Stoney Meadow Maple
Crowing
My 2 new Welsh Harlequins are maybe 2 ish years old, and seem fairly well integrated at this point, they have been here perhaps a month, at first they were little egg laying machines, but it has tapered off lately out of 9 hens i get 7-8 eggs, that wouldn’t bother me, but recently i have found a couple soft shell eggs in various water vessels. Once it was in their pool, once in another pool, this morning I found their water bucket overturned (which has never happened before) and there was a broken soft shell in it. Because of my drake i have always offered oyster shells free choice all day and night, the feed they were being fed was a layer feed with calcium, my worry is that they don’t know to go for the calcium i offer, they won’t touch any of the treats i give, peas, mealworms, various garden offerings, etc. they love earth worms after a rain, but those are tough to wrangle enough of for regular treats. Point is i dont know how I would get calcium glucosamate into them.
any suggestions here? Either to teach them about oyster shells or to get them to try treats so i can dose them with calcium?
any suggestions here? Either to teach them about oyster shells or to get them to try treats so i can dose them with calcium?