how to "serve" grit & oyster shell

[Happy Chooks]

I nailed a sour cream container to the wall at an angle. It works great!

 

[Boo-Boo's Mama]

I'm cheap...use tuna can screwed to the post by the feeder for the grit and another tuna can screwed to the post by the nesting boxes for the eggshells/oyster shell. I see more than my layers eating the oyster shell so am hoping I will have more visits to the nesting boxes very soon!

 

[cassie]

I use a couple of those metal rabbit feeders that are made to hang on the outside of the wire rabbit cages. I hang them in the chicken coop and they work great.

 

[felidaet]

I built a combination Oyster shell and Grit dispenser that is wall mounted that works great. There is a divider in the middle. one half is filled with oyster shell and the other half is filled with grit. I only have to fill if about once every 5 - 6 months for 15 hens. I built another one just like it for my second coop. I am guessing each side holds about 10 lbs or grit or oyster shell. (I bought a 50 lb bag of each).

 

[AZKat]

I put my oyster shell in a old plastic dog dish. The grit goes into a corner of the run in a pile.

 

[BeccaB00]

it doesnt matter. We put the grit in a pile on the floor of the pens. you can mix it with their feed or put it in a bowl. Just however

 

[Capt. Toddy]

Despite having ready access to shells, my birds have in the past, given me eggs that are very thin-shelled. My solution was to grind up some shell into a powder and mix it with the warm porridge I feed them every morning. It keeps them laying through winter (I'm in Aus.) and the shells thickened up quite nicely. Not that I've had to, but it would also be a good vector for supplying other dietary supplements.

Cheers

Rod

 

[racuda]

Quote:
Great idea!

 

[Timo]

"They" call it repurposing.

I call it finally using up some of that junk in the basement that you never threw away because you just knew you would need it one day.

 

[Timo]

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