New "chikkin tender" in the dooryard

[Ed Becka]

We are in the South Texas Coastal Brush Country. I have raised "egg chickens" before on a very small scale, but since moving into a more rural area we decided to go at it. Our first batch is a couple years old and were heavily attritted by a racoon until I ambushed it one night. This past spring we invested in twenty-odd pullets (two have turned out to be cockerels so far) and they are now teenagers and laying fairy and pullet eggs. The planters that I raised chilis in last year have been taken over by wild purslane, and besides putting a bit of it in my smoothies, I've been feeding it out as a treat. The girls all love it, so I was wondering about the "actual factual" of oxalate affecting my birds' eggshells, and I joined BYC.

 

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[CherishedFowlGuardian]

Welcome!

 

[BoundlessLove]

Hi and Welcome!
Glad to have you here at Backyard Chickens!

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

 

[GreenJay]

Howdy from south Texas!
South Texas coastal brush country, sounds like we're neighbors

 

[GodLovesU]

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[BigBlueHen53]

Hi, Ed! Welcome! Now you've got me interested. So what is the "actual factual" of oxalate in the eggdhells? I'm convinced chickens know what's good for them and what isn't, in the natural world, so I'm interested in your findings. (Styrofoam and bits of hardware are not natural, so are exempt from my conviction, lol.)

 

[Debbie292d]

Hiya, and welcome to BYC!

I googled it and found the same as you did, that's it's fine and can help with egg quality.

We're glad you're here!

 

[Tookie]

Hello and welcome to BYC!