Lobster shells

[aart]

I use naturally shed dungeness shells. They wash up on the beaches year round, here. Sometimes the chickens get to them before I've even had a chance to wash them off (mischievous Barred Rocks), and they can peck them apart. They also get whatever oyster shells that the racoons and ravens drop around the property. I throw them on the driveway to get crushed. I very rarely have to pay for my flocks calcium.

That may be an entirely different animal(haha!) figuratively literally.
The lobster shells, especially legs and claws, and snow and king crab legs I've had are very thick, hard and sharp.
Have cut my hands on them more than once, no way I'd give them to the chooks.

Guess you've got to use some discretion and common sense.

 

[birds4kids]

If too hard for them to process they probably wont be able to peck it apart enough to ingest much.

 

[kardent]

Someone just told me that you can give your chickens lobster shells and the "guts" from the shelling process. We are having fresh lobsters for Christmas and I am wondering if this is a safe thing to do?

I am from a fishing village, our main export is lobster so lobster is something weve always had alot of the old people always fed their chickens crushed lobster shells and I do too seems to help with good strong eggs and they love it. its something I always have alot of though. May be a older thread but it never seemed to do any harm and ive seen them fed the shells my entire life.