed with 9 eggs over 2 days.

 

[16 and me]

That's sort of what I do. I mix either crushed eggshells or oyster shell (about 1/4 cup) with scratch grains in an old peanut butter jar and give that to them most evenings before they hit the roosting bar for the night.

They seem to really like the eggshells. Not so much the reconstituted oyster shell/coral chunks. Wish I could find real, honest to goodness crushed oyster shells.

i found a large 50 lb bag of them at our local co-op (Canada) because mine didn't like the "fake" chunks either (that's just how they seem to me) I took someone's advice and serve back all my eggshells crushed, and now they seldom eat the real crushed oystershells - just eggshells!

 

[16 and me]

1 lovely blue egg today. Watchin the calendar... Just a few more days and we start gaining daylight instead of losing it!

 

[BockBockChick]

Thank you so much. They do, but she hasn’t been touching it. I put out a new red container of it to hopefully draw her over, and a calcium citrate to help boost her levels in the meantime.

I feed them back their crushed eggshells. Whenever we have shrimp, I will bake the shells until they are crispy and crush those. I mix the eggshells, shrimp shells, and oyster shells together, then add a bit to their food. I used to feed it separately, but they seem to think it's great fun to flick it out all over the place and hardly eat any that way.